North Beach

North Beach Gulf sunset · no high-rises · America's #1 beach

#1 Beach
nightly

Sunset Cam

hit time-lapse

SUNSET CAM

LIVE cam

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Animated preview · watch the live Fort De Soto County Park cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers

🌅

North Beach Horizon

at the dip

🦅

Osprey & Eagles

all afternoon

🐬

Pass-a-Grille Dolphins

at dusk

🦩

Roseate Spoonbills

at dusk

⭐

Stars (no light pollution)

after dark

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

Entry

$5/vehicle

county tollbooth, cash or card

Fishing

2 free piers

Gulf pier + bay pier, no license at the park pier

Ranking

#1 US beach

voted multiple times by travel publications

No shops

bring food

snack bar only — pack a cooler for the full day

applause at the dip

Sunset time, countdown and the Sunset Score are computed live from Open-Meteo’s real cloud forecast at each day’s sunset hour. The in-page cam is an animated preview — tap “live cam” for the real Fort De Soto County Park webcam. The North Beach Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.