Dunes Beach Day Use Area - Sandbanks Provincial Park

One of the best places in the area once the Fall season closes. The colors and trails remain vibrant. The landscape is very unique and offers a great time for photography. The photos attached are during sunrise in early November. The trail system offers a lot of scenery, but is very easy. If you are looking for something more challenge I would just run up and down the larger dunes in West Lake.

Have always wanted to go to Sandbanks and was not disappointed! Easy entry to this day use area and great options for beach, picnic, or walking trails. Walking the dunes was gorgeous and the dunes trail itself was interesting and well marked. The beach was beautiful with a good swimming area and plenty of space. Worth the visit be it spring, summer, or fall.

Dunes Beach was great. the beach is good but we went there to explore the sand dunes which were very plentiful and interesting, for the adventurous. very fine clean white sand.
we got there just after 10am and the parking lot wasn't full yet, but it got full pretty quickly after. it's better to go further west up on the beach dunes, a lot less people and lots of space with a beautiful view down West Lake.
will go back to see sunset next time.

The beach was a little smaller than expected but we found a nice area where it wasn't too busy so it was very nice! The water was clean enough that there were small fish near us when we were in the water. Pretty cool. And people were having fun running down the dunes and straight into the water. Overall a great place to go

Visited for our first time last Tuesday and arrived just before 9am (highly recommend getting in early) and had our pick of spots to set up for the day. Plenty of (flat) beach close to parking lot, restrooms, garbage/recycling cans, playground and canteen (canteen didn't happen to be open during our visit & hours weren't posted) or you can venture out into the gorgeous (steeper) dunes for quite a while. The water at the entrance of the beach is quite shallow for a while then (marked w buoys) has a steep drop off (great for cooling off in as the shallow water is quite warm). Awesome experience for young kids and adults, thankfully we packed an umbrella for shade, cooler w lunch/drinks and some beach toys. It was a windy day so the bugs weren't a bother, but we were warned of pesky sand flies. So lucky to have such a scenic beach so close by, can't wait to return!