Sand Dollar Beach
Sand Dollar Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Junipero Serra Peak stands 1,784 m to the north, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Sand Dollar Picnic Area and Beach, a picnic site 0.2 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 runs past it. 116 named places lie within 25 miles, 53 of them named summits.
The story
Sand Dollar Beach is a .5 miles (0.80 km) long beach in Big Sur, California, one of the longest publicly accessible beaches on that coast. It is within the Los Padres National Forest. The beach is 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of the small commercial center of Gorda and 38.5 miles (62.0 km) north of Cambria. It is 25 miles (40 km) south of Big Sur Village on Highway 1.
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Wikidata Q49324590, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- On the Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1, National
- 11.3 mi off the San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway - Route 1, National
Overlooks nearby
- Breaker Point · 13 mi
- Point Sierra Nevada · 13 mi
- Bench · 20 mi
- Julia Pfieffer Burns Vista Point · 21 mi
116 named places within 25 miles
- Willow Peak: 4.1 mi
- San Martin Top: 4.9 mi
- Chalk Peak: 5.1 mi
- Slick Rock Peak: 6.2 mi
- Alder Peak: 6.2 mi
- Silver Peak Wilderness: 9.1 mi
- Landels-Hill Big Creek Nature Reserve: 12.4 mi
- Big Creek State Marine Reserve: 14.4 mi
- Bear Canyon Wilderness Study Area: 15.3 mi
- John Little State Natural Reserve: 16.3 mi
- Bane Spring: 5.9 mi
- Basket Spring: 6.1 mi
- Redwood Spring: 6.2 mi
- Buckeye Spring: 7.8 mi
- Dutra Spring: 11.1 mi
- Middle Fork Falls: 6.8 mi
- Jewel Falls: 7.0 mi
- Manning Falls: 9.3 mi
- Upper Salmon Creek Falls: 9.6 mi
- Salmon Creek Falls: 9.8 mi
- Pacific Valley Drinking Fountain (disused): 1.9 mi
- Drinking Fountain (abandoned): 6.1 mi
- Rigdon Drinking Fountain (disused): 11.3 mi
- Devil's Falls: 11.6 mi
- Esalen Institute: 16.8 mi
- Limekilns: 6.9 mi
- Bill Cotta Memorial: 16.5 mi
- Santa Lucia Adobe: 20.6 mi
- Tin House: 21.2 mi
- Suzuki-Roshi: 21.8 mi
- Sand Dollar Picnic Area and Beach: 0.2 mi
- Willow Creek Picnic Ground: 2.2 mi
- Mill Creek Day Use Area: 4.3 mi
- Arroyo Seco Day Use: 21.6 mi
- Puente Big Creek Bridge: 12.4 mi
- Father Junipero Serra: 13.8 mi
- Sculptures of the Goddess Sekhmet: 23.6 mi
- Old oak park: 23.2 mi
- Hearst San Simeon State Historic Monument: 24.2 mi
- The Shut-In: 19.1 mi
- Piedras Blancas Light Station: 20.7 mi
- Coastal Discovery Center: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sand Dollar Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junipero Serra Peak | N 10° | 1,784 m | 15.6 mi |
| Pinyon Peak | NNE 16° | 1,602 m | 17.6 mi |
| Cone Peak | N 351° | 1,572 m | 9.0 mi |
| Black Butte | N 350° | 1,497 m | 24.0 mi |
| Twin Peak | NNW 346° | 1,468 m | 9.2 mi |
| Bear Mountain | NNE 18° | 1,451 m | 17.0 mi |
| Black Cone | NNW 341° | 1,363 m | 21.2 mi |
| Anderson Peak | NNW 331° | 1,249 m | 20.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:48 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 16:17 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 52 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 68 | 69 | 65 | 58 | 52 |
| Precip in | 6.0 | 6.2 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 6.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hearst Castle, 24 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.5 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Mansfield Cone, CA, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/255485284
Day trips start here
- King City · 28 mi
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