| 21 56th Street Kenosha, WI 53140-4222 | |
| 42° 35' 1.49'', -87° 48' 42.03'' | |
| +12626575565 | |
| VHF Ch. 16 | |
| spmarina.net | |
| Racine Harbor |
Fuel
Diesel $3.29
Gas Regular $3.99
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About
Southport Marina has distinguished itself as an alternative to larger, more impersonal and institutional facilities. Southport is a public facility with the feel of a private marina, large enough to provide boaters with everything they need, yet small enough that you can walk into the office and speak with one of the owners.
Southport Marina is conveniently located in the center of Kenosha's new Harbor Park Development. The marina is within walking distance to several fine restaurants that offer a variety of dining experiences. Additionally, there is a full range of services located in the downtown area all within walking distance to the marina.
As a full-service marina, we offer everything you may need for your life on the water.
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Reviews
Great staff and facility! From Cameron (A+ service!) greeting us at the gas dock and providing us with our access fobs and marina maps (in addition to doing gas and pump-out duties), to the updated shower facilities (awesome) and boater's lounge to the well maintained pool and grounds - everything was first rate. Located close to bars, restaurants, and bike/walking paths. Will definitely be returning for a longer stay to explore more!
Nice quiet harbor and very easy to walk downtown! Staff was great and check in was very easy
Great facility, enjoyed our short stay, will be back!
We loved our stay. Super-helpful staff and great location close to town. Nice, clean facilities.
Exceptionally nice marina. One of the best I’ve ever seen. Wells are very wide, at least 50’ on H Dock. Full service yard with pullout and storage Amenities all extensive and clean. Kenosha is a wonderful town to explore. We did it by bicycle. As of the writing very thin (5’) near the entrance to I and H docks, east of the fuel dock. They are actively dredging now, so this should be resolved shortly. Pay attention to red buoys after you clear the breakwater entrance.
Nice Marina. Clean and well equipped in a nice town. A little shallow coming in so need to be a little careful.
Great clean bathrooms and pool. would definitely stay again!
Since the Kenosha harbor market is only on Saturday's you should offer a reduced fee like $30 for 6 hours of docking and advertise it at Waukegan and Northpoint. You would get a substantial number of visitors from both for the day increasing revenue and goodwill.
Tom, The man at the fuel Dock was the most attentive, helpful and just nice guy! He was the first person we met when entering Southport. Thank you Tom! Karma
Loved the marina, pool and our dock neighbors. Great restaurants and farmers market on Saturdays. We'll be back.
Excellent, the guy at the gas dock was awesome!!! Office personnel as well.
Very nice marina. Bathrooms and showers are clean and modern. Water pressure will blast you right out of the shower. Harbor is tight for the novice sailor, staff is friendly.
One of our favorite marinas on Lake Michigan. Great setting. The bathrooms have been beautifully remodeled. The gas dock is super convenient.
Excellent welcome at gas dock by a young woman who expertly fueled us up and emptied the waste tank. Wonderful shower/bath building with an upstairs balcony. Fitness room and pool. Great restaurants/bars in walking distance. Maybe our best harbor experience ever.
It would be nice if the Marina would run a little convenience store. There is no super market in walkable distance. Just a thought. Also the laundry room should have a vending maschine for coins and laundry detergent . Thanks, Susanne
Facility was pretty nice but spread out. Tons of seasonals with their random "yard" items piled on the docks (grills, chairs, planter boxes, and etc) price was reasonable. Staff was not very helpful and seemed almost annoyed when I asked for help finding my slip.
Super friendly and efficient. Lost cell phone returned. Excellent WiFi.
Fantastic super clean, friendly people. Loved our stay
It was a very clean, very welcoming experience. I have been telling all my friends who have boats the hands down best experience we had. The staff were very welcoming and great to work with.
We enjoy all there was to do in town. Marina staff was excellent, the accommodations were excellent.
Had a great time. The marina is in great condition. Nice people on our dock. Especially like how close the marina is to town. Lot's to do.
A very nice place to stay. Very friendly staff and dock people.
Clean facilities, great fuel dock staff and good places to walk to.
We always enjoy our stay in Kenosha and especially at Southport Marina. Always friendly and helpful!
Great facility and very accommodating staff. We come here almost every year. One of our favorite marinas in Wisconsin.
Our marina has everything you need for a perfect season. Being Downtown Kenosha makes it even better. Access to all services as well as bars and restaurants. There is an Anytime Fitness health club nearby which makes it even better.
