Parks & Recreation
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Ellingwood Information Center
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park
Pemaquid Lighthouse Park will open for the season May 8, 2024.
The gates stay open year round so you are welcome to walk around the grounds, but all of the buildings and restrooms are closed until then.
Pemaquid Beach will open for the season May 25, 2024.
The gates are now open to the parking lot, but the boardwalk remains closed so you must enter through the tractor path. As a reminder, dogs are no longer allowed on the beach beginning May 1.
**Bristol Parks and Recreation now accepts all credit/ debit cards including ApplePay and GooglePay**
Resident and non-resident season passes and discount passes for the Lighthouse and Beach are available.
General Information and Contact
If you have questions about any of our Parks and Recreation locations you can email BristolParks@tidewater.net or call us at 207-563-1800
For more specific questions you can email Shelley
Bristol Parks Merchandise is now available online!!
Cabot Lyford Sculpture
An enlarged life-size sculpture of a heron, by the late Cabot Lyford of Pemaquid Beach village, is being offered to Pemaquid Beach Park. Cabot was one of the best-known American sculptors of the last half century, whose monumental works are displayed in Portland (the dolphin outside the Regency Hotel), on the Portsmouth waterfront, and elsewhere in Maine and nationwide. Cabot's wife, Joan, was not only instrumental in preserving the marsh behind the beach but also founded the Beachcomber's Rest nature center that Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust volunteers now operate each summer. The sculpture will commemorate the efforts of all those involved with those projects which have resulted in the unique facility we have today and celebrate the enduring beauty of the beach which can now be intact for future generations. For a town with many artists, Bristol does not have a lot of public art – this would be a first. Bristol Parks is trying to raise $25,000 toward the bronze casting of this sculpture.
Donations can be mailed directly to Bristol Parks at 1180 Bristol Road, Bristol, ME 04539.
Please contact Bristol Parks at bristolparks@tidewater.net or (207)563-1800.
* Tobacco Free Parks Policy: All Bristol Parks facilities are tobacco free effective May 4th, 2012. These facilities include: Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park, Pemaquid Beach and Park, Bristol Swimming Hole, Ellingwood Information Center and Park, Visitors Center and the Rock Schoolhouse.