Cannon Beach, Ore., on Oregon's North Coast, held its 59th annual Sandcastle Contest on Saturday, June 10th, 2023. Team Camp Castle built this elaborate castle, being breached by a sculpted octopus ...

The third annual Brigantine Beach Sand Castle Building Contest is taking place this Saturday, Aug. 18 at the 14th Street South beach in Brigantine. Registration begins at 11 a.m., judging is at 3 p.m.

What started with a simple sandcastle lesson has blossomed into a million-dollar tourist draw for one Texas beach community.

It’s a time honored tradition, probably as old as beaches themselves. Kids and kids-at-heart building castles in the sand. Add enterprising locals who see a summertime diversion with the introduction ...

On Saturday, Aug. 5, the Kids’ Sandcastle Competition will return to the Frisco Bay Marina for kids 12 years old and younger. Competitors will have from 10-11:30 a.m. to build their masterpieces.

Castles made of sand will rise from the strand once again Saturday during the 54th annual Sand Castle and Sculpture Contest at Crown Beach in Alameda. This is always a great family event, a tribute to ...

RACINE - For one family, multiple generations took part in the seventh annual sand castle building festival Sunday. But the women, all of Racine, didn't work together on a team. Lorna Hennig helped ...

When Viola Connelly and her friend Casey Metzler, both 10, enter the annual Saltaire Sandcastle Contest on Fire Island, the girls from Manhattan and Brooklyn choose a timely theme — they craft an ...

To some, sand is little more than the grainy stuff that gets caught between your toes during a day at the beach. But to others, it's a gritty, moldable building material that, when mixed with a bit of ...

It probably is impossible to determine when some child or adult piled up sand on the beach to make the first castle or other sculpture. But there is no doubting the mushrooming interest in the “art.” ...

A car fire tied up traffic on southbound State Route 51 near Bethany Home Road in central Phoenix on Thursday morning. Baseball, apple pie and fired chicken can arguably be called a staple of American ...

Next time you're at the beach, take a look around: You may spy a mermaid with long, tangled hair or a dragon with pointy ears and flared nostrils. If you get lucky, you'll come across an actual castle ...