Emma Wood State Beach

Los Angeles / SoCal

parks

At a glance

Size
112
Established
1957

parks detail

Hook
Cobble surf breaks and rail-side camps at the Ventura River mouth
More
Cobblestones, rail-side group camps, and a break that works when everything else blows out — it's a surfer's utility beach with Ventura River estuary birding at the east end. The WWII coastal-defense ruins crumble photogenically mid-beach.

Getting there

Coordinates
34.29, -119.323

Driving directions

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