If you like strolling on Seacoast beaches, you might need to watch where you step. Maine is one of just two coastal states where private property owners own the beach area down to the low tide line ...

The Colonial Ordinances of 1941-47 make it so the public is not allowed to walk on private beaches in Massachusetts above the low water tide. But private property owners technically cannot interfere ...

Senate Bill 1622 allows county government authority to recognize recreational customary use of beaches It's a way to get around costly legal battles over private versus public beach access ...

In most coastal states, including New Hampshire, the public has the right to walk on even private beaches on the wet sand below high tide. Maine is one of just two coastal states where private ...