Chapters
Local crews holding the seat at the spots they ride. Each chapter is one location, with one guide, one stewardship cadence and one voice to the people who set the rules.
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Florida Keys
Curry HammockActiveLong KeyOpenVeterans Memorial BeachOpenBig Pine KeyOpenMiami
Matheson HammockActiveCrandon ParkActivePuro MiamiOpenGulf Coast
South PadreOpenCorpus ChristiOpenPensacolaOpenFort De SotoOpenUS East Coast
Cape HatterasOpenKalmus, Cape CodOpenLong IslandOpenAvon and Waves, OBXOpenTybee IslandOpenIsle of PalmsOpenVirginia BeachOpenDewey BeachOpenMiddletown and NewportOpenGreat Lakes
MuskegonOpenSheboyganOpenClevelandOpenUS West Coast
Hood RiverOpenSherman IslandOpenCrissy FieldOpenJetty IslandOpenLake TahoeOpenHawaii
Kanaha, MauiOpenKailuaOpenCanada
SquamishOpenNitinat LakeOpenÎles de la MadeleineOpenMexico
CancúnOpenLa VentanaOpenCaribbean and Central America
CabareteOpenPunta ChameOpenBrasil
CumbucoOpenJericoacoaraOpenTaíbaOpenIlha do GuajiruOpenSouth America
ParacasOpenEurope
TarifaOpenFuerteventuraOpenPozo IzquierdoOpenCosta TeguiseOpenLeucateOpenLake GardaOpenPunta TrettuOpenPrasonisiOpenAlaçatıOpenHvide SandeOpenBrouwersdamOpenFehmarnOpenAfrica
DakhlaOpenLe MorneOpenEl GounaOpenBlouberg, Cape TownOpenEssaouiraOpenLangebaanOpenPaje, ZanzibarOpenSalOpenMiddle East
MasirahOpenAsia and Oceania
KalpitiyaOpenMui NeOpenSafety Bay, PerthOpenEvery kind of spot
Locations come in a few kinds. The kind sets how access works and what stewardship looks like; each chapter adds its own facts.
State parks
Protected land with published rules, ranger staff and a fee at the gate. Riders come for open flats and steady trade winds. The park comes first.
County parks and public beaches
Public shorelines a short drive from where people live. Busy, close and easy to reach after work.
City chapters
One chapter for a whole bay or city, speaking for every wind sport across many parks and agencies.
Community bases
A base without a launch: classroom room, gear clinics and the place riders organise from.
International destinations
World-class wind on the trade-wind belts, often inside protected areas that make the access worth guarding.
All chapters
Curry Hammock
The park already draws riders from across the state. The chapter is here to keep it that way.
Matheson Hammock
Miami-Dade's first county park, a tide-flushed atoll pool, and flat bay water a few minutes from the city.
Crandon Park
Eight hundred acres across the top of Key Biscayne, two miles of beach, and a sandbar that flattens the water.
Long Key
Nine hundred and sixty-five acres between the Atlantic and Florida Bay, with a lagoon you can paddle in an hour.
Veterans Memorial Beach
Oceanside at the west end of the Seven Mile Bridge. Free to park, free to walk on, flats that run out forever.
Big Pine Key
A waterfront community park with eleven thousand square feet of indoor room and no way into the water.
Puro Miami
A city chapter for the bay, not a single beach. Miami already rides. It just does it without a voice at the table.
Cumbuco
Cumbuco sits on the equatorial trade-wind belt — southeast trades blowing 18–25 knots, July through January, almost without fail.
Cancún
Two spots in one chapter: Laguna Nichupté behind the Hotel Zone, and Isla Blanca's flat-water lagoon 25 km north.
Hood River
The river that taught a generation to ride the wind. Two launches share one shoreline here, and the line between them holds because riders keep it.
Cape Hatteras
Thirty miles of shallow sound on one side, the Atlantic on the other, and wind from almost every direction. Hatteras Island is one of the great kiting coasts of the world, and nearly all of it is national seashore.
Tarifa
Europe's wind capital, where the Levante and Poniente funnel through the Strait of Gibraltar and Africa sits across the water.
Kanaha, Maui
Trade winds, warm water and an airport next door. Kanaha has drawn windsurfers and kiters for decades, and it stays open because riders keep to a tight set of rules.
Cabarete
A Caribbean bay where the trade wind fills in most afternoons and a whole town grew up around the kite beach.
Jericoacoara
Dunes, lagoons and a fishing village inside a national park, with the trade winds blowing half the year. Jericoacoara and nearby Preá are on every kiter's list, and the rules here already decide who rides where.
Dakhla
A long, shallow lagoon between the desert and the Atlantic, with wind on most days of the year. Kite camps line its northern end and draw riders from around the world.
