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Point Arena, Mendocino Coast
Point Arena is a narrow headland about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long with a historical lighthouse that marks a significant change in the orientation of the Mendocino Coast, about 34 miles (55 km) south of Fort Bragg and 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the community of Point Arena, California.
Point Cabrillo, Mendocino Coast
Point Cabrillo is a sandstone headland marked with a lighthouse on the Mendocino Coast between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino, about 6.7 miles (11 km) south of Fort Bragg and 1.3 miles (2 km) southwest of Caspar, California.
Trinidad Head, Trinidad Bay
Trinidad Head is a prominent headland joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus adjacent to the town of Trinidad and protecting Trinidad Bay, about 48 miles (77 km) south of Crescent City and 18 miles (29 km) north of Eureka, California.
Bodega Head, Bodega Bay
Bodega Head is a granitic promontory at the north end of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Rosa, California.
Malibu Lagoon, Santa Monica Bay
Malibu Lagoon is an estuary formed by a spit on the north shore of Santa Monica Bay that partially encloses the mouth of Malibu Creek, about 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Los Angeles and in the community of Malibu, California.
Cowell Ranch Beach, Half Moon Bay
Cowell Ranch Beach is at the southern end of Half Moon Bay near the ghost town of Purissima, and the northern boundary of the historical Cowell Ranch, about 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay, California.
Kirby Cove, Marin Headlands
Kirby Cove is an embayment in the Marin Headlands on the northern shore of the Golden Gate in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the site of a historic military installation, about 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of downtown San Francisco and 2.3 miles (4 km) south of Sausalito, California.
Stinson Beach, Bolinas Bay
Stinson Beach is a community on Bolinas Bay developed on a crescent-shaped sand spit partially enclosing Bolinas Lagoon between Duxbury Point to the northwest and Rocky Point to the south, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of San Francisco and 14 miles (23 km) south-southeast of Point Reyes Station, California.
Mad River, McKinleyville
Mad River starts in the Coast Range at an elevation of 4,845 ft (1,477 m) and flows generally northwest for 113 miles (182 km), draining a watershed of 318,080 acres (128,722 ha), and enters the Pacific Ocean about 12 miles (19 km) north of Eureka and 1.8 miles (3 km) northwest of McKinleyville, California.
Devil’s Punchbowl, Russian Gulch State Park
Devil’s Punchbowl is a sinkhole formed by a collapsed sea cave over 70 feet (21 m) deep and 100 feet (30 m) in diameter near the mouth of Russian Gulch Creek in Russian Gulch State Park, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Fort Bragg and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north-northwest of Mendocino, California.
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