cana gorda beach

I vacationed in PR for a month and traveled to every corner of the island and this place is a little gem. Hands down this is the warmest water, clearest water, best beach for swimming and kids on the main island of Puerto Rico. As soon as we came to this beach I hated myself for staying on the north side of the Island in San Juan for most of my stay. First of all it's on the south side which is the sunny side of the island. The water was so incredibly warm you don't even feel it getting in, whereas the north side PR beaches we went to in January were chilly. As soon as we came to this beach I hated myself for staying on the north side of the Island in San Juan for most of my stay. The water is absolutely tranquil and is supposedly that way all the time. There was so little movement I could lay on the shore with water over my ears while sunbathing and my face never got wet. The water was crystal clear because there was no sand getting whipped around in it by waves. The only drawback I can see about this beach for some is there isn't a massive open expanse of sand. The shoreline has a lot of palm trees, but I actually like that more, makes you not feel so exposed and is kind of like a natural beach umbrella. They also have easily accessible restrooms, a concession stand, and even a lifeguard, all of which are almost non existent anywhere else I went in PR, and I went to probably 20 different beaches.

spend the hole morning with friends , there was no one there we had a blast it was quiet and relaxing , taking a sunbath and drinking vodka and cranberry. great place to go on weekdays , if you want to relax, during the weekend,, its very crowd , specially in the summer

Place to snorkel around Rincon, PR. Lots of fish. Even saw a sea turtle. Coral is tired. No color. But, waters were calm and clarity was good.

We went on a Thursday. Only 3 dollars for us and our car and there were few others around. We parked in the shade and chose a shaded picnic table near the water. The breeze was wonderful. We played near the water's edge for a while and then paddled our floats to the limits of the swimming area to let the current carry us back to the shore. Wonderful and relaxing. The park gets busy Fri-Sun, and was packed by noon the next Sunday as we were driving to our next location.

I choose this beach even by seing some bad reviews and I had an awesome experience and my kids love it I have no complains about it ,I would return this year. Place is clean and really beautiful there was no garbage around, bathrooms were clean and everyone was really friendly its a family place that I will always recomend..Love Puerto Rico

Have been to this been a few times over the past 12 yrs and I have to say it is not as wonderful as it once was. It has been built up too much. Yeah, great that they have rest room facilities, but no toilet paper. A bit neglected.

We took the 30 min drive here from Ponce on a Thursday in February. $3 to park. Cana Gorda is a very pretty beach, in a very pretty setting, on the south side of the Dry Forest, but certainly NOT well maintained on the off season beyond garbage can collection. It's looks a bit like Luquillo, but an eighth of the size, and had much less to offer typical family-crowd tourists. There were no lifeguards on duty. I never found showers or a sit down toilet in anything like a Men's room, although I have to think they have them someplace, they were unmarked and not obvious. One small kiosk with a surprisingly good selection of sundry/beach/t-shirt items and what I would classify as emergency picnic supplies was open, and playing music. Kids bought candy and ice cream, I got a hat. Water was a bit murky when we were there, windy too, but not any significant wave action. We didn't mind any of this much, so we stayed a while, and got no hassles from the handful of local families that were there. We had to leave when we needed a toilet, shower and hot food. Nice little empanada stand up on 333 towards town, and a Burger King farther up got us ready for the drive back to Ponce.

Its actually really nice, I just marked three stars since it wasn't like anything fancy... just nice. Decent size beach, and nice calm shallow swimming water. Easy for small kids. Has bathrooms and changing areas. Looks like there are BBQ pits as well.Only cost was for parking. I think that was about $3.

This beach is very small, but the water is calm and WARM. Great for swimming, not for snorkeling (too cloudy.) We had a very difficult time finding this beach, so be sure you have explicit directions before heading out.

As a child this was my favorite beach. I had not been back in almost 2 decades and of course I didn't have unrealistic expectations of it being exactly the same but I was less than impressed with what I found. The sand was so dirty, plastic utensils, napkins, cups, and food all over the place. The amount of flies everywhere was overwhelming and the actual beach water was disguisting - not only was it completely full of seaweed but we also found floating debris (plastic cups and bottles) floating around. I stayed in the water all of 10 minutes and the stress of seeing such a once beautiful beach look so awful just gave me a migraine - the rest of my afternoon was spent in a hammock, away from it all.

Balneario Cana Gorda en GuanicaIronicamente el dia que acudimos a este Balneario, no teniamos ni la mas lejana idea de donde quedaba, ni siquiera pensabamos ir a el. Fuimos por que no nos quedo otra, ya que una vez que bajamos a Aguadilla para ir a Crash Boat nos topamos con un aguacero de mas de 3 horas seguidas, y viendo esas condiciones decidimos ir a otro Balneario. Ya que es importante tener presente que si llueve en una playa de Puerto Rico, lo ideal es no meterse aunque luego "escampe" o se pare la lluvia por que tras el detente de la lluvia aparecen corrientes marinas, que no ves y que te "jalan" o halan a lo mas profundo del mar si no sabes como esparte de ella, ya que es considerablemente dificil poderte "safar" de corrientes marinas. Aunque aconsejan que de encontrarte atrapado, nades no verticalmente sino o hacia el este u oeste o sea nadar no vertical a la costa, como la mayoria hace, sino de lado, o horizontal a la costa. read more: http://rosamcg7.blogspot.com/2013/07/balneario-cana-gorda-en-guanica.html

Pese a que estaba un poco sucia la playa por algas marinas, me gusto porque hay sombra, no es muy profunda, me pareció muy buen lugar para pasarla en familia

Es una playa administrada por el gobierno con horario de 7 a 5. El lugar consta con varios gazebos y un cafetin con frituras, dulces refrescos, cervezas, etc. Me gusta esta playa para los niños ya que sus aguas son de poca profundidad. Puede caminar 50 metros y el agua no le llega al pecho a una persona de 5"6".

facilidades y mucha sombra,muchas algas en el agua pero no importa.