Woodneck Beach and
Sippewissett Marsh

Woodneck Beach and Sippewissett Marsh are the interconnected coastal jewels of our neighborhood. The beach — one of the Town of Falmouth’s ten public beaches — is a “coastal complex” that consists of an interactive barrier beach-inlet-salt marsh system. The beach serves as a popular recreational beach and as wildlife habitat for birds and other wildlife, including the threatened piping plover. The permanent inlet flushes seawater to the extensive marshlands, which, in turn, provide critical life-cycle habitat for many species of marine fish. Under the leadership of MaryKay Fox and Karl Audenaerde, local volunteers in 2022 repair extensive storm damage to the dunes, using 750 cubic yards of sand provided by the Town and installing fencing to increase the dunes’ stability. In 2024, Lara Gulmann, a scientist with the Buzzards Bay Coalition, repeated sampling and analysis conducted in 2006.