Manchester State Park

Manchester State Park on Northern California’s Pacific coast preserves a broad shoreline of beach, dunes, bluffs, and grasslands north of Point Arena. Named for the nearby community and established in 1955, the park occupies a coast once within Pomo territory before European contact. Its long sandy beach, driftwood-strewn curve, Brush Creek and Alder Creek, and open grazing lands give it a distinctive pastoral and coastal character. Seasonal wildflowers color the landscape, while steelhead, salmon, kelp forests, and migrating humpback and gray whales reflect the area’s rich marine life. Proposed state park closures in the early 2010s ultimately did not affect it.

California · United States