by CoastView | Dec 7, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Slates Hot Springs is a community on the Big Sur coast at an elevation of 118 feet (36 m), 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Monterey, and 46 miles (74 km) northwest of San Simeon, California. In 1882, Thomas B. Slate filed a land patent for the site and developed the hot...
by CoastView | Nov 30, 2022 | 2022, California, Communities, Rivers
Big River flows for 42 miles (68 km) through the northern California Coast Range starting at an elevation of approximately 2,800 feet (865 m), draining a watershed of 181 square miles (46,880 ha) and entering the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino, California. From the river...
by CoastView | Nov 23, 2022 | 2022, California, Embayments, Parks
Abbotts Lagoon is a two-stage lagoon on the northwestern coast of the Point Reyes National Seashore, 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Tomales Point, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Inverness, California. The upper lagoon is a freshwater impoundment that...
by CoastView | Nov 16, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Rivers
Arroyo de Los Frijoles Beach and Pebble Beach are in Bean Hollow State Park, located 17.5 miles (28.2 km) south of Half Moon Bay and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Pescadero, California. The name Bean Hollow is from the translation of Cañada Del Frijol which was applied in...
by CoastView | Nov 9, 2022 | 2022, California, Headlands, Parks
Pomo Bluffs is a park on the ocean bluffs at Todd’s Point overlooking Noyo Bay about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Fort Bragg in the community of Noyo, California. The park consists of 25 acres (10 ha) of property acquired with grants from the California Coastal...
by CoastView | Nov 3, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Kibesillah is the site of a historical lumber-loading chute and for a short time was one of the most important communities on the north coast, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Fort Bragg and 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of Westport, California. Marine terraces dominate the...
