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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 arch.
Purple Sand patterns on Pfeiffer Beach, CA. Purple beaches are a phenomenon caused by the presence of a large amounts of almandine-pyrope garnet. [1] [2] [3] or other purple minerals like manganese [4] or rose quartz that have accumulated in the local sediment.
Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is a state park in Monterey County, California, near the area of Big Sur on the state's Central Coast. It covers approximately 1,006 acres (4.07 km 2 ) of land. The park is centered on the Big Sur River .
Pfeiffer Beach | Big Sur, California Pfeiffer Beach is known for a remarkable, one-of-a-kind feature — purple sand. Beaches in Big Sur can be hard to find or access, due to the steep terrain ...
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.
The beach at Tourmaline Surfing Park in Pacific Beach, San Diego, California. This list of California beaches is a list of beaches that are situated along the coastline of the State of California, US.
It is sometimes confused with the beach at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park to the south. [50] In the south, Sand Dollar Beach is the longest stretch of beach in Big Sur. It is popular with hikers and photographers for its views of nearby bluffs. The beach is 25 miles (40 km) south of the Big Sur village on Highway 1.
When the California state park administration began to propose considerable development for the park, the Nature Conservancy threatened to revoke the sale arrangement, and the state backed down. [21] The remaining 2,654.7 acres (1,074.3 ha) of Frances Molera's half of the original Rancho El Sur east of Highway 1 was purchased by the state soon ...