The Halifax Regional Municipality regrets to advise residents that the Clam Harbour Beach Sandcastle Competition has been cancelled. The event was scheduled to take place on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025.
Residents’ safety is the municipality’s top priority. This annual event typically attracts around 10,000 people to a rural area of the municipality, accessible by a single lane road. Municipal staff have determined that, with continued dry conditions and no immediate rain in the forecast, the risk is too high to safely move forward with the event.
Clam Harbour Beach is located within Clam Harbour Provincial Park. While the beach remains open to the public, the surrounding wooded park area is closed in accordance with the province’s restrictions on travel and activities in the woods.
About the event:
The sandcastle and sand sculpturing contest attracts over 10,000 people every year to the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. There are cash prizes for various categories.
View winners from past years and other pictures on the Clam Harbour Beach Sandcastle Competition Facebook page. We hope to see you in 2026.
Photo credit: Stoo Metz
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