Sonoma Coast State Park
North Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 10018
- Established
- 1934
parks detail
- Hook
- Seventeen miles of arches, coves, and Goat Rock at the Russian River's mouth
- More
- Goat Rock's beach is where the Russian River meets the sea amid a harbor-seal rookery — pupping season closures apply — but its sleeper waves are genuinely deadly and the park means its never-turn-your-back warnings. Bodega Head's trails double as gray-whale grandstands.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.383, -123.08