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This list of California beaches is a list of beaches that are situated along the coastline of the State of California, US. The information in this article draws extensively from the California Coastal Access Guide , a comprehensive resource that provides detailed information on over 1150 public access points along California's extensive 1271 ...
Beaches are important to the soul and the U.S. economy — so we're lucky to have so many with unique, stunning, and even downright weird characteristics. 55 Surprising Facts About America's ...
These beaches fall under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Parks and Recreation. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Beaches of California . It includes beaches that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Pacifica State Beach is the southernmost of Pacifica, California's large beaches. It is a 0.75-mile-long (1.21 km) crescent-shaped beach located at the mouth of the San Pedro Valley in downtown Pacifica off State Route 1, in San Mateo County. [1] Over one million people visit this beach annually. [2]
In its annual 'beach report card,' Heal the Bay graded hundreds of beaches in California and ranked the eight dirtiest beaches in the state.
Pfeiffer Beach is located in the Big Sur region of California. It is one of the most popular beaches on the Central Coast [ 1 ] and is well known for Keyhole Rock, a popular photography subject. On a limited number of days in December and January each year, photographers crowd the beach to obtain pictures of the setting sun visible through the ...
Heal the Bay's annual report card ranks the state's dirtiest — and cleanest — beaches based on water-quality analyses. Two from L.A. County made the 'beach bummer' list.
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.