Carmel River State Beach
Central Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 297
- Established
- 1953
parks detail
- Hook
- A lagoon bird sanctuary and Monastery Beach's steep (and notorious) shorebreak
- More
- The lagoon hosts steelhead smolt and migrating waterfowl, and the beach's south end — Monastery — is the coast's most notorious shorebreak; admire it, don't wade it. Divers use the north end for kelp-forest entries when the swell allows.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 36.537, -121.928