Short answer: The Den promenade is well kept, level and specifically good for mobility scooters, with a skate park and play area on it. The Back Beach car park is large and on flat ground. Ness Cove, through the Smugglers' Tunnel, is explicitly not buggy or wheelchair accessible.
Teignmouth's seafront promenade is the town's best accessible asset — reviewers describe it as very well kept with good access for mobility scooters, running level along the front past the play area, the skate park and the pier. The station is right on the beach, which makes Teignmouth one of the easier Devon seaside towns to reach without a car.
The main beach is orange-brown sand rather than pebbles, all sand with no stones, which is better underfoot than most of this coast. The railway runs along the back of it and watching an express come through a few feet from the promenade is genuinely part of the appeal. Seafront parking is expensive at around £4.60 for two hours.
Round on the estuary side, the Back Beach has a large car park on flat ground and the town centre within walking distance. It is sheltered when the seafront is being blasted, which matters here. Working boats pulled up on the sand, food shacks and old pubs a few steps away, and the Shaldon ferry running from it.
Worth being direct. The Smugglers' Tunnel down to Ness Cove is the most memorable thing to do in this area, and reviewers state plainly that it is not wheelchair or buggy accessible. There are two car parks and toilets at the top and a café by the car park, so the headland is still worth the trip — but do not plan on reaching the sand.
Shaldon Beach is small and flat with cafés and pubs immediately behind it, and the ferry across is level to board. It is a paddling and crabbing beach rather than a swimming one — the estuary currents are strong.
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