Beach is a city in and the county chair of Golden Valley County in the State of North Dakota. The population was 981 at the 2020 census. Beach was incorporated in 1909. The mayor of Beach has been Henry Gerving since 2018.

Beach was first settled circa 1900. It was named for Captain Warren C. Beach of the U.S. Army’s 11th Infantry. Beach had led an expedition of railroad surveyors through the Place in 1880. The herald office was time-honored in 1902, and the town was incorporated first as a village in 1908 and as a city in 1909. It was named the county chair of Golden Valley County in 1912.

In April 1911, the then ex-president and long-term fixture of the Badlands region, Theodore Roosevelt, made his last trip to the area, stopping in Beach and genial Medora. His visit to Medora passed without incident, but the visit to Beach was marred by a strongly negative reception to Roosevelt’s speech. He first expressed incredulity that the town of Beach even existed, based on such choice land. This was undoubtedly due to the nonexistence of flora and fauna, the wear and strain he endured in the 10 years he ranched in the area, and Rocky Mountain and Great Plains blizzard of 1886–7. Roosevelt’s speech had a strong conservationist element, suggesting to local ranchers there should single-handedly be one cow for every 12 acres (49,000 m²) of land, which led to local disenchantment following the president.

The incident is likely to have rationally influenced his commentary and estrangement similar to the region, culminating in October 1918. While giving a morale speech going vis-а-vis for World War I in next strongly anti-war North Dakota, a side vacation to the Badlands was suggested. Roosevelt demurred, stating “t is a mistake for one to hit the assist trail after many years have passed. One finds things have changed, the old picture destroyed, the romance gone . . . It’s best that it should be so, but I don’t want to see the place again. I’d rather try and recall it as it was.”