I’m happy to announce Chincoteague made the list for America’s Best Little Beach Towns in Yahoo Travel today and AOL Travel gave it the #1 spot! Oh Lord I can hear the pitter patter of tourists’ feet now. Seriously, it’s the tourists that keep this place alive so I shouldn’t complain, should I?
Sunset over the Chincoteague channel
As a year round resident, I’ve seen the seasons come and go. Spring it starts getting alive, summer it’s crazy, fall is bird watcher season and winter is downright almost dead thanks to those frigid winds coming off the channel and the Atlantic. Brr..makes me shiver just to think about it.
But Chincoteague has been my fulltime home for the last three years. Has my opinion changed of it? Not all all despite the tourists and the winters, it’s still paradise. My only irks are the scooters and sightseeing tourists who don’t think about the residents having to get to work for example and they’ll be plodding around at 10 m.p.h. and you can’t pass them or they’ll give you a ticket faster than you can say “God give me Labor Day.”
All joking aside, as one of my neighbors put it after I asked him how was he managing with the noise from next door, “It comes with the territory.”
Yep, we choose to live in a resort town and we’ve got to suck it up.
One good thing? You can run around with no make-up, bed hair and pajamas and everyone just thinks you’re a tourist and don’t pay you any mind. Ahhh…the advantages of living in one of America’s best little beach towns.
Until next time, 
Island Chick
Your little town looks perfect to me, but I sure would miss the big city life of Los Angeles, the long lines in the store, the seven lanes of freeway traffic that look like a gigantic parking lot, the brake lights for as far as the eye can see on the freeway, But, then again we have nightlife, movie stars, the mountains and the beach in only an hour direction east or west. What more could a person ask for?
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I’d like to be here right now, since it’s unbearably hot and muggy in NYC at the moment.
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I am looking for help planning a vacation in August to Chincoteague and Assateague. Is it possible to stay right on a sandy beach area (short walk ok) and not have to drive to the beach from your rental or hotel? Do you think it is better to be based in Chincoteague or Assateague? We want to swim and relax on the beach, boat, fish, crab, clam, bike, tour around the entire area including Ocean City. Please feel free to make specific recommendations. If you want to e-mail me send me your email and I will send you mine. Thank you for your help. Maria in CT.
I wish I had found your blog a few months ago! We just visited Chincoteague last month and it was an amazing experience. The beach was absolutely beautiful.
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Hi Maria!
Actually, you can’t stay on Assateague itself…it’s owned by the park department, but there are a couple of hotels on Chincoteague located near the McDonald’s that are closer to Assateague than the other hotels on the island. Walking to the beach would be out as it would be too far a walk (maybe a long hike?) but you can ride a bicycle and get there in about fifteen minutes…it’s really not far at all. As for staying on a hotel on the beach, there aren’t any because the park department wants to preserve the wildlife habitats and there’s always the sand erosion…we lost quite a few sand dunes from the last storm we had. Ocean City would be your best bet if you wanted to stay right there on the beach. If ever you want to contact me, my email address is thewriterslife(at) yahoo.com. Email me anytime!
Wow…Jen you were here and didn’t look me up. Shame, shame shame. LOL, just kidding. We had a beautiful June, hot July and Lord knows what August is going to bring but because it’s been so dry, mosquitoes left us alone! How nice to walk the dogs without swatting at my legs for once!