Sandyhills Beach

Lovely walks westwards towards Brandy Cove and Portling Bay.
Plenty to see - interesting caves and Needle’s Eye along with the old Salmon fishermen’s nets.
Stunning along the Solway Coast. Well worth a visit on fine weather.
Sea can disappear for miles at low tide!
Parking is £3.50 and easy to justify in the right weather.

Love walking our dogs here even in winter, but sadly we need to use the car to get there & carpark now has barriers & you have to pay £5 regardless of the duration of your stay. Great in summer if you want to spend the day, not so great if you want a 40 min dog run a few times a week! Bit greedy in winter & certainly not the most attractive beach in Scotland.

The beach is always beautiful. No amount of money grasping on the part of the estate can flatten the joy of being there. The car park is now shielded from the road by trees & a steel barricade through which one passes to be charged a flat fee of £5 to park there. It leaves a bad taste, as do the cones ; double yellows down the hill. If you want to visit Sandy Hills be prepared to pay through the nose to do so.

Nice beach, just need to be careful of the high tide coming in. £5 for car parking though which let it down…

Classed as dog friendly, with no restrictions for dogs, however we were challenged by another dog walker, and his wife, who were quite aggressive, to have our dog on a lead.

No sign advising this on or near the beach,  there was a sign in car park advising to keep dog on lead, so I assumed this meant within the car park.

We only went to the beach to let the dog have a good run about, and a play in the water to destress as she is a guide dog, and has been working in an unfamiliar area as we are in this area on holiday.

The biggest downfall is the cost for Parking. I live reasonably local and walk my dog down here regularly however it is extremely frustrating when u have to pay £4.50 for an hour or 2. Water quality is fairly poor and had a few run ins with people who allow dogs to approach you even though there is a sign saying to keep dogs on leads

Be very careful just one rubbish sign about tides.
We walked to the left of beach tide was out by miles,within ten minutes the water level had risen by the rocks up to our waistlines.
We made a joke of it but really it was very dangerous and urge anybody reading this to take care.
We had a large golden retriever with us and only just managed to get back to safely.

Only wanted to park 30mins to run dogs about,
Complete rip off car park,
Cones down road way to make sure you dont park,
They dont even clean the beach dead sheep very smelly on beach, other than that was a clean beach,
Manage to park by toilets in end, so had 30mins free, certainly wont pay to park,  neither do i want to spend all day there,

Unfortunately beach this is no longer available to the public. Which is extremely sad. It’s a lovely small beach. The beach car park has been barricaded. No explanation given other than the owners want it this way.