The marina has a lacked garbage cans however it was clean. The town of Kenosha was a fun place to visit. Fun streetcar, Civil War and natural history museum within walking distance to the marina. There is a diner called Frank's about two blocks away from the 1920's that is a must see with fantastic food
Excellent weather protection. Very nice facilities, helpful staff, close to town and restaurants.
Great Marina, nice people on the dock and a great town.
Great Marina great staff, wonderful places to visit within short walking distance. Been there five times!
Was a nice stop. Easy to get to the slip. Parked along the Park. Felt like we were in a fish bowl.
On our approach to the marina we called (phone) for our reserved slip assignment, and immediately put on hold for about 10minutes. We had to hang up in order to take sails down and prepare the boat for entrance. We hailed the marina on vhf…no reply…. We then called again (phone) and received our assignment. The fuel dock attendant DID deliver our key to the slip, which was great. Thanks. The dock was a minefield of bird crap, and the south bathhouse looked as if it were abandoned by all life except spider’s. The power stations were a cross between the pier and bath house condition. We don’t travel with a water hose, and dock hands did respond to my request for the pier to be washed so we didn’t track crap onto the boat. So that was good. Kenosha itself is a great place to visit, and the market is always has something to offer. So, we’ll return.
Wonderful People. Bad information on marina soundings.
Wonderful experience. People were helpful and nice.
The Marina is always clean and inviting. We enjoy the farmer’s market and the easy walk to restaurants, events and sights.
Great Marina and great facilities and helpful staff. This was our second trip to Southport and will definitely come back next year. We draw 7 feet, watch for the sandbar as you turn left from the harbor entrance towards the fuel dock....stay close to the rocks on your port!
Outstanding amenities, friendly & helpful team, clean well-kept pool and clubhouses and numerous great restaurants w/in walking distance. Fantastic marina. The attentive and professional employees, combined w/the well equipped workout room overlooking harbor, & multiple laundry and shower areas, & the Tap House pub very nearby (https://kenosha-taphouse.com) and Kaisers pizza (https://kaisersofkenosha.com) just a 5min walk, make this our favorite marina on Lake Michigan. We have been here for 7yrs
Very nice Marina, clean, good people and nice boats. We had a small issue with the 50 Amp breaker blowing if we used more than 30 amps, but we manged the power after learning it would trip . Would visit again. Several nice restauranta within walking distance of Marina.
The facilities were very clean and up to date. The staff we interacted with were very friendly, accommodating, and quick to respond to all needs. Would definitely stay again.
Beautiful marina, easy access. A little glitch with getting the fobs for access but they fixed it very quickly. Bathrooms clean, slips nice with deck boxes for use. Would recommend. Also loved their cancellation policy as we had to cross the lake a day late because of weather. No charge for cancelling that one night.
Nice location with several restaurants within walking distance. Clean bathrooms. Nice marina
Beautiful marina! Help docking was a problem!! Was told to go to the fuel dock, an employee was painting the window trim on the gas dock building. After I yelled to him as the wind was blowing me around he said he was busy and someone will be there shortly. Another employee did come right a way. People on the dock help grab lines. On another note we went to use the marinas grills an one tank was empty and the second grill was being used and that tank was near empty. Southport should keep a spare tank by the grills.
Friendly staff & dog friendly Clean & safe feeling Marina Irish pub in walking distance.
Absolutely beautiful marina! Love the pool and hot tub! Love the town hot spots within walking distance. We had a great weekend! We will be returning!
Such a wonderful port, so quiet and clean, and my husband only got stopped 4 times for sailboat/ client advice :) No one could believe he was actually here on holiday! Wendy Olsen Ferdinand Nimphius
Great Marina very clean and comfortable. Amenities are good. Restaurants and shops within walking distance. We would definitely come back.
We arrived at Southport Marina, Kenosha, WI, Friday Oct 8 after 5 PM and headed for the fuel dock, not knowing if our Dockwa reservation (shortly before 4 PM office close) would be waiting for us. There came Tom, who had waited for us to help tie up and gave us instructions to our slip (even though it was after hours for him) - thanks Tom! We then headed to slip C165 but found it occupied (not good with the office closed and Tom long gone home)! But all turned out well as after turning around to recheck for the correct dock, we returned and took the next open slip about ten slips down, hoping that no else was out that late. Saturday morning, we enjoyed visiting the Farmers Market, and especially the Civil War museum and visited with several sailors back at the slip, then it was time to return to Racine. All in all, we would visit Southport using Dockwa again!
