North Beach is in front of the North Beach Campground at Pismo State Beach. Pismo Creek meets the ocean at this location and sometimes pools up next to the campground. Once on the beach if you walk north it’s not far to the Pismo Beach Pier. Heading south you can take the beach route or walk on a boardwalk that meanders through the dunes next to the Pismo Beach Golf Course all the way to the Grover Beach entrance. You can drive a car onto Pismo State Beach at Grand Avenue in Grover Beach or at Pier Avenue in Oceano.
There is no day-use parking lot at the North Beach state park entrance, but there are parking spaces along Highway 1 where a one-mile long Coastal Access Trail leads non-campers to the beach. Next to the North Beach Campground is a Monarch Butterfly Colony in a eucalyptus grove which can be viewed when they are present in late-October through February. Parking for grove access is clearly signed along the highway outside the campground.
The Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is a sight to behold. If you’ve never seen a butterfly grove and you happen to be on the San Luis Obispo Coast […]
The icon of Pismo Beach (once know for clams), is the wooden pier that is visible from many of the cliff-side hotels and resorts where guests can climb down sets […]
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California State Beaches can be found up and down the coast. They have some of the best beachfront property in the Golden State and thankfully it is protected from developers. […]
Every year from late October through February thousands of orange and black Monarch butterflies migrate south to this stunning grove in Pismo Beach, California. If you are staying along the […]
Pismo State Beach in San Luis Obispo County is famous for clams, butterflies, birds, camping, and driving your car on the beach. The famous Pismo clam can be dug up […]
