Virmond County Park
Mequon, WI
Virmond County Park is an Ozaukee County park on a bluff in Mequon, with about 500 feet of soft, golden sand at the bottom. A floating stairway opened in 2023 now leads from the bluff top down to Lake Michigan. Up top there are fields, courts, a picnic pavilion, and walking trails.
Some of the softest, quietest sand in the Milwaukee area, though every beach day ends with the stairway back up the bluff.
How we score beachesTake the new stairway down for a quiet swim; it's one of the least crowded beaches north of Milwaukee.
Parking at the county park off Lake Shore Drive.
The beach is reached by a long stairway down the bluff.
The water off Mequon warms enough to swim by mid July. In spring and fall the bluff-top trails are a good spot to watch migrating hawks and songbirds along the shore.
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