📜 A mile of pristine beach for swimming, surf fishing, tidepool exploring, and camping.
🌊 Rich biological and cultural history with high-quality outdoor recreation.
🏊♀️ Enjoy swimming, surf fishing, tidepool exploring, scuba diving, and surfing.
🏕️ Camp with various options including RV sites with hookups.
🚶♀️ Hike trails and observe wildlife like seals, sea lions, and gray whales.
👨👩👧👦 Discover the Tomol Interpretive Play Area and educational programs for all ages.
📚 Learn about the Chumash tribe's canoe-building history.
🚫 Dogs are allowed in campgrounds and day-use areas but not on the beach.
⚠️ Maximum RV/Camper length is 35 feet.
🗓️ Weddings are not permitted during the busy summer months.
💰 Vehicle Day Use is $10.00. Special rates may apply for peak season and holidays.
☀️ Day Use is from Sunrise to Sunset.
🅿️ Parking is available.
🔌 EV Charger Locations are also available.
🚻 Restrooms and showers, including outdoor showers, are available.
🐕🦺 Ensure dogs remain in designated areas.
🗓️ Check ReserveCalifornia for reservation availability and maximum stay limits.
🐠 Wildlife Viewing: Spot seals, sea lions (Dec-May), occasional gray whales, and tidepool creatures like starfish, sea anemones, crabs, and octopi.
🏄♀️ Water Activities: Swimming, surf fishing, tidepool exploring, scuba diving/snorkeling, windsurfing/surfing.
🥾 Land Activities: Hiking trails, geocaching.
👨🏫 Educational Programs: Environmental Learning/Visitor Center, guided tours, school programs (K-5), virtual PORTS programs, and summer programs (Campfire, Junior Ranger).
🤸♀️ Tomol Interpretive Play Area: A unique playscape for children to learn about California's history.
🏕️ Overnight Facilities: En route, Family, Group, Hike or Bike Campsites, RV Sites with Hookups, RV Dump Station, RV Access.
🧺 Day-Use Facilities: Picnic Areas, Drinking Water, Wheelchair Accessible facilities.
🎫 California Explorer, Golden Poppy, Disabled Discount, Distinguished Veteran, Golden Bear, Senior Golden Bear, and California State Library Parks Pass.
🛶 Named 'Carpinteria' (carpentry shop) by the Spanish, as the local Chumash tribe built seagoing canoes here using natural tar. Gaspar de Portola observed this in 1769.
🎉 Three potential event venues: Linden Field, covered Ramada, and a campfire center.
🏄♂️ Manages parking and access to the internationally renowned surf spot, Rincon Point.
🍽️ The adjacent City of Carpinteria offers a wide range of restaurants, breweries, and entertainment.