Restaurants
- South Beach Bar & Grille
- Shades Oceanfront Bistro
- Ocean Beach Pier Cafe
Movies/TV
- Fearless (movie 2014)
Ocean Beach City Beach is the main beach in the San Diego neighborhood of Ocean Beach. This is a wide sandy beach that has formed at the south side of the San Diego River mouth. Looking north you can see the neighborhood of Mission Beach on the other side of the rock jetties that protect the Mission Bay Entrance Channel. The southern view from City Beach is dominated by the Ocean Beach Pier which extends about a half-mile out into the Pacific Ocean. If you are visiting here for the first time you should walk out to the end of the pier to take in the view of the city.
Below the pier and south of it you’ll find extensive tide pools that are exposed at low tide. The extreme north end of this beach is called Dog Beach and it’s overrun with happy pooches.
There are two parking lots and they tend to fill up fast on weekends, so you might have to settle for on-street parking near here. The Ocean Beach Bike Path runs inland along the river from here for bikers and runners.
To get to Ocean Beach, take the Ocean Beach Freeway (I-8) west to the end then follow Sunset Cliffs Boulevard to West Point Loma Blvd which ends at the beach.
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