Cayucos Pier
Cayucos (San Luis Obispo County) · near Cayucos / Morro Bay · Central Coast
Surfing
At a glance
- Skill level
- beginner
- Best season
- Summer for small, mellow rollers · Year-round waves
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Surfing detail
- Break types
- beach
- Swell
- NW and W · 1–5ft · Small rolling mushy waves near the pier
- Tide
- Works across tides
- Wind
- Morning glass
- Crowd
- Sleepy, uncrowded, beginner-tolerant. A relaxed old beach town.
- Board
- Longboard or soft-top
- Wetsuit
- 4/3mm most of the year · Water 54–62°F
- Intl tip
- Cayucos sits between Morro Bay (that iconic volcanic rock, kayaking in the kayak guide) and Cambria/Hearst Castle to the north. Its old-fashioned main street, saltwater taffy, and Brown Butter Cookie Company make it a delightful road-trip stop.
The guide
Cayucos is a sleepy, unspoiled old beach town just north of Morro Bay, and its pier break serves up small, rolling, mushy waves…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Cayucos Pier — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 35.4419, -120.901