Punta Salinas Beach, “Balneario Punta Salinas”

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Punta Salinas Beach, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

Pun­ta Sali­nas Beach, Toa Baja, Puer­to Rico

Pun­ta Sali­nas Beach (Bal­n­eario Pun­ta Sali­nas) is a beau­ti­ful beach locat­ed in the Munic­i­pal­i­ty of Toa Baja, about 8 miles west of the San Juan area.  Pun­ta Sali­nas is a small beach, but it’s also a Blue Flag beach.  That means that it has all the ameni­ties like: ample park­ing, show­ers, restrooms, life­guards, safe­ty buoys, con­ces­sion stands, gaze­bos recy­cling bins, blue flag sig­nage and writ­ten material.

The water at Pun­ta Sali­nas is pris­tine and the sand is a medi­um tan col­or.  There is plen­ty of shade thanks to the many pines and palm trees that line the shore.

This beach is just a stone’s throw from the San Juan area so it’s a ? hour dri­ve at the most.  It’s also quite pop­u­lar; espe­cial­ly with the res­i­dents of the Bayamón and Levit­town area.  That means that it can get quite crowd­ed dur­ing week­ends, hol­i­days and the sum­mer months.

Punta Salinas Beach, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

Pun­ta Sali­nas Beach, Toa Baja, Puer­to Rico. Click on image to see it larger.

How­ev­er, I recent­ly pro­duced a video for my trav­el blog cov­er­ing sev­er­al blue flag beach­es on the Island and I was sur­prised to find quite a large crowd on a Wednes­day.  That video was pro­duced in Sep­tem­ber, when most stu­dents are already back to school.  So I guess this beach is just pop­u­lar all year ’round.

Per­son­al­ly, I love Pun­ta Sali­nas.  The water is crys­tal clear, the surf is almost inex­is­tent and its with­in the San Juan Metro­plex.  What’s not to like.

How­ev­er, here’s a word of advise. Pun­ta Sali­nas Beach (Bal­n­eario Pun­ta Sali­nas) sits on the west­ern side of a penin­su­la that has Ense­na­da Boca Vie­ja on its east­ern shore.  The first is beau­ti­ful and pris­tine.  So much so that it has con­sis­tent­ly earned the Blue Flag dis­tinc­tion.  But the sec­ond is a dif­fer­ent sto­ry. Ense­na­da Boca Vie­ja is wild, rocky and dirty.  So stay away.

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