thelocalexplorer

Having grown up in Orange County where you had to either pay for beach parking or walk incredible distances, San Diego is a wonderful place to drive up to the sand, park your car and walk towards the water. 

Did you know there are over 70 miles of beaches in San Diego! Even if you don’t like to swim there are plenty of entertainment options for going to the beach. Whether you gaze at the sun setting or go surfing along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard on Point Loma, play with a few dogs at Dog Beach (wear shoes) or walk the longest wooden pier at Ocean Beach, dive for a volleyball or ride the roller coaster at Mission Beach, surf kayak, snorkel, or watch the sea lions in La Jolla, all the way up the coast there are great beaches with free parking. There’s also Coronado, where you’ll find low waves and long stretches of sand to enjoy, and Imperial Beach which is often less crowded. Finally, while you may not exactly jump in the water, there are wonderful places to sit and eat a lunch while you watch the ships pass on Shelter Island.  There’s also a great playground for kids, a section of beach with fire pits, and a small pier you can fish off of.

So grab a towel, some sunscreen, a book or your board and head to the water–there’s no better place to be than on the shores of San Diego during the summer, for as Herman Melville wrote in Moby Dick, “But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land […] as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.”

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