Ramsey Creek Beach
Ramsey Creek Beach is a 46-acre waterfront beach on Lake Norman.
Ramsey Creek Beach is a waterfront beach featuring a swimming area at Ramsey Creek Park. This 46-acre park also has boat launching opportunities and docks, a playground, picnic shelters, nature trails, fishing pier, enclosed dog park and a volleyball court.
| 2025 Ramsey Creek Beach Fees | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Mecklenburg County Resident Fee | Non-County Resident Fee |
| Walk-Ins Ages 5 and Younger | Free | Free |
| Walk-Ins Ages 6 - 13 | $3 | $3 |
| Walk-Ins Ages 14 and Older | $5 | $5 |
| Beach Shuttle on Holiday Weekends | Free | Free |
| Weekday Entry: Per Car | $5 | $10 |
| Weekday Entry: Per Car, Seniors and Persons With a Disability | $2 | $3 |
| Weekend and Holiday Entry: Per Car | $10 | $15 |
| Weekend and Holiday Entry: Per Car, Seniors and Persons With a Disability | $2 | $3 |
| Season Pass | $52 | $77 |
| Season Pass: Seniors or Persons With a Disability | $32 | $40 |
Summer Camp Group Requests for Ramsey Creek Beach
We will begin taking request for internal camps on March 3rd, 2025
We will take external camps request beginning on April 1st, 2025.
Camps can visit us on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
We will take camps (12:30pm to 4:30pm).
Important Information
- Small personal coolers and water bottles permitted.
- No food, drink, or trash shall be permitted within 10 feet of water.
- Food and beverages may only be consumed in your personal seating area.
- No climbing on lifeguard stands.
- No swimming or hanging beyond yellow boundary float.
- No diving headfirst into water.
- Please reframe from throwing sand or rocks. No digging large, deep holes or mounds.
- For your safety, only U.S. Coast Guard approved flotation devices are allowed.
- Beach changing is strictly prohibited including young children and infants.
- Diaper changing is prohibited.
- Public nudity is not allowed in the park or on beach.
- Alcoholic beverages, illegal drugs, tobacco products
- Bicycles, inflatable toys, fireworks, open fires
- Amplified music-lifeguards may enforce this and request to relocate in the park
- Animals or pets (with the exception of service animals)
- No glass containers allowed
- No tents or pop-up structures permitted on the beach
- Intoxication and disorderly conduct
- Fishing, feeding of wildlife
- Scuba diving
- Launching of surfboards or personal watercraft
- Long distance underwater swimming, hyperventilation and static apnea
FAQs
7 a.m. - sunset, daily.
Yes. Once the park has reached parking capacity, no more cars will be admitted until additional spaces become available. Visitors are prohibited from parking along Nantz Road or any of the surrounding streets.
Cornelius Park and Ride (20300 Sefton Park Drive, Cornelius, NC 28031).
Shuttle is only available on holidays and holiday weekends.
Yes, we provide accessible restrooms, outdoor showers, and an accessible sand wheelchair.
No.
No.
Only at shelters 1, 2 and 3. Grilling is not permitted
at shelters 4, 5 and 6.
No.
Dogs can enter the water if they are on a leash. The
owner must remain on land. Dogs must be on a leash at all times outside of the dog park.