Regional Guide · 17 beaches

Delaware Bay Beaches

The Delaware Bay shoreline is a different animal from Delaware's Atlantic coast — calmer, quieter, and dotted with tiny bayside villages that live around horseshoe crab spawning, bird migration, and the slow rhythm of the tide. Communities like Slaughter Beach, Broadkill, Bowers, Pickering, and Kitts Hummock are on the MDE/DNREC monitoring map even when they're not on most travel guides. Lewes is the grandest; Prime Hook NWR the wildest. Water is generally calmer than the Atlantic, shallower, and warms earlier.