This is a fairly current aerial photo of the Rouge Beach. It didn't look like this when I was a kid in the 1970's. People used to drive under the railway bridge and use the beach. There was some parking there. I can remember a little building which had a public washroom. It's still a very long beach. Though ownership has changed and I don't know if some of it is blocked off now. I do know the road going under the bridge was closed off. Now you can park on the other side.

I can see a large building on the beach side now. It was not there before. I've never seen it up close to know what it is.

On the marshy side, there is a lot more parking than there ever was before. It looks strange to see it. Before it was mainly just a dirt road with the marshy area right at the road, just a foot or so from the road. Cars would park at the side of the road, trying to leave room for other cars driving to the beach. People would go fishing in the marshy water. It used to smell like fish. I wonder if it still does, if there are any fish left. Sometimes herons would fly in too. Frogs, all those wildlife, that likely are not there now.

I don't know what year this photo was taken (Parks Canada). It must be about 2020 I'd guess.

It looks like the bridge is still there, crossing from Rouge Beach into Pickering. It was not an old bridge, built about the time I was in high school, the 1980s. Or not long after that. It was at the narrow part of the water between the beach and the marshy area. It has a long ramp for disabled access which was not there when I last visited the area.