McGrath State Beach
Los Angeles / SoCal
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 314
- Established
- 1948
parks detail
- Hook
- A Santa Clara River estuary preserve and campground, flood-prone and bird-rich
- More
- The Santa Clara River mouth is one of SoCal's premier birding estuaries — 200-plus species — though river flooding closes the campground with some regularity. When open, it's tent camping in the dunes with least terns and plovers nesting behind rope lines.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.226, -119.259