Randall Kaplan is the Founder and CEO of Sandee, a travel company focused on the promotion of beaches and beach tourism around the world. Over the last seven years, the Sandee team has spent 170,000 hours creating the world’s largest and most comprehensive beach database by cataloging 94 categories of information for every beach in the world – more than 80,000 beaches in 212 countries.
And now Kaplan, who goes by the monicker Mr. Beach is sharing his top 50 beaches in the US.
The Mr. Beach 2022 United States Beach list includes:
- South Beach (Miami Beach, Florida)
- Cannon Beach (Cannon Beach, Oregon)
- Venice Beach (Venice, California)
- Waikiki Beach (Oahu, Hawaii)
- Clearwater Beach (Clearwater, Florida)
- Pfeiffer Beach (Big Sur, California)
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Empire, Michigan)
- Po’ipu Beach (Kauai, Hawaii)
- Hanalei Bay (Kauai, Hawaii)
- Gulf Shores Main Beach (Gulf Shores, Alabama)
- El Matador Beach (Malibu, California)
- Myrtle Beach (Socastee, South Carolina)
- Santa Monica Beach (Santa Monica, California)
- Destin Beach (Destin, Florida)
- Rockaway Beach (Rockaway Beach, Oregon)
- Capitola Beach (Capitola, California)
- Main Beach (East Hampton, New York)
- Emerald Isle (Emerald Isle, North Carolina)
- Coney Island Beach (Brooklyn, New York)
- Malaquite Beach (North Padre Island, Texas)
- McWay Cove (Monterey County, California)
- Delray Beach (Delray Beach, Florida)
- Ka’anapali Beach (Lahaina, Hawaii)
- Ocean City Beach (Ocean City, Maryland)
- Sanibel Lighthouse Beach Park (Sanibel Island, Florida)
- Oak Street Beach (Chicago, Illinois)
- Naples Beach (Naples, Florida)
- Driftwood Beach (Jekyll Island, Georgia)
- Waiʻānapanapa State Park (Hana, Hawaii)
- Rockaway Beach (Queens, New York)
- Carmel Beach (Carmel, California)
- Indiana Dunes State Park (Chesterton, Indiana)
- Laguna – Main Beach (Laguna Beach, California)
- Lucy Vincent Beach (Chilmark, Massachusetts)
- Fort Lauderdale Beach (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
- Polihua Beach (Lanai, Hawaii)
- Cape May Beach (Cape May, New Jersey)
- Ogunquit Beach (Ogunquit, Maine)
- Black Sand Beach (Prince William Sound, Alaska)
- Sanibel Beach (Sanibel, Florida)
- Makena Beach (Maui, Hawaii)
- Savannah’s Beach (Tybee Island, Georgia)
- East Beach (Galveston Island, Texas)
- Orange Beach (Orange Beach, Alabama)
- Biloxi Beach (Gulfport, Mississippi)
- Kiawah Beachwater Park (Kiawah Island, South Carolina)
- Ruby Beach (Kalaloch, Washington)
- Virginia Beach (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
- Coopers Beach (Southampton, New York)
- Crane Beach (Ipswich, Massachusetts)
Sandee has two business models: on the consumer side Sandee is a Yelp for beaches for the billion+ people a year who visit the beach, and on the business-to-business side Sandee is a proprietary database that licenses its data to government tourism agencies, tourism and hospitality companies, and social media companies around the world.
