The gold sand-ard of beach festivals started last weekend, but now the pesky spring breakers are out of the way.

Seventeen pro sand sculptors have turned 24,000 square feet of Clearwater Beach into a sandy land before time for Pier 60 Sugar Sand Festival’s theme “Dinoshores—A Prehistoric Adventure in Sand.” Artists have paid homage to pop culture dinos with odes to The Flintstones, Jurassic Park and Jim Henson’s show Dinosaurs.

If that’s not trippy enough, the festival now has augmented reality and projection mapping to make the sandy ‘saurs stomp, roar and roam before your eyes.

The festival offers free sand sculpting classes, live music, fireworks, artisans and food vendors.

Tickets for Pier 60 Sugar Sand Festival, happening now through April 27 are still available starting at $14.

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Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
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Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
Credit: Photo by Jimmy Fashner courtesy of Visit St. Pete-Clearwater
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Selene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,...