Le Morne
A shallow lagoon under a basalt mountain, with world-class reef waves just outside. Le Morne is two spots in one, and the line between them is where riders get into trouble.
La Ventana
A fishing village on the Sea of Cortez where the winter north wind funnels between the mountains. La Ventana fills with kites every November, and the village and the riders have to make room for each other.
El Gouna
A Red Sea resort town built around lagoons, with shallow flat water and a north wind most of the year. It is a favourite place to learn, and riding here runs through the kite centers.
Blouberg, Cape Town
Table Mountain across the bay, the Cape Doctor on the beach. Blouberg is where riders from all over the world come to spend the southern summer, and the beach space they share is tighter than it looks.
Sherman Island
Summer heat in the Central Valley pulls ocean air through the Delta, and on most afternoons it lands right on Sherman Island. Windsurfers and kiters have shared these levee beaches for decades, under rules they wrote themselves.
Crissy Field
Kiting under the Golden Gate Bridge sounds like a postcard, but it is one of the hardest launches in the country: strong tides, gusty inside air and a shipping lane just outside. It works because the riders who use it know exactly what they are doing.
South Padre
Waist-deep water for miles on the Laguna Madre, Gulf waves on the other side of the island, and wind most of the year. South Padre has some of the best learning water in the country, and only a narrow strip of public bayside beach to reach it from.
Corpus Christi
Steady wind, warm shallow water and miles of Laguna Madre make the Corpus Christi coast one of the best flatwater areas in the country. Windsurfers have Bird Island Basin; kiters are not allowed in the national seashore and ride the city's bays instead.
Kalmus, Cape Cod
On summer afternoons the southwest sea breeze fills in across Nantucket Sound and Kalmus turns into Cape Cod's busiest kite and windsurf beach. Riders share it with swimmers, lifeguards and the Hyannis ferries, on rules that are mostly informal.
Long Island
Long Island has miles of ocean beach, a long shallow bay and summer sea breezes, and almost nowhere that clearly says kiting is welcome. Riders here have been looking for a place to ride legally for more than a decade.
Avon and Waves, OBX
Knee-deep water for hundreds of yards, wind most days of the year, and a whole island built around riding it. Avon and Waves are the heart of Hatteras Island's kite scene, on soundside beaches that belong to a national seashore.
Essaouira
The north-east trade wind blows into Essaouira's bay for most of the year, and Mogador Island keeps the water inside it small and friendly. Kite schools line the beach just outside the medina walls, sharing the sand with camels, horses and the town.
Fuerteventura
More than 9 km of open beach, a tidal lagoon and trade winds that hardly stop from April to September. Sotavento is one of Europe's best-known wind arenas, inside a natural park, where a single licence holder controls lessons in the lagoon.
Pozo Izquierdo
Pozo Izquierdo is where the world's best wave sailors grew up: trade winds funnelling down the coast, a lava-boulder beach and a world cup almost every summer since 1989. Kiters were pushed out of the bay and now launch further down the coast.
Costa Teguise
Flat water inside the breakwater, reef waves outside it, and the summer trade wind blowing across both. Las Cucharas is the home of windsurfing on Lanzarote, and a busy resort beach the whole year round.
Leucate
The Tramontane comes off the land and across the étang, the sea breeze comes in off the Mediterranean, and Leucate gets wind about 300 days a year. It is France's best-known wind town, and every beach has its own rules about who rides where.
Lake Garda
Two winds you can set a clock by: the Pelér down the lake in the morning, the Ora up it in the afternoon. Lake Garda is one of Europe's great wind lakes, split between three regions, and kiters ride it through clubs, boat lifts and tightly limited hours.
Punta Trettu
A nearly enclosed lagoon with flat, shallow water for hundreds of metres, and wind from the mistral in summer and the scirocco in autumn. Punta Trettu is one of the best places in the Mediterranean to learn, and riders may only use two marked zones.
Prasonisi
A ribbon of sand at the southern tip of Rhodes, with the Aegean on one side and the Mediterranean on the other. Flat water and waves sit a few hundred steps apart, and the meltemi fills both all summer.
Alaçatı
A shallow, U-shaped bay on the Çeşme peninsula where the summer meltemi blows side-shore over mirror-flat water. Alaçatı has hosted the windsurfing World Cup and now carries one of the busiest shorelines in the Aegean.
Hvide Sande
A fishing town on a thin strip of dunes between the North Sea and Ringkøbing Fjord. Riders get waves on one side and miles of shallow flat water on the other, a short walk apart.
Brouwersdam
A dam between two islands, with the North Sea on one side and Europe's largest saltwater lake on the other. Riders pick their side by the wind.
