La Prairie Public Beach

What sets it apart

La Prairie is one of the four major public beaches whose leisure amenities are being gradually upgraded, along with Mont Choisy, Flic en Flac and Belle Mare. Its upgrade provides for a car park for some fifty-six vehicles, surfaced with permeable decorative hollow blocks filled with crushed coral, spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility, a pavement, lighting, low decorative stone walls and more than two hundred ornamental plants, hurricane palms and bottle palms among them.

The mood

In the longer term, the modernisation of the existing car park, new toilet blocks, a food court and landscaping are planned. On busy public holidays La Prairie is one of the seven beaches covered by the south-west patrol ambulance, based at Saint-Félix public beach.

Highlights

• Three sections, public since 1991 and 2013
• 11.7 hectares and close to 1.3 kilometres of shoreline in all
• One of the four major beaches whose leisure amenities are being gradually upgraded
• Car park for some fifty-six vehicles, spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility, pavement
• Surface of permeable decorative hollow blocks filled with crushed coral
• In the longer term: new toilet blocks and a food court

Good to know

• The new toilet blocks and the food court are planned for the longer term: do not count on them from the outset.
• No emergency post is stationed here on public holidays: the patrol ambulance is based at Saint-Félix and covers seven beaches.
• The car park plan reserves spaces for people with reduced mobility.

Getting there

The beach lies on the south-west coast, in the Rivière Noire district, north of Le Morne. The upgrade provides for a car park for some fifty-six vehicles, with spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility and a pavement. No emergency post is stationed here on public holidays: the patrol ambulance covering La Prairie is based at Saint-Félix.