Motorhome on beach

The beaches in CC are soft sand and unless you are 4x4 your not getting on it. The end of CC are see rvers set up in a parking lot with the beach on the other side of the dunes. That is what I would do. Never saw a camper on the beach there and you also need permits. I camp on the outerbeach with my 30TT pulled by my 3/4 ton Suburban, where I live and have been doing it for years. I watch the weekend warriors who think they can muscle through and sink all the time. There is one chap who has a short Winnebago and he drives up the burma road which is fairly packed and camps on the hill without much trouble. The beaches in other parts of the country from what I understand can be fairly hard making driving easy. Still they charge $400 to tow out a stuck truck, you could probably double that for a MoHo.

When I first started RVing, I was looking forward to camping on a beach. Never had the opportunity, and now from what I've seen and heard, that's the last place I'd take mine.
A few weeks ago, I spent a couple of hours watching autos get stuck in the sand in Long Beach Washington. Was very entertaining watching people trying to get unstuck, even saw a tow truck get stuck trying to free a car..........another tow truck showed up and finally everyone got free.

If the beaches in Cape Cod are like the beaches in Daytona, I wouldn't have a problem taking my motorhome on them. But if they are like Pismo in California, then no, I wouldn't take my motorhome on them. At Pismo as long as you stay down by the water you're fine the sand is good and hard. But you have to go up into the softer sand to camp and lots of people get stuck. Not to mention you get sand in everything. And there's some really nice RV parks with full hookups just a few hundred feet off the beach that are so much nicer. East coast beaches are a lot different than the west coast. It's generally a lot more level on the east coast and the waves aren't as big.

Typically look around and see where are others are parked. If you have to do it, you want to stay just as close to the high tide line (firmest sand) as possible (like 25'-30' away).

Often when people do this, they have someone in the group with a powerful truck that can get you moving when the time comes to leave. You might also want to bring something, like a roll of 3'x 50' plastic to wrap as a skirt on lower part of your coach on the ocean side to keep wind and sand out of your camp.

Good Luck

I put my 27 foot gasser on the beach but in Texas and I usually follow the tracks.

It is an experience but make sure you have an extraction plan.
Is there a service nearby that will come?
How far off the road can he get to you without heroic and extra cost equipment? HOW MUCH WILL HE CHARGE during business hours and after business hours
Do you have planks to drive onto? Like 2X10 by 6 foot so you can get a good running start if you have to?
You may have to sacrifice the planks.
Getting moving is usually the hard part and unless something unusual happens once you are moving you should stay moving.
Remember the laws of physics. A body in motion tends to .......

The only picture you might like is
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w266/kajtek1/Baja2.jpg

This is my 15 tons coach on beaches in Baja, California .
They have harder sand than beaches in US and I always walk before driving.
The only time I got stuck was when I tried to make turn at fresh fill at dump station, but I was prepared to dig the coach out without help.
Been to Pismo Beach with my 4WD truck and 2600lb trailer and was getting stuck.

I don't get the images due to our preference setting. I'm assuming the typical dumbass pictures. Just looking for actual experience.

I wonder why they don't take RV's on the beach more often?

It does look kind of expensive. :)

We see Lots of cars on the beach at low tide here in Oregon and Washington..Rv's not so much

Don't go off road (at least not in sand) with a 12+ ton RV!