Beautiful state park! We especially enjoyed camping there! The beach is not crowded and pretty clean. As we were there for a couple nights we helped picking up garbage on the beach to keep our ocean clean. Please clean-up after yourselves when visiting any beaches or parks! Pack-it in, pack-it out! 🙏🌎💚

I did tent camping @ spot #2 near the entrance. Was my 1st time here but its now one of my favorite in CA. The spots are large & fit a trailer or 2 vehicles. Some spots are next to each other. Put your food away in the lockers @ night. Some raccoons went through my things.

A perfect beach to watch the sunset 🌅 $10 of admission/parking fee. There are two parking lots with about a mile of distance from each other. There are many cute birds on the beach. We’ll come back.

Really clean and open beach with a lot of room to spread out. Not as crowded as a lot of other beaches and the perfect place to bring your dog to play in the water and sand. Parking was easy enough to find without much hassle. Some dogs are off leash but all the ones I saw were well behaved.

Lots of camping spots. Close to beach. Hot showers for .75 cents. Big laundry sinks free to use for washing laundry..

I liked the beach very much because it was less crowded. Beach is very big however very less crowded when I visited today (on Saturday). Also weather was warm. Parking is 10$ for a day pass. Important tip- There is very weak T mobile network, I had lot of difficulty to access maps while coming back. There are also lots of campgrounds available for overnight stay. There is no restaurant or store to get food. It's better to bring food. Definitely must go this beach at least once 👍

Beautiful State beach with lots of camping. There are a couple of parking areas for day use, a small one in the north by the entrance station, and a slightly larger one just over a mile south. It definitely feels more remote than many of the other beaches nearby and you can always find an uncrowded stretch if you’re prepared to walk a little.

beautiful place to camp or spend the day, it costs $10 to spend the day and $35 to camp one night. I loved that it is kids and dogs friendly, the camping areas are away from the beach so they have their own space, everything is perfectly well arranged, there are bathrooms with showers, there is a campfire area and picnic areas, access to the beach It is through some dunes which makes it very interesting, the beach is quite clean. The guard at the entrance is very friendly and explains everything you want to know perfectly, such as costs, reservations, waiting lists and places of access. A nice place to repeat and stay

Clean and well-maintained, I am looking forward to spending a night here instead of only a day. They offer camping! Campfire at the beach - who thought that hygee could be outdoors as well?! It’s quite sparse with other beach goers on a weekday but could be a different story on the weekends. Enjoy the pics!

I loved our experience at this campground. The camp site that we were in was secluded and surrounded by bushes and trees. Our neighbors were not as close as other campsites. If you go here, request campsite #15. And go during the week. However, I stayed there on a Sunday night, and it was nice and quiet. The ocean is within walking distance. We saw a whale and seals pop up out of the water as we sat on the beach. It was quite entertaining to see pelicans diving straight down from the sky to catch fish. There are fish close to the shore. Bold seagulls

This is a spectacular location for beach camping. Three campground areas high up on the dune with the beach stretching off to infinity in both directions below the dune. All the campsites are more or less walking distance from the beach, but the furthest ones would be quite a long walk so it’s probably better to drive down to the beach for convenience. We go here every year with my kid’s school dad‘s club annual camping trip. As it is beach camping, the experience depends a lot on weather — if the weather cooperates, it can be spectacular, otherwise, if foggy or drizzly conditions, then camping on the dune gets messy and sand stuck all over the kids and the gear, and besides that not much to do if the weather doesn’t cooperate. It’s also quite a long drive from San Francisco — if you hit traffic, it can take 3 hours on Friday afternoon, going over the Santa Cruz mountains is particularly a bottleneck.

Beautiful beach surrounded by strawberry fields and quiet campground with restrooms and showers. The only drawback is that you have to reserve a spot about 6 months in advance.

A little dirty with trash. Was nervous to walk through sand at 1st. But it's still a beautiful beach. Walking up the hill to get in is hard but it's worth it

Beautiful state campground with hike and bike through for $5. Clean bathrooms, and great fire pits. The campground is close to a bluff overlooking the ocean. You can hear the waves from the campground. Great beach to explore at the bottom! (They do have a two-night policy now for bike and hike through.)

Camped here with family for a few days. The first 2 days were like living on the top of a whale's blowhole, if that whale exhaled constantly for 2 days. The wind just wouldn't stop. We went to the beach anyway, and once the surface layer of our skin was sandblasted off, we acclimated and enjoyed our time there. We were in the 1st loop, which is a mixture of tents and RVs (I think maybe all of the loops are). That loop was very quiet and peaceful, even when more people showed up. It's not the best location if you're looking for a lot of tree coverage, but it is beautiful. There are bathrooms with showers, which were fine. Fire pits and tables at the sites. Firewood for sale for $15/bundle.

Beautiful beach without the crowds, even in a holiday weekend. Windy, cloudy, and slightly chilly - typical of a norcal beach. A lot of sea shells and sand dollars all over the place.

First time there beautiful place will go back again.some of the picnic table are in bad shape.lots of gopher holes I mean a lot.but other then that a beautiful place

Nice little beach, with free parking options.

Spectacular white sand beach with picnic and restroom facilities. $10 per car entrance fee for day use. Also camping areas on bluff above beach. Weather can be very different than nearby inland areas due to marine influence with fog in morning on summer days. Escape the 100-degree days inland. Bring a sweater! It may be 55 degrees and windy. Check web for beach weather forecast.

Come here every year for a family gathering, and it's excellent every single year. Lovely views, good campsites (if you know which ones to pick), and decent utilities. Camp host has always been friendly. Only complaint is the slow progress to repairs at sites, but with a state funded park, it's expected. Plus I found whale bones on the beach this year, which was practically a religious experience

Got a reservation using six month in advance system (and starting it on Thursday). Nice couple of nights for a solo trip. Fishing and sitting around the fire watching Great Horned Owls and hawks, enjoying the native plants blooming on the dunes. Great way to get back to nature!

Nice by the beach with nice sunsets. Able to have fire by the beach and at campsites. There is mosquitoes but that’s common in outdoor activities. We got visit from raccoons a couple of times though but other than that we were perfectly fine

Nice, big sandy beach. Plenty of room to post up or just walk around. That said, I noticed most like to post up and cluster near the main walkway here. Dunno why considering how vast this beach is.... I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact the closest restrooms are up that same path up the hill. 🤷‍♂️