Start from 23 curated places around Rehoboth Beach, DE, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Back Porch Cafe
A fine-dining institution in a converted Victorian cottage just off the boardwalk, serving the most polished New American cuisine on the Delaware coast for decades. The kitchen excels with local seafood — think grilled octopus, sweetbreads, and rabbit alongside pristine scallop preparations — in a candlelit room that feels genuinely special. The porch dining in warm weather is as atmospheric as the food.
Henlopen City Oyster House
A refined oyster bar and seafood restaurant a block from the boardwalk, sourcing from East and West Coast beds and pairing them with thoughtful cocktails and an extensive beer list. The raw bar is the main event but the cooked seafood is taken seriously too. The relaxed-upscale atmosphere works equally well for a date night or a solo seat at the bar.
Trails & outdoors
Junction and Breakwater Trail
A 5.8-mile rail trail on crushed stone connecting Rehoboth Beach to Lewes through coastal scrub, pine forest, and open meadow. The flat, wide surface handles bikes, joggers, and walkers simultaneously without friction. It's the most practical active transportation link between the two towns and a genuinely scenic route through terrain that looks nothing like the beachfront.
Gordons Pond Trail
A 2.6-mile paved and natural-surface loop inside Cape Henlopen State Park that runs along the edge of Gordons Pond through maritime shrub and salt marsh with consistent shorebird and waterfowl activity. Bikes are permitted and the flat terrain makes it accessible for all levels. The pond side of the trail has wooden observation areas overlooking good bird habitat.
Things to do
Clear Space Theatre Company
Rehoboth's year-round professional theater company, producing musicals, comedies, and dramas in an intimate space on Baltimore Avenue through the full calendar. The programming is ambitious for a beach market, and productions consistently draw well beyond the tourist season into fall and winter. It's the arts anchor of the community.
Rehoboth Beach Bandstand
The historic open-air bandstand behind the boardwalk hosts a full summer schedule of free concerts — big band, pop, and tribute acts — that draw a multigenerational crowd on warm evenings. It's been the community gathering point for summer entertainment for decades and the free admission makes it accessible to everyone. Bring a lawn chair and stay for the whole set.
Landmarks & sights
Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk
The mile-long classic wooden boardwalk running along the Atlantic beach is the organizing spine of Rehoboth — the place where the whole community congregates at all hours. Thrasher's French Fries, funnel cake stands, and storefront shops line the inland side while the beach stretches out to the east. The boardwalk is at its best at dawn before the crowds, and at sunset when the light turns the whole thing golden.
Funland
A family-owned amusement park on the boardwalk since 1962, with 19 rides, midway games, and an arcade in a compact footprint where the rides are close enough to the beach that you can hear the waves. The Haunted Mansion and the classic carousel are the most beloved features. Funland operates on a ticket system and feels exactly like a 1960s boardwalk park should — deliberate anachronism.