The slip we were assigned did not seem to be long enough for our boat
Friendly people, fairly easy sail from Chicago, easy to find our way into the harbor and tie up to our slip. Our slip was in a perfect location near the bath house and pool and walking path. We enjoyed our stay in Kenosha and even stayed an extra night!
`Nice facilities with very pleasant patrons. Many stores and restaurants nearby, within 2-3 blocks.
Nice marina. Good clean facilities. friendly staff, good food nearby. Even a trolley.
Very friendly helpful staff assisted us with an after hours check in. Marina facilities were very clean and well maintained. Would definitely recommend or book a transient slip in the future.
We absolutely love this Marina. Very clean and plenty to do!
Fantastic. The facility was updated and clean. people were friendly. And an Irish Pub - only a 3 minute walk from our dock!
We always enjoy our annual visit to Southport Marina. The staff take good care of transients and it's a nice town to visit.
The harbor was excellent. We had four boats in our group and were given piers close to each other. The bathrooms were clean and warm. Everyone in our group enjoyed our stay and the other boaters around us were very welcoming. We will be back!
Ditto my last stay comments: Excellent marina with very clean facilities, a wonderful customer service oriented staff in a great town to visit.
Marina was clean and had the right amenities. Check in was easy once we stopped at the gas dock to pick up our welcome pack. Check out was even easier with drop boxes at various locations. Some of the residents helped us dock and were very helpful and welcoming. The local town was walking distance and had a variety of bars and restaurants.
The facilities are great and up to date. However, the pier we were assigned was covered in goose droppings. We had to wash down the pier ourselves for 20 minutes before we could walk on it. Luckily another boat nearby had a hose on his dock
Awesome marina. Prompt response to my questions. Access cards were at the fuel dock as we arrived after the office closed (430 pm on a Friday?, to.early in my opinion). Restrooms were clean and docks were wide and debris free. Easy walk to restaurants and fantastic farmers market on Saturday morning. Friendly people on the docks. We were in a group of three boats. Nice, safe, marina, we will be back. Thank you.
1. Windy day - we were asked to stop at the fuel dock to pick up key. This is an extra stop for a large boat in wind with other boats in line at the fuel dock. We declined and were finally allowed to check in at the office (as we do at other marinas). Very poor service to ask a large boat to tie up twice, especially in wind. 2. Our slip had no number on it (fell off?). Additionally, very difficult to read any of the numbers - faint print. 3. Office staff unfriendly and gruff. 4. Our pier was literally covered with bird poop! We could not get to/from our boat without stepping in some. Disgusting! 5. Summary - dirty, unfriendly marina. Would not recommend to others.
Friendly staff! Like that cable TV is included for transients.
Excellent marina! Steps to downtown Kenosha, which is a gem of a town. All the facilities were clean and in good shape. The marina graciously accommodated our after hours arrival and there was a drop off box for the keys that saved us a long walk to the main office. We had some much fun here that we're already planning our trip back next year.
Super friendly staff, easy access to local restaurants and the Saturday morning farmer's market is amazing!
The marina was spotless. The dock hand at the fuel dock didn’t know what he was doing.
Nice place, wide floating docks, and close to town. The only issue we had is that we had a (10) hour journey to get to Southport Marina and arrived at 4:35pm. We did not realize that they closed at 4:30 and was not notified regarding this issue! So after 4:30PM they will not response to your VHF radio. We were lucky that the fuel dock attendant was still present to give us an access key to the docks and restrooms and found us an open slip. We had to ask another boat owner for the WiFi passcode.
Was here with the Chicago Yacht Club power fleet for the weekend. Kenosha and the harbor rolled out the red carpet for us. It was a wonderful time. Can't wait to go back. Thanks to everyone.
Marina staff friendly and helpful. The Marina itself is well designed- very pretty and boater friendly. Facilities are spotless.
Beautiful setting, nice marina amenities, great restaurants within walking distance - what more cold a boater ask for when traveling on Lake Michigan?
Very nice marina with swimming pool. Easy docking in a well protected basin and dock hands to screw you up. Nice town with plenty of eats and a quaint, real trolley on a loop to eveeything.
Very nice marina, friendly people and reasonably good location. Town does not have ad much to offer, especially in walking distance as some other harbor towns. Marina facilities are great.
Southport Marina in Kenoshe blows the Chicago Harbor System out of the water! Fantastic.