Point Arena, California Travel Information

Coastal Camping at Manchester State Park: Beginner's Luck Manchester State Park is great for first-time campers for two major reasons. It’s beautiful, first off; the beach is audible in the distance no matter where you camp, and the dunes make for great, eas... Manchester, CA

Manchester State Beach Campground How beautiful! And, how the wind does blow! No matter what time of year, this campground is ski-jacket country. And summer can be the worst. The winds blow so hard out of the north that you want to ti... Point Arena, CA

Point Arena Lighthouse The Point Arena Lighthouse and Museum are located on a magnificent peninsula with fantastic scenery. The experience of staying at the Point Arena Lighthouse is like vacationing at a nice family cottag... Point Arena, CA

Sonoma-Mendocino Coast Scenic Drive: Marin City to US 101 This 209-mile-long drive borders the Pacific coast north of San Francisco. The highway passes historic sites, redwood forests, abrupt headlands, sandy beaches, windswept coves, and numerous recreation... Gualala, CA

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Bluff Top Loop (Distance: 2.4 mi) Perennial Moat Creek and Ross Creek flow from the coastal hills into the ocean between Point Arena and Anchor Bay. Oceanfront bluffs separate the two sandy beach coves. Atop the 90-foot bluffs is a li...

Gualala, CA - Hiking - length:1.2 mi

Southern Bluff Loop (Distance: 2.6 mi) The Stornetta Public Lands stretch along two miles of awesome, weathered coastline surrounding the Point Arena Lighthouse. The bucolic land includes riparian corridors, extensive wetlands, ponds, cypr...

Gualala, CA - Hiking - length:1.6 mi

Manchester State Beach (Distance: 3.4 mi) Manchester State Beach is between Point Arena and the town of Manchester in Mendocino County. The large beach encompasses 1,400 acres with ponds, bluffs, grasscovered dunes, and five miles of dramatic...

Gualala, CA - Hiking - length:2.5 mi

Point Arena (Distance: 3.5 mi) This is a world-class surf spot south of Mendocino. Point Arena is home to two excellent breaks: a classic outside right on the north side of the pier, and a quality left point break just south of it....

Point Arena, CA - Surfing - length:unknown

Garcia River and the Northern Bluffs (Distance: 3.8 mi) The Stornetta Public Lands encompass 1,132 acres on the southern Mendocino County coast, north of the town of Point Arena. The land, with two miles of jagged coastline, lies adjacent to the Point Aren...

Gualala, CA - Hiking - length:2.5 mi

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Sea Ranch The Sea Ranch Golf Links Public, 18 holes 6600 yards, par 72 12.7 miles from center of Point Arena, California

Little River Inn Little River Inn Golf & Tennis Public, 9 holes 2775 yards, par 36 25.8 miles from center of Point Arena, California

Ukiah Ukiah Municipal Golf Course Municipal, 18 holes 5850 yards, par 70 30.4 miles from center of Point Arena, California

Brooktrails Brooktrails Golf Course Municipal, 9 holes 1279 yards, par 28 40.2 miles from center of Point Arena, California

Northwood Northwood Golf Club Public, 9 holes 2893 yards, par 36 48.1 miles from center of Point Arena, California

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