![]() ![]() It’s a treat that I tried once and it felt like I was climbing Mount Everest. This pedestrian bridge is a real test of endurance, especially if you have kids, chairs, or surf toys in tow. The other is a multi level walkway that takes you high over the tracks and brings you back down to the day parking area of the state park. One is at the said parking lot where you just step over the tracks and you are on the sand. You can only get across it in a few select areas. Two, there is a railroad track that divides the road to the beach. So it doesn’t have massive parking lots like you will see in cities such as Huntington Beach. In fact, part of Dohenys day parking borders Capo and Dana Point.Īlong the stretch at Capo, there is one small pay lot that can be used for accessing the beach and a few parking spaces along the road itself. One, Capo Beach isn’t a large area and actually skirts the very edge of Dana Point and Doheny State Park. So why is it so un-crowded in Capo Beach? In certain places it runs right along the coast where you are so close, you can almost touch the sand and water with your finger tips. PCH or Highway 1 winds and curves all along the coastline from Southern California to Northern. On any given Southern California day in summer it is packed with cars filled with beachgoers. This is the small stretch of the coast called Capistrano Beach, otherwise known as Capo Beach.Īs mentioned, PCH is THE road in coastal California. So where is this mysterious un-crowded spot on PCH? However, here, you felt like it was old California, back in a day when Woodies cruised the roads stacked high with surfboards and the beaches weren’t packed as they are today. ![]() It almost looked like the more crowded Malibu up north…almost. The beach front homes start after the parking lot Looking west now, I was admiring the rows of multi-million dollar seaside homes lucky enough to have the sand and sea as their front yards. Still scratching my head in wonderment, a group of palm trees caught my eye as their fronds were swaying from the gentle ocean breeze. How could this little stretch of road, only about a block from the ocean be so deserted on this warm afternoon? I am the only car heading south and once in a while one passes by traveling north. In the meantime, I suddenly noticed that there were no other vehicles on the road. Will the dark gloom hold off so we can see one of California’s glorious color-splashed sunsets? Only time will tell, as there were still two hours remaining of daylight. Way out to sea there is a subtle outline of a gray marine layer making its way inland. The ocean to my right is a vibrant sparkly blue and is producing waves no more than two feet high. The air conditioner is blasting as I am driving along the iconic Pacific Coast Highway on a super hot summer day in California.
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