Beaches · 51 miles of Great Lakes shore
Pennsylvania Great Lakes Beaches
13 beaches on Lake Erie, about 3 miles of listed shore.Pennsylvania tested the water at 9 of them in the 2025 season.
The standard
When Pennsylvania posts an advisory
Pennsylvania reports this bacteria standard to EPA for most of its Great Lakes beaches:
- E. coli, geometric mean: 126 per 100 mL
A sample over the line means an advisory or a closure until the water tests clean again. A single-sample limit applies to one day’s result; a geometric mean is an average over several samples, so one bad reading counts for less. How beach testing works →
Lake Erie 13
Erie County 13
- 1 East0.38 milesSampled twice a week
- Barracks Beach0.23 milesSampled twice a week
- Beach 1 Eastabout 210 feetNot sampled
- Beach 1 West Eastabout 210 feetNot sampled
- Beach 10 (Budny Beach)0.14 milesSampled twice a week
- Beach 110.28 milesSampled twice a week
- Beach 2about 210 feetNot sampled
- Beach 60.28 milesSampled twice a week
- Beach 7 (Water Works Beach)0.23 milesSampled twice a week
- Beach 8 (Pettinato Beach)0.38 milesSampled twice a week
- Beach 9 (Pine Tree Beach)about 210 feetSampled twice a week
- Freeport Beachabout 210 feetSampled once a week
- Mill Road Beaches1.0 milesNot sampled
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Data from EPA BEACON 2.0, National List of Beaches 2025, retrieved 2026-10-10. Charts are not for navigation. Corrections tocontact@greatamericanlakes.com.