Events
Chicago Full Moon Jam at Foster Beach
This event takes place 1/4 mile south of Foster Beach at 5100 N. Simonds Drive.
Chicago Full Moon Jam at Foster Beach
This event takes place 1/4 mile south of Foster Beach at 5100 N. Simonds Drive.
5200 N. Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
at Foster Avenue and Lake Michigan
The beach is open from 6 am to 11 pm, but swimming is only permitted during the beach season when lifeguards are on duty from 11 am to 7 pm, in designated swim areas. The beach season runs from the Friday before Memorial Day, through Labor Day.
Foster Beach is located at 5200 N. Lake Shore Drive (at Foster Avenue and Lake Michigan) in Lincoln Park. Amenities include a beach house with food concessions, bike rentals and restrooms. Distance swimming is from Center Tower to north end of beach, parallel to shore at boat line. Pay and display parking lot is available along with ADA accessible beach walk.
Swimming Distance: center tower to north end of beach, parallel to shore at boat line
For questions regarding Chicago beaches, email beaches3@chicagoparkdistrict.com.
A surprising amount of what is now Lincoln Park is made from landfill. Lincoln Park’s final landfill extension was completed in the 1950s between Foster Avenue and Ardmore Avenue, and the fill included a new beach at Foster Avenue.
Planning and design for the extension started in 1947, but construction and fill did not begin until three years later. The fill project continued over the majority of the decade, and finally finished in 1958.
E.V Buchsbaum designed the beach house for the site, which was constructed between the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1990s, a new beach house provided improved facilities and amenities.
Parking
Pay & display parking lot
Get rates and additional information.
Public Transit
The following public bus & train routes serve this beach:
CTA Bus Routes:
147 Outer Drive Express
151 Sheridan
CTA Red Line Station:
Berwyn
Foster & Lakeshore drive
Chicago, IL 60640
United States
Foster & Lakeshore drive
Chicago, IL 60640
United States
This event takes place 1/4 mile south of Foster Beach at 5100 N. Simonds Drive.
This event takes place 1/4 mile south of Foster Beach at 5100 N. Simonds Drive.