Beaches in Los Angeles County
Marina Del Rey
While just minutes from the big city, this seaside community offers a carefree, family-friendly lifestyle
Palos Verdes Estates
High cliffs mark the rocky shoreline of this gem of a Southern California coastal community
Rancho Palos Verdes
An affluent LA suburb, with inspirational views and unusual marine life
Redondo Beach
Features sandy beaches popular with tourists and spectacular waves famous for surfing
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Terranea Resort
As one of Los Angeles’ premier oceanfront resorts, Terranea Resort offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean from it’s...
The Queen Mary Hotel
This historic 1936 ocean liner located in Long Beach California offers unique accommodations and a wide array of attractions including the...
Nearby Attractions
Catalina Express Ferry
The Catalina Express Ferry is your cheapest, fastest, and safest way to visit Santa Catalina Island. They operate high-speed...
The Getty Villa
The Getty Villa, is a facility that J. Paul Getty never lived in, but had built to house a...
The Getty Center Museum
The Getty Center, named for J. Paul Getty, sits high on a hill at the edge of the Santa...
Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal Studios Hollywood is one of the top theme parks in Southern California. When you buy Universal Studios Hollywood...
Pacific Park on Santa Monica Pier
Pacific Park is Santa Monica’s amusement park on the Santa Monica Pier. On a beautiful, sunny Southern California afternoon...
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
This small aquarium is run by Heal The Bay, an organization that promotes cleaning up our ocean and protecting...
About Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County is home to about ten million people and on sunny days it seems like most of them are at the beach. The city of Los Angeles is huge, but its waterfront is interrupted by several cities that it surrounds. Some of the beach cities that LA wraps around include Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Santa Monica. All of these cities have nice sandy beaches on Santa Monica Bay. Rancho Palos Verdes on the Palos Verdes Peninsula is also surrounded by LA. The PV Peninsula has a large number of unique beaches, including some that are little-known, that can be found along its irregular shoreline. South of LA is the huge city of Long Beach with a long sand beaches on the ocean and on Alamitos Bay. South of Long Beach are the beaches of Huntington, Laguna, and Newport Beach in Orange County. North of LA there are about thirty beaches along the Malibu coast. Among them are state park beaches that include Malibu Lagoon SB, Point Dume SB, Robert Meyer Memorial SB, and Leo Carrillo State Park. Beyond the Malibu coast is Ventura County with more remote beach options.
