[Baran013]

How much is parking at the IRI in season? I was planning on going down to v-beach for the weekend, but due to a family problem, will have to stay closer. Is anyone else going to be there on Thurs or Friday. It's supposed to rain.

 

[Thoroughbred]

I am heading down friday and staying until Tuesday. Hopefully the weather will scare a few away but the diehards will be there in force.

Parking isn't bad and was $5 for a day pass last year. Bathrooms close and the fishing can be really good.

Hope to catch some blues a tog or two and maybe even a striper

Dave

 

[HuskyMD]

I'm thinking about it...will probably stay closer to the MD bay though.

 

[Sandcrab]

Here's the link for prices.
http://www.destateparks.com/know/fees/entryfees/entryfee.htm

Active duty military (Resident or out of state) pay just $20 for the year.

I got my pass...

 

[RJohn]

Out of state $5/day and $40/year non-military.

 

[Baran013]

thanks for the info. If any of you are down there on wednesday evening or thursday. I will be parked in the lot with a black isuzu trooper. I will have my wife and child with me. Hopefully, they will go shopping when its raining.

 

[John K]

Hopefully, they will go shopping when its raining.

I'd rather go to Mogadishu or Beirut in the 1980s than the Outlet Malls in Rehoboth on a beach season day when it was raining.

One (weekday/non-holiday) afternoon a couple summers ago I decided I finally had to do my annual clothes shopping.

It happened to rain that day but I thought nothing of it. Then I got there and it was a war zone. Just unbelievable sea of humanity, clothes strewn everywhere on the floor like looters had been through. It took me 45 minutes to get out of the parking lot of one of the outlets because of the traffic.

Given the forecast for the entire weekend is temps in the 50s and rain, I can't even begin to imagine what the outlets will be like. I bet you could literally spend an hour or two simply trying to get into or out of one of them in a car.

Of course, I've never understood the whole going to the beach thing on Memorial Day or Labor Day weekend, either Memorial Day, especially. The water on the beaches right now is 52 degrees. But even in a normal weather year, on Memorial Day the water temps are pretty much always far too cold to go in the water. Fishing makes much more sense at least but man, I don't think I could stand any of the public shore fishing areas on one of the Holiday weekends.

 

[Billr]

now you know why us locals have short fuses in the summer. i live just off rte.1 across from a mall. what used to be a beautiful cornfield is now blacktop. the change in the last 15-20 yrs. is crazy. the greed of the developers is so bad they would build on their mothers grave. they have no thought or concern for local people. if they could , they drive us out and blacktop the whole area. they are even trying to take over the state parks to develope them. thereis no end to their greed.

 

[Sandcrab]

BillR,

And what's IRI going to look like when they get done developing it? Only time will tell. No more pristine North jetty fishing at night.

 

[HuskyMD]

I rented a condo in Dewey Beach for a week starting Memorial Day weekend two years ago. It was sunny, in the low to mid 70s and the water was nice. Of course it helps to be used to much colder temps than the mid 70s. Anything over 84 degrees is just too dang hot for me.

 

[FSH-N-HNT]

I stopped by IRI last week for the first time in 10 years and it is already over developed. I remember when it was all sand roads and no houses. I also noticed that they shortened the jetty. What was the reason for that?