Schooner Gulch State Beach
North Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 54
- Established
- 1983
parks detail
- Hook
- Home of Bowling Ball Beach, where low tide reveals rows of spherical concretions
- More
- At low tide, Bowling Ball Beach's rows of spherical sandstone concretions emerge like a giant's game left mid-frame — check a tide table, it disappears at high water. The gulch allegedly earned its name from a schooner wrecked trying to load lumber here.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.869, -123.654