Park Avenue Beach
Highland Park, IL
Park Avenue Beach is Highland Park's boating and fishing beach, with concrete and sand launch ramps for boats, kayaks, and paddleboards. It's a non-swimming beach, used by anglers casting from shore and paddlers heading out along the bluffs. It's a short drive south of Moraine Beach and north of Rosewood.
Handy for boaters and paddlers, but it's a launch site first and a beach second, with no swimming.
How we score beachesLaunch a kayak here on a calm morning for a paddle along the bluffs.
Parking at the boating facility; check posted launch and parking rules.
A road leads down to the launch area.
The launch is busiest on calm summer mornings, before the afternoon wind comes up. In fall, anglers cast from the shoreline on calm days.
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