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Signboard at entrance to beach, 2010 A view of Moonlight Beach from the second floor of the Moonlight Beach Motel, 2009 A 2007 view from Highway 101 of the creek within Cottonwood Creek at Moonlight Beach. The creek runs into Moonlight Beach on the north side. 2007. Moonlight State Beach is a state beach in Encinitas, California. It is located ...
Encinitas (Spanish for "Small Oaks") is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California, United States. Located in Southern California , it is approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of San Diego , [ 5 ] between Solana Beach and Carlsbad , and about 95 miles (153 km) south of Los Angeles .
It originates in the Cottonwood Creek Park in the town of Encinitas, then flows towards Moonlight Beach, where it discharges into the Pacific Ocean. Beginning in 1881 steam locomotives stopped to replenish their boilers with the water from Cottonwood Creek which produced the steam that moved the trains. [ 1 ]
S.S. Encinitas and S.S. Moonlight, designated by the National Register of Historic Places as the Encinitas Boathouses, are two houses made to look like a boat in Encinitas, California. Despite their appearance, they have never been to sea and are purely novelty architecture. The dwellings were added to the register on October 21, 2019.
The Pacific Ocean is to the west of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the rest of incorporated Encinitas is to the east and north, and a beach and lagoon to the south. With a population of under 12,000, Cardiff-by-the-Sea operates as part of the city of Encinitas, but unlike the other communities that comprise Encinitas, has its own ZIP Code (92007).
The Pannikin is one of Leucadia's most prominent businesses. In 2003, the Leucadia 101 Main Street Association was created to enhance the economic and civic vitality of Leucadia's Historic North Coast Highway 101 corridor. [7]
It is still in use as a movie theater today, most notably for screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show hosted by Crazed Imaginations. [1] [4] La Paloma is also a venue for live performances and artists such as Loreena McKennitt, Nickel Creek, Ralph Stanley, Jerry Garcia and Eddie Vedder have performed there.
There is also a small parking lot. At the edge of the park is a wooden staircase that leads down to the sand beach. [3] Swami's offers a sand beach available from 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. and has lifeguard towers open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the period of Late June to Labor Day (Early September). Beach parking is available from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m ...