Leo Carrillo
Malibu (northern) · near Malibu / Ventura County line · Los Angeles / SoCal
Surfing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Best season
- Fall and winter for the reef · Summer mellower
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Surfing detail
- Break types
- reef · beach
- Swell
- NW and W · 2–7ft · A reef along the right ends on a sandbar
- Tide
- Mid tide best
- Wind
- Morning offshore best
- Crowd
- Family-friendly with a state park and campground. A concentrated take-off zone around a big rock keeps it intimate.
- Board
- Shortboard, fish, or longboard
- Wetsuit
- 3/2mm most of the year · 4/3mm mid-winter · Water 58–66°F
- Intl tip
- Leo Carrillo State Park has one of the better campgrounds on the LA coast — book ahead. The tide pools and sea caves are excellent at low tide. County Line (a well-known break) is just north at the Ventura County border.
The guide
Leo Carrillo, at the far northern end of Malibu, pairs surfing with one of the best state-park-and-campground setups in LA Coun…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Leo Carrillo — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.045, -118.937