Balmedie Country Park
The Country Park provides amenities within the dunes for visitors, including parking, toilets, wooden walkways across the sands and streams, picnic areas with barbecues, and a swing park with a fishing theme. The park is often used by horse riders as a starting / finishing point for beach rides with room to park a horsebox or trailer. The beach is also known for its vast dunes.
The park is open during the hours of daylight every day of the year. Over the years the beach has won a number of awards.
There is an unofficial naturist area on the beach, a stretch of the beach behind the Blackdog Firing Range, Google Maps. Access can be gained by walking down the beach towards Aberdeen from the Balmedie Country park car park, or by access through the firing range. Range in use is designated by Red Flags flying in various areas around the range. Naturism Balmedie, Official British Naturism Website
During World War Two, Balmedie beach was designated as a Bomb Cemetery. Defused and unexploded bombs from Luftwaffe raids in Aberdeen were brought here to be cleaned of explosives or detonated on the foreshore. Three pillboxes were build on the dunes at balmedie to protect a small radar station consisting of 3 masts. Anti-Tank blocks are also located in the dunes along with remains of the barb wire defences just to the north.
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