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Fenwick Island is nestled between the Little Assawoman Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and offers the best beach in southern Delaware!
Generations of families have grown up on our beach swimming, body surfing,
building sand castles and chasing seagulls. Fenwick Island has been known as
“Fisherman’s paradise” for over 75 years, and fishermen can be seen daily on the
beach at sunrise casting for bluefish, rockfish, and flounder.
The Town of Fenwick Island is about a mile long and a half a mile wide, and is
home to several hundred full time residents who watch the population swell to a
few thousand every summer. Many of the town's beautiful single-family homes are
available for summer rental. Fenwick Island offers both fine dining and casual
family restaurants, a diverse assortment of retailers, and motels and hotels
that offer friendly and attentive service.
Just outside of town, to the north, is the Delaware Seashore State Park which
includes a bathhouse, food service and handicap access to the beach. The state
park gives the avid beach walker and bird watcher miles of expansive dunes and
distinctive mid-Atlantic coast scenery to observe. The Transpeninsular Line
marks Delaware’s southern border with Maryland on which the historic Fenwick
Lighthouse rests. Beyond that lays Ocean City, Maryland, with its celebrated
boardwalk and lively nightlife, is just a short bus ride away.
The beauty of the sunrise over the ocean is eclipsed only by the sunset over the
bay. The magic of Fenwick is that you can enjoy both simply by turning your
beach chair around at the end of the day.