Barrancas Beach

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Barrancas Beach. The Global Grill serves a variety of excellent gourmet dishes.  Cub’s Crawfish offers excellent seafood and Cajun dishes. This restaurant is famous for serving delicious crawfish. If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant near Barrancas Beach, Brother’s Bar-B-Q (also known as Brother’s BBQ) offers a variety of excellent barbecued dishes.

If you are looking for a hotel near Barrancas Beach, there are many great nearby options. The 4-star Hyatt Place Pensacola Airport is 30 minutes away by car. This hotel offers many amenities including a fitness center, a coffee/cocktail bar, a pool, and a 24/7 market cafe. A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star New World Inn - Downtown Pensacola that offers many amenities including a courtyard with a fountain and complimentary breakfast. If you are looking for another good and affordable hotel near Barrancas Beach, the 2-Star Holiday Inn Express Pensacola Downtown, an IHG Hotel offers many amenities including a fitness room, a pool, and complimentary breakfast.

Barrancas Beach and the area around it have many amenities including lifeguards, volleyball courts, a bath house, and multiple cabanas with barbecue spots.

Barrancas Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, fishing, wildlife watching, swimming, surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, skim boarding, bodyboarding, parasailing, jet-skiing, surf-skiing, water-skiing, kayaking, canoeing, and boating. If you are planning to enter the water near Barrancas Beach, we recommend being careful as it is known to have unpredictable rip currents. Depending on the time of the year, you can view many kinds of animals in the water near this beach including dolphins and sea turtles. If you are planning to fish in the water near Barrancas Beach, we recommend following the local fishing regulations.

Getting to Barrancas Beach is easy - the beach is located near 3875 Radford Boulevard, where a parking lot is also available nearby. It is important to note that as the park is situated within an operational naval air station, and you need to carry government-issued identification proof for security checks while accessing Barrancas Beach. Unfortunately, the beach is currently open on Saturdays and Sundays between 10 am to 6 pm. In addition, the beach is currently only open to local military personnel on active duty and their families only.

There are many attractions near Barrancas Beach. The nearby Fort Barrancas was initially built in the late 18th century and was a Confederate stronghold during the American Civil War. The fort offers visitors a unique insight into the United States’ military history.  Perdido Key Kids Park has a playground, a pavilion, and picnic areas. The National Naval Aviation Museum has more than 4,000 historical artifacts and around 150 restored aircraft from the United States Air Force, the Coast Guard, and the United States Marine Corps. The museum also has flight simulators and a giant digital theater. If you are looking for another attraction near Barrancas Beach, Pensacola Lighthouse and Maritime Museum has the historic Pensacola Lighthouse, which was built in the 19th century and is currently a part of the United States’ National Register of Historical Places. The nearby lighthouse keeper's quarters is now converted into a museum (named the Richard C. Callaway Museum) that offers interesting exhibits about local history and the Pensacola Lighthouse. As an interesting fact, the lighthouse has often been labelled as one of the most haunted lighthouses of the United States and ghost tours are frequently conducted on the lighthouse premises.