Crawfordsburn Country Park
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Helen's Bay, County Down
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🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entry🏖 BeachSwimming🌲 Woodland
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Crawfordsburn Country Park is a coastal country park on the southern shores of Belfast Lough, featuring 3.5 km of coastline, sandy beaches, woodland trails, waterfalls, and scenic views across Belfast Lough towards Carrickfergus. The park surrounds two beaches — Crawfordsburn Beach and Helen's Bay Beach — and includes Grey Point Fort, a historic coastal battery dating from 1904 that now houses a military museum. Visitors can enjoy woodland walks through peaceful meadows and wooded glens, rock pooling on the beach, swimming, and picnicking on the grassy areas. The park is free to enter and has a cafe and paid parking. It is managed by Ards and North Down Borough Council.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Bug pot
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Flask of tea
- Pushchair buggy board
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
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