Phillips Beach on Ocean Avenue has swimming, a lifeguard on duty 7 days a week from late June to mid-August, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. There is resident parking on Ocean Avenue; a sticker is required.

Palmer Pond and the surrounding wetlands comprise an almost eighteen-acre wildlife conservation area just beyond the barrier dunes of Phillips Beach. This thickly reedy area features a biodiverse growth of cattails and beach plums, cord grass, and beach rose, with layers of peat that were deposited back when the area was a marsh. Palmer Pond is accessed through the end of Ocean Avenue near Phillips Beach, or from the soft, dimply sands of the beach itself.