by CoastView | Jan 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, California, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks
Fort Cronkhite is situated on the Marin Headlands and is a historic U.S. Army facility that supported Battery Townsley, part of the coastal artillery defenses of San Francisco Bay during World War II, and now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 8...
by CoastView | Jan 8, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tomales Point is a headland forming the northern tip of Point Reyes Peninsula within the Point Reyes National Seashore, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11 km) south-southeast of Bodega Bay, California. Tomales Point and the Point Reyes...
by CoastView | Jan 2, 2025 | 2025, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, January 2025, Land Use, Lighthouses
Point Arguello is a prominent headland and the site of Vandenberg Space Launch Complex, as well as a historical cattle ranch, lighthouse station, and a Loran station, about 55 miles (89 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Lompoc,...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
Point Piedras Blancas is a prominent headland and the site of a historic light station within the California Coastal National Monument, and surrounded by the Hearst San Simeon State Park, about 73 miles (117 km) south-southeast of Monterey and 6 miles (10 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 19, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2024, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use
Cannery Row is the Monterey waterfront between San Carlos Beach and Cabrillo Beach, or between the Monterey Harbor Marina and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where several historical Pacific sardine canneries once operated, about 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Santa...
by CoastView | Dec 13, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, December 2024, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
La Honda Canyon is a valley formed by CaƱada Honda Creek that enters the Pacific Ocean 0.4 miles (0.6 km) near Woodbury Rocks north of Point Pedernales, about 56 miles (90 km) west-northwest of Santa Barbara and 11 miles (18 km) west-southwest of Lompoc, California....