Cardiff State Beach
San Diego
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 507
- Established
- 1949
parks detail
- Hook
- The Cardiff Kook, gentle rollers, and the San Elijo Lagoon mouth
- More
- The Cardiff Kook statue gets costumed by pranksters so reliably it has its own fan pages; the reef out front is genuinely one of the county's most forgiving longboard waves. The lagoon mouth's sandbar makes a shallow kids' zone at lower tides.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.014, -117.279