Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The public has the right to walk on even private beaches on the wet sand below high tide in most coastal states – but not in ...

In most coastal states, including New Hampshire, the public has the right to walk on even private beaches on the wet sand below high tide. Maine is one of just two coastal states where private ...

Accessing the least-crowded section of New York’s Lido Beach requires either money or insider knowledge. Anyone staying at one of the nearby hotels can walk through the lobby, and those living in a ...

The Colonial Ordinances of 1941-47 make it so the public is not allowed to walk on private beaches in Massachusetts above the low water tide. But private property owners technically cannot interfere ...