False Cape State Park Beach(False Cape Beach)

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near False Cape State Park Beach.  Blue Pete’s Restaurant is a 25-minute drive away and this waterfront restaurant offers delicious seafood, along with a variety of excellent American dishes including sandwiches, salads, pastas, and steaks.  Steinhilber’s is an upscale restaurant that is a 50-minute-drive away and is known for serving excellent steaks and seafood, along with a variety of other seasonal dishes including roast chicken, soup, and cottage pie.  FIREBREW Bar & Grill is a 27-minute drive away and serves many amazing dishes including pastas, seafood, burgers, sandwiches, flatbreads, and chicken.  Shorebreak Pizza & Taphouse is a 26-minute drive away and offers excellent pizzas, along with a variety of other dishes including burgers, salads, chicken wings, tacos, and sandwiches – this restaurant also offers excellent beer.  If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant near False Cape State Park Beach,The Bee & Biscuit is 25 minutes away by car and offers many amazing dishes for breakfast and lunch including  eggs, pancakes, wraps, sandwiches, salads, and oats.

If you are looking for a hotel near False Cape State Park Beach, there are many great nearby options within a 50-minute drive.  The 4-Star Cavalier Virginia Beach, Autograph Collection is a historic hotel that offers many amenities including a beach club, a spa, a bourbon distillery, a pool, multiple restaurants, a hot tub, gift shop, bike rental facilities, and a fitness center.  Another great upscale hotel is the 4-Star Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront that offers many amenities including multiple pools (including an infinity pool), fitness center, and a restaurant.  The 4-Star Delta Hotels by Marriott Virginia Beach Waterfront is another great upscale hotel that offers many amenities including a restaurant, a pool, a fitness center, rental facilities for bikes and watercraft, and a convenience store.  A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Beach Quarters Resort that offers many amenities including multiple pools, a fitness center, a sauna, a hot tub, and a rooftop terrace.  If you are looking for another good and affordable hotel near False Cape State Park Beach, the 3-Star Hampton Inn Virginia Beach-Oceanfront South offers many amenities including a pool, a fitness center, a restaurant, and complimentary breakfast.

False Cape State Park Beach has lifeguards on a seasonal basis.  In addition to lifeguards, this beach and the area around it have many amenities including hiking and biking trails, picnic areas, restrooms, observation areas, and a gift shop.  Dogs on leash are allowed at False Cape State Park Beach.  However, it is important to note that pets need to be transported to this beach through boat, canoe, or kayak because they are not allowed in the areas around this beach.

False Cape State Park Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, biking, hiking, fishing, wildlife watching, camping, swimming, kayaking, wildlife watching, canoeing, surf-skiing, paddleboarding, surfing, bodyboarding, boating, skimboarding, and scuba diving.

False Cape State Park Beach is ideal for beginner swimmers, kayakers, canoers, and surfers because the water here usually has manageable waves.  In addition, summer is considered to be a particularly ideal time for swimming near this beach.  Scuba divers also visit this beach to explore the underwater ruins of a ship named Clythia that sank nearby in 1894.

If you are planning to swim, kayak, canoe, scuba dive, or surf near False Cape State Park Beach, we recommend being careful because the water here is known to have unpredictable rip currents and strong waves.  In addition, sharks are also known to be in the water here.

If you like camping, False Cape State Park Beach offers a fun oceanfront tent camping experience.  You can visit False Cape State Park’s web page on Virginia State Parks’ website for more information regarding the camping regulations at False Cape State Park Beach.  If you like hiking and biking, the area near False Cape State Park Beach has many habitats including salt marshes, maritime forests, swamps, sand dunes, and woodlands that can be explored through hiking and biking trails.

If you like birdwatching, you can see many kinds of resident and migrating bird species around False Cape State Park Beach including geese, egrets, ibis, pelicans, terns, and herons.  If you like taking pictures with amazing views, False Cape State Park Beach offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the Atlantic Ocean, particularly during sunset and sunrise.

False Cape State Park Beach has a beach wheelchair for visitors with disabilities.  You can call the authorities at False Cape State Park by phone at (757) 426-7128 to know more about acquiring the beach wheelchairs

The beach and the state park received their name – False Cape – because many early explorers and sailors mistook this site for another separate nearby cape named Cape Henry.  In addition, False Cape State Park – within which False Cape State Park Beach is located – offers many fun things to explore including remnants of an abandoned settlement, a visitor center with interesting exhibits, and a gift shop.

There are many great attractions near False Cape State Park Beach within a 27-minute drive.  Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge that has a beach named Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Beach and it has many kinds of habitats including woodlands, scrubs, sand dunes, and wetlands – this refuge also has a visitor center and it also offers many fun activities including hiking, biking, wildlife watching, kayaking, canoeing, and fishing.  Little Island Park is a 122-acre waterfront recreational park that has two beaches named Little Island Park – North Beach and Little Island Park – South Beach and this park also offers many fun activities including swimming, surfing, bodyboarding, volleyball, kayaking, canoeing, picnicking, basketball, and tennis.  The Military Aviation Museum is known for having one of the largest collections of vintage military aircraft from World War 1 and World War 2.  This museum also hosts many fun events throughout the year including flight demonstrations and airshows and it also has a small dinosaur park.  Hunt Club Farm is a farm and education center that has many fun things to do and explore including a petting farm with domestic animals, an aviary, a treehouses-based playground, and fun pony rides.  Hunt Club Farm also offers fun events throughout the year including an Easter Egg Hunt, Halloween celebrations, and a harvest festival.  If you are looking for another attraction near False Cape State Park Beach,  Adventureworks is a zipline park that offers fun and thrilling ziplining sessions over Virginia Beach’s coastal wetlands.