Dewey Beach? (zoning, restaurants, to eat)

[Nelliebell]

Does Dewey Beach have a public restroom??

[nuts2uiam]

Originally Posted by Nelliebell

Does Dewey Beach have a public restroom??

None that I am aware of.

[lyndyb]

Nuts is correct - I just did a quick online check and both the Dewey Beach site and Trip Advisors shows no public restrooms.

[Nelliebell]

That's what I thought. I never heard of a public beach that does not provide bathrooms. I guess all the beachgoers do it in the ocean.

[lyndyb]

I've never stayed in Dewey or been on their beach - I've only eaten at various restaurants there and they have restrooms, but I daresay only for the customers. To my knowledge, there isn't a lot of parking in the beach area - tough to find a spot to eat at a restaurant even off season. So I'm guessing they cater mostly to those who are actually staying there.

[Boothwynman]

One spring when I was staying in Bethany (I want to say early May of 2017, before the summer parking regs kicked in) I went up to Dewey and strolled Route 1, and nature called, and for some reason there was a portajohn at IIRC Collins and Route 1, and I used it. That's the closest thing I've ever found to public lavatories in Dewey. Collins and Coastal Hwy. on GSV (Oct. 2019) shows no john but there was one somewhere on Rt. 1 in that neighorhood, so it obviously has been removed since I used it.

[Boothwynman]

Who remembers the Crosswinds apts. at Read and Buena? My father, stepmother, and I stayed there summers during my MS/HS days in the '70s. I imagine Dewey's incorporation and subsequent zoning laws led to those wooden cottages' demolition.

Here was what was on that corner by 2012...

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6917...7i13312!8i6656

[retiree2011]

Originally Posted by lyndyb

I've never stayed in Dewey or been on their beach - I've only eaten at various restaurants there and they have restrooms, but I daresay only for the customers. To my knowledge, there isn't a lot of parking in the beach area - tough to find a spot to eat at a restaurant even off season. So I'm guessing they cater mostly to those who are actually staying there.

I went to Dewey Beach a few years ago, in the early fall, especially to try Woody’s crab cake. I drove up and down the street, no parking, side streets were permit parking only. I finally got a parking space in front of Woody’s, the angle-in parking area. I have been driving for decades and the space I found was the hardest space I ever parked in - the was a huge cement planter on my passenger side that I had to avoid hitting. A large vehicle was on my other side and I had a hard time getting in the space and if I was bigger, I probably couldn’t have gotten out of my car.

But the crab cake was excellent, as I had been told, before going to Woody’s.

[2020's YouTube Vlog]

Is Dewey Beach really as wild as they say it is?

[rdlr]

Originally Posted by 2020's YouTube Vlog

Is Dewey Beach really as wild as they say it is?

For the young ones, it is. For the older ones.....not so much.