Pebble Beach
Marathon, ON, Canada
Pebble Beach is a 2 km stretch of Lake Superior shore in Marathon, Ontario, covered in smooth, rounded pebbles in every color, from leaf-sized to fist-sized. Huge driftwood logs lie along the top of the beach. Rockhounds come to hunt for agates and quartz, and everyone else comes to walk, skip stones, and watch the lake.
A colorful, unusual beach right in town, though it's all stones and hard on bare feet.
How we score beachesWear sturdy shoes. The stairs from the Howe Street lookout are steep and the pebbles shift underfoot.
A parking area and lookout above Howe Street in town.
A steep trail or staircase leads down to the pebbles; there's no level access to the water.
Summer is easiest for the stairs. After fall storms, freshly washed stones are the best for hunting agates.
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