Wabasso Beach Park Visitor Guide

Wabasso Beach Park sits at 1820 Wabasso Beach Road on County Road 510, and Indian River County lists it as a 0.46 acre park open daily from 7 a.m. to sunset.

The mailing address reads Vero Beach, FL 32963, and the park sits on the ocean beach of the barrier island (Indian River County), which the mainland reaches over CR 510, the Wabasso Causeway (Indian River County). Wabasso Beach Road and CR 510 are the same road: the county lists Wabasso Causeway Park, on the lagoon crossing, at 3105 Wabasso Beach Road (CR 510) (Indian River County). From Sebastian, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service route to the island uses County Road 512 (Sebastian Boulevard), then 90th Avenue, then straight onto County Road 510 toward A1A (USFWS).

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the Indian River County website (Wabasso Beach Park page).

Lifeguards are on duty at Wabasso Beach Park from 9:10 a.m. to 4:50 p.m., and the tower can be reached at 772-268-4732.

Indian River County also lists a beach condition hotline, 772-226-3384, for surf and beach status before a drive out from Sebastian or Roseland (Indian River County). The guarded area changes one beach rule: at Wabasso Beach, fishing is allowed only outside the guarded swimming zone, while surfing, scuba diving, sunbathing and picnicking are allowed during park hours.

Wabasso Beach shares its 9:10 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. lifeguard schedule with Golden Sands Beach Park at 10350 Highway A1A (Indian River County). Treasure Shores Park, three miles north of CR 510, has shade and a playground but no lifeguards (Indian River County).

Wabasso Beach Park packs 2 pavilions, 2 grills, 4 picnic tables, restrooms, outdoor showers, a boardwalk, a bike rack and an ADA crossover onto less than half an acre.

The Wabasso Beach lot is small: 34 parking spaces plus 4 handicap spaces, with one drinking fountain (Indian River County). That is about a quarter of the 128 spaces the county lists at Golden Sands Beach Park (Indian River County), so on a busy weekend the practical fallback for a Wabasso Beach trip is the larger guarded lot at Golden Sands, which runs the same lifeguard hours. The county bike rack at Wabasso Beach Park is an option for riders coming over the Wabasso Causeway.

The county code travels with every Wabasso Beach visit. Pets are barred under Ordinance 205.03.22 and alcohol under 205.03.26, and the park page also rules out fires, tents, horses, fireworks, remote controlled aircraft, golf and parking overnight (Indian River County). Visitors are asked to stay off the vegetated dunes west of the open beach.

On the lagoon side of the same road, Wabasso Causeway Park offers a boat ramp and river beaches, and the Pelican Island refuge trails start 3.7 miles north of CR 510 off A1A.

Indian River County lists Wabasso Causeway Park at 13.4 acres in four lobes along the causeway, with 9 pavilions, 9 grills, 14 picnic tables and a boat ramp on the south-east lobe that is 6 feet deep at its end (Indian River County). The county lists its river beaches for wading, fishing and canoes, a lagoon contrast with the ocean surf at Wabasso Beach.

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge places its public use areas on the Historic Jungle Trail, 3.7 miles north of Wabasso Beach Road (CR 510) or 3.3 miles south of Sebastian Inlet, and says they open daily from 7:30 a.m. until sunset, although the hours box on the same page reads sunrise to sunset; the Centennial Trail address is 11455 Jungle Trail (USFWS). A Wabasso Beach morning and a Jungle Trail walk fit into the same trip from Sebastian.

Yes, Indian River County streams a live Wabasso Beach Cam, run by a third-party contractor for the county Natural Resources and Parks, Recreation and Conservation departments.

The county states that the Wabasso Beach Cam video is not recorded and is only a live feed (Indian River County Coastal Engineering). Paired with the beach condition hotline listed on the park page, the camera is the quickest way to check crowds and surf at Wabasso Beach Park before leaving Sebastian (Indian River County). Because nothing is archived, the camera cannot be used to look back at earlier conditions.

Wabasso Beach marks the south end of the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, and Indian River County beaches are under sea turtle nesting season from March 1 through October 31.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service describes the refuge as 20.5 miles of beach and shoreline from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach, set up in 1991 and named for Dr. Archie Carr, Jr. (USFWS, Archie Carr). It was designated to protect the most significant loggerhead nesting area in the world, and it is also a minor nesting area for the leatherback, one of the largest and rarest sea turtles.

Indian River County says loggerhead, green and leatherback turtles all lay nests on its beaches each year, and that Florida law (section 379.2431) bars disturbing turtles, nests or eggs. Nest monitoring partners the county thanks by name include Sebastian Inlet State Park and the Sebastian Inlet District (Indian River County). At Wabasso Beach Park the county asks visitors to fill in holes before leaving, carry trash to the cans and call the FWC at 1-888-404-3922 about any injured or dead sea turtle, noting the exact location and the closest access (Indian River County).

Yes, Indian River County names Wabasso Beach among the areas threatened in the 9.5-mile critically eroded segment that starts south of Sebastian Inlet.

The county coastal engineering page lists that northern segment as range monuments R-1 to R-51.3 and says erosion there threatens State Road A1A, Sebastian Inlet State Park facilities, the McLarty Treasure Museum and development along Ambersand Beach, Sanderling, Summer Place and Wabasso Beach (Indian River County Coastal Engineering). As of 2025, FDEP counted 19.3 of the county's 22.4 shoreline miles as critically eroded.

County beach Sector 3 is the 6.6-mile stretch from half a mile north of Treasure Shores Beach Park to half a mile south of the Turtle Trail Beach Access, and the county Beach Preservation Plan calls for renourishment there every 5 to 7 years (Indian River County Coastal Engineering). Treasure Shores itself is three miles north of CR 510 (Indian River County). Beach width on this coast can shift between projects, which is one more reason to check the live camera first.