Beaches near Lakehouse

Your closest beaches

• Benllech — sandcastles, swimming and ice cream. Benllech is recommended as one of the best swimming beaches on the island: the sand slopes gently, so there’s no need to wear anything on your feet. It’s a 20-minute walk or a 5-minute drive from Lakehouse, busy in the school holidays and wonderfully quiet the rest of the year.
• Traeth Bychan — long beach days, and great for watersports.
• Lligwy — sandcastles and swimming.
• Moelfre — rock pooling and fishing. Fishing for mackerel off the rocks is popular.
• Llanddona — swimming and beach days, and dog friendly outside the summer restrictions (see below).
• Red Wharf Bay — walks, bird watching and dogs welcome. You won’t find much more sand than this. It isn’t really a swimming beach, though: the tide goes a long way out (you’ll only see the sea twice a day) and the water is quite shallow.

Further afield

North side

• Cemlyn — pebble hunting and birds.
• Church Bay — rock pools and sand.
• Llaneilian — one of our favourites for swimming at high tide.
• Bull Bay

West side

• Rhosneigr — surfing.
• Aberffraw — long beach days.

South side

• Newborough — long beach days and walks. You can head out to Llanddwyn and explore the old fishing cottages, but be prepared for challenges with parking.

Dog-friendly beaches

Seven Anglesey beaches have a seasonal dog restriction from 1 May to 30 September: Benllech, Llanddona, Trearddur Bay, Porth Dafarch, Beaumaris, Cemaes Bay and Llanddwyn (Newborough). Signs at each beach show the area where dogs are not allowed, and dogs can use the rest of the beach. On the promenades at Benllech, Cemaes Bay and Trearddur Bay, dogs must be kept on a lead during that period. Outside those dates the seasonal ban doesn’t apply, but please keep your dog under control, and clear up after it all year round.

The details are on the Isle of Anglesey County Council’s dog restrictions page. Rules can change, so check the signs on the day.

Dogs welcome all year

• Traeth Lligwy — a wide sandy beach with plenty of room for dogs to run and paddle, and very close by.
• Traeth Mawr, Aberffraw — a huge expanse of sand backed by dunes.
• Traeth Crigyll, Rhosneigr — a long sandy beach that’s popular with walkers.
• Porth Nobla — a quieter beach with lovely coastal scenery.
• Traeth Lleiniog (Lleiniog Beach Picnic Site) — sheltered and usually less crowded.
• Traeth Moelfre — great for a coastal walk with your dog.
• Traeth Ynys y Fydlyn — one of Anglesey’s quieter hidden gems, on the far side of the island.

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