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Beaches, Dutch heritage, a historic lightship and a ferry to New Jersey on Delaware’s coast.
Lewes’s most popular attraction has white-sand beaches, surfing, biking, fishing and camping, plus a charming lighthouse.
Modeled on a town hall in Hoorn, this Dutch-style museum covers the area’s maritime and settler history. Plan on an hour or two.
This white-sand beach near Cape Henlopen is popular for swimming and boating, and it is a nice spot to watch the sunrise.
One of the last remaining lightships of its kind is now a floating maritime museum, with guided tours above and below deck.
An easy, pine-lined trail of about six miles round trip follows an old rail line through farmland and wetlands.
The 20-mile crossing of Delaware Bay to New Jersey offers indoor and outdoor seating and frequent dolphin and seabird sightings.
This World War II coastal defense on the Great Dune preserves artillery batteries, huge guns and a museum of armaments.
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