Higgins Beach in Maine is a popular destination for Surfers in New England. Along with a few other destinations nearby including the narrow coast of New Hampshire, Higgins provides one of the top quality surf breaks between Boston and Portland, a few hundred miles of coastline.

Currently there's a battle raging in the town of Higgins Beach, a hamlet that's adjacent to the larger town of Scarborough regarding parking.

Currently there's a parking ban in effect from April 1st through October 1st. However, residents of Higgins are now calling for additional rules in the off season that would limit parking at the Higgins Beach public access lot to a few 30 minute spaces.

Anyone who surfs would essentially be forced to suffer the risk of a parking ticket any time you paddled out.

Those advocating the change are an ad-hoc committee of a handful of local residents who are concerned that the quality of life in their beach community has been eroded by too much traffic and surfers de-robing in public.

The local Surfrider chapter is involved trying to mitigate the effects of this looming parking regulation that will have a huge negative impact for surfers in the region.

Here are a couple links that shed more light on the scenario. Lend your voice if you care about surf access anywhere, but especially along the coast of Maine.

http://www.keepmecurrent.com/news/article_7f7e73e2-d6ee-11df-bfc0-001cc4c03286.html

http://www.facebook.com/SaveHiggins

Higgins Beach offers surfers some of the best waves
along Maine's coastline.

Higgins Beach, Maine is a popular destination for surfers throughout New England. Along with a few other destinations including the narrow coast of New Hampshire, Higgins provides one of the few top quality surf breaks between Boston and Portland, ME - over 100 miles of coastline.

Currently there's a battle raging in Higgins Beach (a hamlet that's adjacent to the larger town of Scarborough) regarding parking.

Historically a parking ban goes into effect from April 1st through October 1st. However, residents of Higgins are now calling for additional rules in the off-season that would limit parking at the Higgins public access lot to a few 30 minute spaces.

Anyone who surfs would essentially be forced to suffer the risk of a parking ticket any time you paddled out.

Those advocating the change are an ad-hoc committee of a handful of local residents who are concerned that the quality of life in their beach community has been eroded by too much traffic and surfers de-robing in public.

The local Surfrider chapter is involved trying to mitigate the effects of this looming parking regulation that will have a huge negative impact for surfers in the region.

Here are a couple links that shed more light on the scenario. Lend your voice if you care about surf access anywhere, but especially along the coast of Maine.

http://www.facebook.com/SaveHiggins

http://www.keepmecurrent.com/news/article_7f7e73e2-d6ee-11df-bfc0-001cc4c03286.html

Surfrider.org/nne

http://www.theforecaster.net/content/s-scarhigginsbch-102910