Langebaan
A long turquoise lagoon on South Africa's West Coast, where the summer southeaster blows across shallow, warm-for-the-Atlantic water. The lagoon is a national park, and kites share it with tens of thousands of birds.
Paje, Zanzibar
A white-sand village on Zanzibar's east coast, where a reef-sheltered lagoon drains and fills with the tide and the trade winds blow for most of the year. Kiters share the shallows with the women who farm seaweed there.
Kalpitiya
A sandy peninsula between a huge lagoon and the open sea, where the monsoon blows for half the year. The shallow lagoons of Kalpitiya have made it Sri Lanka's best-known kite spot.
Mui Ne
A fishing town turned wind town, where the northeast monsoon fills the bay with kites from November to March. Schools have taught here since 2000.
Safety Bay, Perth
A shallow bay on Perth's southern coast, where the afternoon sea breeze arrives almost every summer day. Schools teach on its waist-deep sandbar; experienced riders take the flat Pond behind it.
Pensacola
White sand, a long barrier island and a shallow bay behind it. Pensacola Beach rides best when the fronts come through, and riders here are still finding their voice.
Fort De Soto
Five keys at the mouth of Tampa Bay, with a launch for almost every wind. Fort De Soto is where Tampa Bay riders go when a winter front comes through, and where the rules are enforced.
Tybee Island
Georgia's beach town at the mouth of the Savannah River, where fall and winter fronts bring the wind. The island is losing sand, and riders share it with nesting sea turtles.
Isle of Palms
A barrier island just north of Charleston, with a long, open beach facing the Atlantic. Kiting works here because riders have kept to a simple set of distances from the crowds.
Virginia Beach
Where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic, Virginia Beach gives riders two coasts in one city. The bay beaches at First Landing are wide, sandy and free of power lines.
Dewey Beach
A small beach town on a sand strip between the Atlantic and Rehoboth Bay. The shallow bay behind it gives sailors and riders a sheltered alternative to the surf.
Middletown and Newport
Two beaches a mile apart on either side of Sachuest Point: Second Beach on the open ocean, where the town allows kiting, and Third Beach on the calm Sakonnet River, where it does not yet.
Muskegon
A long, open Lake Michigan beach beside the Muskegon pier, where westerly winds roll in off the big lake. Local riders are out from early spring, sometimes with ice still on the pier.
Sheboygan
Sheboygan calls itself the Malibu of the Midwest, and on a good day the same Lake Michigan wind that builds its surf fills the sky with kites.
Cleveland
Cleveland rides Lake Erie: a city beach minutes from downtown, and a long natural beach to the east where kiters launch when the west wind blows.
Jetty Island
Jetty Island is a two-mile island built from river sand off the Everett waterfront, and on hot summer afternoons its shallow west side turns into one of Puget Sound's best kite beaches.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is 22 miles of cold, clear alpine water at 6,225 feet, and when the wind finds it, kiters ride it in everything from summer heat to snowstorms.
Kailua
Kailua is where the trade winds meet the windward side of Oʻahu: warm, clear water, a long white beach, and a launch so tight that riders take turns.
Squamish
At the head of Howe Sound, summer wind pours up from the ocean into a glacier-fed river mouth, and Squamish riders have built a whole society around one rocky launch.
Nitinat Lake
Nitinat Lake is a long tidal inlet deep in the Vancouver Island forest, where a reliable summer thermal has drawn kiters and windsurfers from around the world to the end of a logging road.
Îles de la Madeleine
The Magdalen Islands are a chain of sand dunes and red cliffs in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, wrapped around shallow lagoons, with steady wind and a dozen kite spots.
Taíba
Taíba is a fishing village west of Fortaleza with a flat freshwater lagoon behind the dunes and real waves out front, and in 2025 the kite world tour came back to ride both.
Ilha do Guajiru
Ilha do Guajiru is a sand island at a river mouth on Ceará's west coast, with strong trade winds over flat water, and it is where the kite world tour now crowns its freestyle champions.
Punta Chame
Punta Chame is a long finger of sand on Panama's Pacific coast, with the ocean on one side and a tidal bay on the other, and from December to April the trade winds fill it with kites.
Paracas
Paracas is a desert bay on Peru's south coast where the wind blows most afternoons of the year, right beside one of South America's great marine reserves.
Sal
Sal is a flat, dry island in the Atlantic trade winds, where Santa Maria's Kite Beach teaches the world to ride and Ponta Preta hosts the best wave kiters on the planet.
Masirah
Masirah is a desert island off Oman's Arabian Sea coast, where the summer monsoon blows day and night over shallow lagoons, and where more loggerhead turtles nest than almost anywhere on earth.
Fehmarn
Fehmarn is Germany's Baltic wind island: whichever way the wind blows, one of its coasts is working, and its shallow bays have taught generations of German riders.
Across the network
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