Palm Beach island beaches: Midtown Beach and Phipps Ocean Park

The Town of Palm Beach says it has two public beaches on the island, Midtown Municipal Beach and Phipps Ocean Park, with lifeguards every day of the year. This page covers where they are, their hours, the meters and rates, the dog rule and Phipps Ocean Park’s reopening, and it says plainly which beach rules we could not read on a live Town page. We checked everything on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

The Town gives two mileage figures: its visitor page says 12 miles of beachfront, and its government page says three miles of public beaches. They measure different things, so we quote both and do not pick one.

• The Town says it has 12 miles of beachfront and two public beaches, Midtown Municipal Beach and Phipps Ocean Park, with lifeguards every day of the year. Town of Palm Beach: New Resident and Visitor Resources
• The Town's government page says Palm Beach offers award-winning parks, golf, tennis and recreation facilities and three miles of public beaches. Town of Palm Beach: Town Government
• The Town's visitor page says the Town has 12 miles of beachfront and two public beaches; its Town Government page says three miles of public beaches. These are different measures, not necessarily a conflict. Town of Palm Beach: Town Government

Midtown Municipal Beach

This is the beach most people mean by Palm Beach’s municipal beach. The Town places Midtown Municipal Beach north of Worth Avenue in the 300 block of South Ocean Boulevard, and lists its hours as sunrise to sunset, with lifeguards on duty 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. From the shops, it is the public beach closest to Worth Avenue.

• The Town places Midtown Municipal Beach north of Worth Avenue in the 300 Block of South Ocean Boulevard. Town of Palm Beach: Hours & Schedules
• The Town lists Midtown Municipal Beach hours as sunrise to sunset, with lifeguards on duty 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Town of Palm Beach: Hours & Schedules

Parking for the beach

The Town’s Master Fee Schedule sets South Ocean Boulevard (Mid-Town Beach) at $7.00 an hour, and the Town’s meter table lists South Ocean Boulevard, Hammon Avenue, the 100 block of Royal Palm Way and the Midtown streets as active from 9:00 am to midnight, later than the 5:00 pm close on Worth Avenue.

Where	Meters active	Rate
South Ocean Boulevard (Mid-Town Beach)	9:00 am to midnight	$7.00 an hour
Hammon Avenue; 100 block of Royal Palm Way	9:00 am to midnight	$7.00 an hour on the 100 blocks the fee schedule names
Midtown streets: 200 to 400 blocks of Brazilian, Australian and Chilean; 300 Hibiscus; 300 Cocoanut	9:00 am to midnight	$5.00 an hour unless the posted zone says otherwise
Royal Palm Way/Recreation Center Lot	Not stated in the meter table	$3.00 an hour
Phipps Ocean Park zone	Town gives a 4-hour maximum stay	$10.00 an hour

• The Master Fee Schedule sets $7.00/hour for Sunrise (100 Block), South Ocean Blvd (Mid-Town Beach), parts of the 100 blocks of Brazilian, Australian, Chilean, Peruvian, Worth and Hammon in ParkMobile zone 46100, the rest of the 100 block of Hammon and the 100 Block of Royal Palm. Town of Palm Beach: Master Fee Schedule (Rev 10/13/2026)
• The Town says Midtown streets (200 to 400 blocks of Brazilian, Australian, Chilean, 300 Hibiscus, 300 Cocoanut) and South Ocean Boulevard, Hammon Avenue and the 100 block of Royal Palm Way are active from 9:00 am to midnight. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town's Master Fee Schedule sets parking at $5.00/hour for "All other ParkMobile Spaces." Town of Palm Beach: Master Fee Schedule (Rev 10/13/2026)
• The Master Fee Schedule sets $3.00/hour for the Royal Palm Way/Recreation Center Lot and $10.00/hour for the Phipps Ocean ParkMobile zone. Town of Palm Beach: Master Fee Schedule (Rev 10/13/2026)
• The Town's ParkMobile table is headed "Session Time Limit" but lists only the hours meters are active (for example Worth Avenue 9:00 am to 5:00 pm); it gives a maximum stay only for the Southern Boulevard Causeway and Phipps Ocean Park (4 hours). The Worth Avenue Association says Worth Avenue meters are three-hour and Peruvian Avenue four-hour. The Town does not confirm those limits on its own page. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach

Pay with ParkMobile by app, by phone at 877-727-5714, at parkmobile.io or by texting PARK to 77223. A vehicle with a valid disabled placard or plate may park up to 4 hours free in any paid space. Fines are $60 in commercial areas and $75 in residential areas. The Town does not say whether meters run on Sundays or holidays. Compare every option on our parking page.

