Pomponio State Beach
SF Bay Area
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 421
- Established
- 1960
parks detail
- Hook
- A long wild strand named for a fugitive Ohlone resistance leader
- More
- Named for Pomponio, an Ohlone man who led armed resistance against the missions in the 1820s and used these canyons as refuge. Long, uncrowded sand with a creek-mouth lagoon; strong currents keep it a walking beach, not a swimming one.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.298, -122.398