Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Official seal of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Location in Sussex County and the state of Delaware.
Location in Sussex County and the state of Delaware.
Rehoboth Beach is positioned in Delaware Rehoboth Beach - Rehoboth Beach Rehoboth Beach is a town/city along the Delaware Beaches in easterly Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was 1,327, reflecting a diminish of 161 (11.2%) from the 1,488 counted in the 2000 Census. Along with the neighboring coastal town/city of Lewes, Rehoboth Beach is one of the principal metros/cities of Delaware's quickly growing Cape Region.
Rehoboth Beach lies inside the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
A prominent regional vacation destination, Rehoboth Beach's cyclic populace expands to over 25,000 inside the town/city limits and thousands more in the encircling area in the summer. In 2011, the NRDC awarded Rehoboth Beach with a 5-Star rating in water character.
This award was given only to 12 other locations, one being neighboring Dewey Beach. Out of the 30 states with coastline, the Delaware Beaches ranked number one in water character in 2011. Historical marker displaying brief history of Rehoboth Beach Human beings probably inhabited the region of Rehoboth Beach as long ago as 10,000 BC; little is known about them because much of the evidence of their existence has been finished by development.
The town/city was established in 1873 as the Rehoboth Beach Camp Meeting Association by the Rev.
The Camp Meeting Association disbanded in 1881, and in 1891, the locale was incorporated by the Delaware General Assembly as "Henlopen City", shortly after which it was retitled to Rehoboth Beach.
Hence the name may have had a special appeal for the theological framers of the city, although the adjoining bay had already borne the name Rehoboth for at least a century before the town was founded. Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, looking north Outside of Rehoboth Beach along Delaware Route 1 are the Tanger Outlets, which operates three different locations along the highway. Still famous for its beaches, wooden boardwalk, eclectic shops, amusements, and sporting activities, today's Rehoboth Beach is also known as one of the mid-Atlantic coast's prominent gay-friendly getaways because of the large number of gay-owned and directed businesses and because of the gay-frequented stretch of beach near Queen Street, known as Poodle Beach. Rehoboth Beach has a cyclic beach patrol who are in charge of lifeguarding the one and a half miles that make up the town's beach front.
Rehoboth Beach looking north Rehoboth Beach serves as a relaxing alternative to close-by and much more advanced Ocean City, Maryland.
Reader's Digest titled the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk as "Best of America".
Additionally, AARP has titled Rehoboth Beach as one of five dream suburbs as "Best Places to Retire". The town has a several celebrations including the Sea Witch Festival, the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival, and the Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival every year.
Dogfish Head Brewery's initial brewpub is positioned on the town's chief strip Rehoboth Avenue.
The locale has grown in years as a prominent destination for American craft beer enthusiasts. Grotto Pizza was established in Rehoboth Beach in 1960 and has grown to 23 locations throughout the state of Delaware along with parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania. In 2011, the town/city passed a smoking ban covering parks and playgrounds, but sparing the beach and boardwalk. A view of the beach at Delaware Avenue.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which, 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2) of it is territory and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2) of it (28.48%) is water.
Rehoboth Beach is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the town of Henlopen Acres, and on the west and south by unincorporated portions of Sussex County.
Cape Henlopen State Park lies just to the north of Rehoboth Beach, and Dewey Beach is just to its south. Situated on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Rehoboth Beach's weather is moderated by the Atlantic Ocean and the Rehoboth Bay.
Rehoboth Beach has a mild subtropical climate consisting of hot, humid summers and cool winters.
The average daytime high in July is 87 F (30.6 C) and a low of 70 F (21 C); in January, the average high is 45 F (7 C) with an average low of 30 F (-1 C) The month of highest average rainfall is July with 4.78 inches of rain, while February is historically the driest month, receiving an average of only 3.23 inches (80.5 mm) of rain. The highest official temperature ever recorded in Rehoboth Beach was 102 F (38.8 C) in 1997.
The lowest official temperature ever recorded in Rehoboth Beach was -11 F (-28.8 C) in 1982.
Climate data for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware DART First State Beach Bus in Rehoboth Beach Delaware Route 1 (Coastal Highway) does not enter Rehoboth Beach, instead skirting the town to the south and west.
Delaware Route 1 - A crosses through Rehoboth Beach in an L shape, running east from DE 1 and heading athwart a drawbridge over the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal into the city, where it heads east along Rehoboth Avenue to 2nd Street, then south along 2nd Street, Bayard Avenue, and Silver Lake Drive to another junction with DE 1 in Dewey Beach.
Delaware Route 1 - B provides another route into Rehoboth Beach via State Road, connecting to DE 1 south of a high-level crossing of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal. On-street parking in the downtown region is regulated by parking meters from the Friday before Memorial Day to the second Sunday after Labor Day. Between the Friday before Memorial Day and Labor Day, parking permits are required for all non-metered on-street parking spaces in Rehoboth Beach. A parking lot is also available at Deauville Beach in the northern part of the city, with parking permits required between the Friday before Memorial Day and the second Sunday after Labor Day. The Delaware Department of Transportation operates a Park and Ride just outside the town/city limits, along Route 1. During the peak summer months, DART First State operates Beach Bus service that provides incessant service in and out of the town/city and to the rest of the Delaware Beaches region and to Ocean City, Maryland, where it joins to the Ocean City Beach Bus, from the Park and Ride lot. On summer weekends, DART First State operates the Route 305 "Beach Connection" service, which runs from Wilmington to the Park and Ride outside Rehoboth Beach, with intermediate stops at the Christiana Mall, Middletown, Dover, and the Lewes Transit Center. DART First State also operates the year-round Route 206 service running between Rehoboth Beach and Georgetown via Lewes and the year-round Route 215 service which joins Rehoboth Beach with Millsboro. The Delaware River and Bay Authority operates a shuttle bus in the summer months that runs from the Rehoboth Beach Park and Ride to the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, which provides ferry service athwart the Delaware Bay to Cape May, New Jersey. The Jolly Trolley is a private shuttle service that provides incessant transport in Rehoboth Beach and to neighboring Dewey Beach.
Best - Bus offers intercity bus service to Rehoboth Beach from Union Station and Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.
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