Updated on November 22, 2025
Gold Coast and local community groups have made significant progress in making many beaches more inclusive, and that includes rolling out beach matting, beach wheelchairs, and improving facilities.
Here are 10 accessible beaches near the Gold Coast and Logan area that are useful for NDIS families, with easy accessibility details across parking, ramps, toilets, and assistance services.
1. Surfers Paradise Beach
Surfers Paradise beach is a seaside resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast in eastern Australia with a three-kilometre strip of golden sand. Its life-saving club is wheelchair accessible from the street with parking, automatic entry doors, and a lift to the restaurant, bar, and gaming rooms.
There is a dedicated parking space near the surf club, and the Surfers Paradise Surf Life Saving Club provides automatic entry doors, an accessible lift, and a disabled toilet. During patrol season as well, there is beach matting laid, and they also lend out beach wheelchairs on Sundays.
The beach is friendly for NDIS families because it has an excellent infrastructure, a reliable volunteer support, and good facilities for changing.
2. Broadbeach / Kurrawa (Kurrawa Surf Club)
Kurrawa is an accessible beach on the Gold Coast and is a wheelchair friendly venue with lift access & disabled toilets in the level 1 bistro area. Its cafe (Tower 28) is located outdoors on ground level and has easy access for wheelchairs as well.
At Kurrawa Beach, the surf club provides a sandcruiser beach wheelchair for loan from Mondays through to Fridays. Although the beach does not have beach matting, there is a changing toilet with a height-adjustable bench and hoist, plus an accessible beach shower. There is also accessible parking nearby, around 100 m from the surf club.
The beach has very good assistance for wheelchairs, good toilets, moderate ramp/sand access, and decent parking.
3. Burleigh Heads Beach
Burleigh Heads Beach is committed to ensuring everyone is able to enjoy their holiday and has the best knowledge to make an informed decision on their stay. And because of that, they provide wheelchair access on Saturdays, Sundays & Public Holidays from the start of Patrols at 9 am – 4 pm.
They also provide rubber matting across the soft sand to the hard sand, and this aids in providing a firm, supportive base for wheelchairs, prams, walking, and mobility aids. Its access point is in front of the Surf Life Saving Club’s clubhouse. Depending on the tide, the matting may not always reach the water; however, it will reach the hard sand.
The beach has strong assistance with wheelchairs and matting, and they also have good toilets, parking, and a reasonable ramp/sand access via the matting.
Note: Anyone is allowed to use the matting, but it is particularly helpful for people in wheelchairs and prams, to aid their walking and mobility to pass over the soft sand and get to the hard sand.
4. Tallebudgera Creek (Creek side)
Tallebudgera Creek is a well-known area on the Gold Coast in and it is known for its calm, crystal-clear waters that are great for swimming, paddleboarding, and kayaking.
The beach is located between Burleigh Heads National Park and Palm Beach, and is well-equipped with amenities like picnic tables, barbecues, and lifeguards. There is a public footpath around the creek, under the motorway from the park to Neptune Beach, which makes for gentle, accessible access.
The beach has a tourist park that has beach wheelchairs and deploys beach matting every Saturday during patrol season. It also has accessible bathrooms that are available in the park, with rails, a fold-down bench seat, and handheld shower heads.
Above all, it has excellent assistance via wheelchairs, very good ramp/pathway access, good toilets, and moderate parking.
5. Main Beach
Main Beach is a place where coastal charm meets laid-back luxury, just minutes from the heart of the Gold Coast. It is your perfect base to experience everything that Main Beach has to offer, whether it’s catching waves at local surf spots or enjoying waterfront dining experiences.
A highlight of the beach is the old bathing pavilion, Pavilion 34 to be precise, which has been reincarnated as a casual beach café complete with chikko rolls, potato scallops, pineapple fritters, and fish and chips.
Main Beach has good access from nearby car parks and accessible toilets in the area. According to the City of Gold Coast’s accessible beach plans, custom-built wheelchair-accessible showers have been installed. The beach also has good assistance via wheelchair hire, good toilets, a decent ramp/access, and reasonable parking.
6. Broadwater Parklands (Southport)
Broadwater Parklands is a world-class community and cultural parkland, loved by Gold Coast residents and tourists alike. At its heart is a vast expanse of green that is ideal for family picnics and fun.
While it’s not a surf beach, Broadwater Parklands offers permanent access matting and paved paths that make the water’s edge very reachable, especially for wheelchairs. It has a changing toilet facility in the park for people who need more space and equipment to change.
It also has good parking spaces, accessible bays, and the park’s pathways are very well maintained. Overall, it has an excellent ramp/access via paths and matting, a great toilet, strong parking, and moderate assistance (no surf club wheelchairs, but matting helps).
7. Mermaid Beach
Mermaid Beach is a coastal suburb of the city of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, and is generally much quieter in contrast to its busy neighbours in Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise.
This is due to the majority of the beaches here being fronted by homes and units. An example is Hedges Avenue, which runs parallel to the beach and has a dedicated pedestrian and bike lane, providing access to the beach at cross streets.
Mermaid Beach has been included in the accessible beach infrastructure rollout – matting is laid out every Sunday during patrol season by volunteers and the surf club. The beach also has accessible showers and changing rooms, including custom wheelchair-accessible shower facilities.
It is also equipped with good assistance (matting and volunteers), has good toilets/showers, moderate parking, and solid ramp/sand access (during patrol).
8. Palm Beach
The Palm Beach is located between Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek. Many times, surfers and sunbathers flock to Palm Beach for its wide, sandy, and spectacular beach.
There is also a variety of eating options here, and its accommodation options consist of everything up to the top end of town. Palm Beach has designated disabled parking next to Andy Frizzell Park and disabled toilets in the park.
There is also a curved sealed path from the park leading down to the beach, and a ramp on the side of the surf club building for wheelchair access. The Beach has good ramp/access, good parking, good toilets, but beach-wheelchair or matting assistance isn’t available as much.
9. Kirra Beach
Kirra Beach is a popular surf spot located in Coolangatta and is famous for its legendary right-hand point break known as the Superbank. The beach also provides calmer, protected waters for swimming and features the scenic Kirra Point, a wooden boardwalk, and parklands with amenities.
It has clear, level access from the car park into the tourist park’s reception, and accessible paths throughout the park. The park provides an easy-access bathroom, and paths from the park to the beach are wheelchair-friendly.
The surf club at Kirra / nearby areas provides ramps, although there is no formal beach wheelchair program noted in the accessible tourism guide.
It also has strong ramp/access and toilets, reasonable parking, and limited assistance (no clear matting or beach wheelchair).
10. Ian Dipple Lagoon
Ian Dipple Lagoon is located on Marine Parade in Labrador on the northern Gold Coast. It is a sheltered, saltwater lagoon protected from strong waves and boat traffic by a sandbank, making it particularly safe and family-friendly.
The Lagoon offers a beach wheelchair available and even a walker on certain days, and it is policed by the Gold Coast City Council on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The area also includes permanent ramp access down to the beach so that people using wheelchairs can reach the sand safely.
It has accessible parking, although it may be busy; the pathways are good, and it has a permanent ramp to the beach. The Lagoon also has good accessible toilets and changing rooms.
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