Nº4 · Brighton (bayside)
Brighton bayside
Bay views back to the city and the famous striped bathing boxes.
Draft trail. We haven’t walked this one yet to check every detail. Opening days, prices and paths can change, so check before you go.
Brighton’s beach has changed little in a century: a clifftop lookout, gardens above the sand and a row of colourful wooden bathing boxes along the shore. On a clear day the whole city skyline sits across the water.
- Getting there
- Sandringham line train to Brighton Beach station, about 300 m from Green Point.
- How long
- About 2 hours, 2 km on foot (1 h 25 min at the stops)
- Cost
- Free
- Best time
- Late afternoon, for the light on the boxes and the skyline.
The stops
- 1Green Point Lookout · Nature · 20 min
A clifftop view across the bay to the city.
Directions - 2Brighton Beach Gardens · Nature · 20 min
Lawns above the beach, good for a picnic.
Directions - 3Brighton Bathing Boxes · History · 45 min
Eighty-odd painted wooden boxes along Dendy Street Beach.
Directions
On the map
Tips
- The bathing boxes are private property: admire, don’t climb.
- Bring water and sunscreen; there is little shade on the sand.
Collect this trail’s stamp in your Passport by checking in at each stop.