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Pine Point Beach is a four-mile municipal beach located on the northern edge of
Saco Bay Saco Bay is a small curved embayment of the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic coast of Maine in the United States. The name derives "from a map of the coastline made in 1525 by the Spanish explorer Esteban Gómez. He named the bay ''Bahio de Saco'' ...
in
Scarborough, Maine Scarborough is a New England town, town in Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. The town is a coastal resort area. Located about south of Portland, Maine, Portland, Scarborough is part of t ...
, United States. It spans the outlet of the
Scarborough River Scarborough River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 30, 2011 coastal estuary and river draining through the Scarborough Marsh in Scarborough, Maine. It empties in ...
. It covers a total of just over three acres and has 7,000 feet of sandy ocean frontage. It also includes a sensitive sand dune system and a significant number of nearby commercial and residential buildings.


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Beaches of Maine Scarborough, Maine Landforms of Cumberland County, Maine {{Maine-geo-stub