Flag Ponds Nature Park
Flag Ponds Nature Park is a beautiful and family-friendly park offering hiking trails through forested areas and relaxing beach access, known for fossil and shark teeth hunting. The park is wheelchair accessible with an accessible entrance and parking, includes picnic tables and public restrooms, and accepts various payment methods. It’s a popular spot for kids and nature lovers to explore and enjoy a peaceful outdoor experience.
Reviews
This is a great place! My kids and I have found so many fossils and teeth. The beach and water is calm, especially compared to some of the other beach accesses you can use at the cliffs. I find more bones and other types of fossils than I do large shark teeth, but you make up for the shark teeth size with the volume!
If you don’t mind walking a bit to reach the beach, this is the place for you. My family always finds fossilized shark teeth. Great for young children.
I’m from Florida and this is one of my favorite beaches I’ve ever been to. It’s very clean, not at all crowded when we went during the middle of the day on a weekend, and just a ton of shells on the shore to walk along and pick through. My wife even found a shark tooth on our walk, so highly recommend if you like looking for shells and teeth! The park doesn’t just have a beach, though, so if you’re looking for some beautiful forest to hike through there are several miles of trail within as well. We didn’t get a chance to try them out as we spent all our time at the beach, but they looked like a good time. It was also a very good price. If you’re from the same county it’s discounted, but even still it wasn’t much per car.
Beautiful park! You can go for a walk in the forest and around the ponds and afterward just relax at the beach. It’s a lot of fun to look for shark teeth, and it didn’t take us long to find some!
Great place for kids and families. We had lots of luck around low tide finding small shark teeth. It is a bit of a hike from the parking lot to the beach (about 3/4 of a mile-part of which is soft sand & would be tough for strollers or wheelchairs).