![]() Reservations to enter the park are required, adults $4, ages 6-11 $2. Consider a visit the Seacoast Science Center, located at the park (open weekends, reserve tickets online at with touch tanks, aquariums, and interactive exhibits about New Hampshire’s coastline. Several trails crisscross the park leading into fields and forests, and around freshwater ponds and salt marshes. You’ll also see remnants of an ancient “drowned forest,” roots and stubs from trees some 3,500 years old or more sticking out of the water. Look for tiny sea creatures, including periwinkles, barnacles, minuscule lobsters, teeny shrimp, and a variety of crabs in the tide pools. Seagrasses are often abundant in intertidal areas. ![]() Seagrasses, like surf grasses (Phyllospadix spp.) and eelgrasses (Zostera marina), are the only submerged angiosperms (flowering plants) found in the ocean. One of the premier spots in the country for tide pooling, this 135-acre state park gem is the largest undeveloped stretch of shore along New Hampshire’s abbreviated coastline. Many marine plants, especially seaweeds, thrive in the harsh environment of the intertidal zones. From here you’ll also have views of the Fort Pickering Lighthouse. Look for seaweed, barnacles, crabs, and mollusks. Pebble Beach is the best for tide pooling, a small rocky shoreline with easy to explore pools. There’s a campground (one of the closest to Boston) and a boat launch, remnants of historic Fort Pickering (surrounded by a moat!), and three beaches. This beloved city park, a stop along the Salem Trolley Tour, has a lot going on (and going for it). Parking is $5 for Massachusetts residents, $20 for nonresidents. There are also trails through the adjacent Halibut Point Reservation ( with more tide pools to explore. Save time to walk the trails surrounding the historic Babson Farm Quarry, and out to shoreline lookouts. At low tide, seaweed drapes over exposed, wet rocks, and crabs, shrimp, barnacles, mollusks and other tidal critters shelter in pools. But kids will be more interested in the tide pools, where a variety of sea creatures lurk. On clear days, you’ll have sweeping, long-distance views, often of the Isle of Shoals, 20 miles or so away. ![]() The power of the sea is in full view at this park, hugging the jagged, rocky Atlantic coastline. Tip: Visit on a day when low tide occurs in the late afternoon, when many beachgoers head home, and parking is discounted. There are a limited number of nonresident parking spaces, $30 weekdays, $35 weekends and holidays, cash only. There are also great views out to sea and of the 1801 Annisquam Lighthouse. Go rock hopping along the shore, and peer into tide pools filled with sea creatures like hermit crabs, tiny shrimp, and snails. At low tide, the water retreats nearly a mile, exposing a long sandbar and jumbles of rocks that trap salty sea puddles. Erin Clark/Globe staffĭubbed Winga by locals, this popular beach is located at the western edge of the city along the Annisquam River and Ipswich Bay. Lily Germain, 3, sat in a tide pool while 9-year-old Margo Reinfeld played behind her. Each time I visit any San Diego tide pools, I see something different.
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