• The Town says to pay ParkMobile by app, by phone at 877-727-5714, by web browser at parkmobile.io, or by texting PARK to 77223. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town says vehicles with a valid disabled placard or plate may park up to 4 hours without charge in any paid space; longer stays must pay. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• The Town lists most parking fines (expired meters, time limits, illegal parking) at $60 in commercial areas and $75 in residential areas; handicap violations $250; vehicle boot $350. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach
• Neither the Park in Palm Beach page nor the Master Fee Schedule says whether meters are enforced on Sundays or Town holidays. Town of Palm Beach: Park in Palm Beach

Phipps Ocean Park: closed until November 18, reopening November 19

The Town says Phipps Ocean Park is closed to the public from May 1 through November 18, 2026; only the racquet center and its parking have reopened, for tennis and pickleball patrons. The Preservation Foundation lists the Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening for Thursday, November 19, 2026, 11:00 am, at 2201 South Ocean Boulevard, open and complimentary to the public. The Town lists the improvements as native plantings, relocating the Little Red Schoolhouse, a Coastal Restoration Center, an outdoor classroom, garden and playground, new beach pavilions, lifeguard towers, bathrooms and walking paths, and two pickleball courts. Lifeguard hours at the reopened park are not published yet.

• The Town says Phipps Ocean Park is closed to the public from May 1 through November 18, 2026; only the racquet center and its parking have reopened for tennis and pickleball patrons. Town of Palm Beach: Phipps Ocean Park Transformation
• The Preservation Foundation lists the Phipps Ocean Park Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening for Thursday, November 19, 2026, 11:00 am, at 2201 South Ocean Boulevard, open and complimentary to the public. Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach: Phipps Ocean Park Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening
• The Town lists the Phipps improvements as native plantings, relocating the Little Red Schoolhouse, a Coastal Restoration Center, outdoor classroom, garden and playground, new beach pavilions, lifeguard towers, bathrooms and walking paths, and two pickleball courts. Town of Palm Beach: Phipps Ocean Park Transformation
• The Town says lifeguards serve both public beaches every day of the year, but Phipps is closed until November 18, 2026; lifeguard hours at the reopened park are not published. Town of Palm Beach: New Resident and Visitor Resources

The Preservation Foundation says the park was the Phipps family’s 1948 gift and runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway with 1,200 feet of oceanfront. The Little Red Schoolhouse, founded in 1886 as the first schoolhouse in Southeast Florida, was moved there in 1960. On Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8 to 10 am, the Foundation holds a free Winter Bioblitz at the park’s entry plaza.

• The Preservation Foundation says Phipps Ocean Park was the Phipps family's 1948 gift and runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway with 1,200 feet of oceanfront. Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach: Extraordinary Spaces @Phipps Ocean Park
• The Preservation Foundation says the Little Red Schoolhouse was founded in 1886 as the first schoolhouse in Southeast Florida and was moved to Phipps Ocean Park in 1960. Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach: Little Red Schoolhouse

Unguarded beach and the dog beach

The Town says beachgoers can also use the beach from Barton Avenue to Seaspray Avenue and from Sunset Avenue north to Wells Road, with no lifeguards in those sections. Dogs are allowed only on the Sunset to Wells beach: off leash from dawn to 9am and on a leash after 9am.

• The Town says beachgoers can also use the beach from Barton Avenue to Seaspray Avenue and from Sunset Avenue north to Wells Road, with no lifeguards in those sections. Town of Palm Beach: New Resident and Visitor Resources
• The Town says dogs are only allowed on the Sunset to Wells beach; they may be unleashed from dawn to 9am and must be leashed after 9am. Town of Palm Beach: New Resident and Visitor Resources

What the Town does not publish, or we could not read

The Town’s beach FAQ page now returns a page-not-found message, and no live Town page we read sets out rules on alcohol, smoking, glass, tents or fires on the public beaches. We state none of them. Ask a lifeguard on duty, or call Town Hall at 561-838-5400. The only swimming information we hold is the Town’s lifeguard hours above; we make no claims of our own about conditions in the water.

• The Town's beach FAQ category page returns a page-not-found message, and we found no current Town page with its rules on alcohol, smoking, glass, fires or tents on the public beaches. Town of Palm Beach: FAQs
• The Town lists its contact address as 360 South County Road, P.O. Box 2029, Palm Beach, FL 33480, phone 561-838-5400. Town of Palm Beach: Official Website

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center says the Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, peaking around September 10. The Town says Palm Beach is in Evacuation Zone B, often among the first areas to evacuate during a hurricane threat. The date checker flags hurricane-season dates, and plan your visit has the rest of the day.

• NOAA's National Hurricane Center says the Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30; the peak is September 10, with most activity from mid-August to mid-October. NOAA National Hurricane Center: Tropical Cyclone Climatology
• The Town says Palm Beach is in Evacuation Zone B, often among the first areas to evacuate during a hurricane threat. Town of Palm Beach: FAQs

Beach events

Beaches FAQ

Dates, rules and hours can change. The organisers have the final word: Town of Palm Beach (official site)