Rehoboth Beach

Address: ., Rehoboth Beach, DE

Email: rehoboth@beach-fun.com

Phone Number: 800-441-1329

Web Site: http://www.beach-fun.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.home

Rehoboth Beach still has the feel of its Methodist camp meeting origins more than a century ago. It’s compact and easily walked. Today, as then, folks arrive to stroll the natty milelong boardwalk, lie on the splendid sands, enjoy creative cuisine and best-in-kind sport shopping.

Beach access is through accommodations. Public transportation pares the need for a car locally. Parking is privileged and mis-parking is enforced. Want more quiet? Seek out the 6-mile oceanfront of Cape Henlopen State Park north of town.

Founded by the Methodist Church as a camp meeting ground in 1873, Rehoboth Beach has retained an air of civility to the present day -- no small feat for a boardwalk beach town that serves sweltering summer hordes from the Mid-Atlantic metroplex of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. It’s such a magnet for denizens of D.C. that Rehoboth often gets called “Our Nation’s Summer Capitol.” On summer weekends, you’ll definitely have to stake out a spot on the sand early in the day. AGE APPROPRIATE Families have been flocking to Rehoboth Beach for generations. In recent...

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