Carpinteria State Beach
Central Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 62
- Established
- 1932
parks detail
- Hook
- 'The world's safest beach' — a gentle-shelf swimming strand with tar seeps and a seal rookery next door
- More
- The gentle shelf that earned 'world's safest beach' billing pairs with natural asphalt seeps at Tar Pits Park — the Chumash caulked tomols with it for ocean crossings. December–May, the harbor seal rookery overlook at the bluffs adds pups to the itinerary.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.391, -119.518