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Twin Lakes Beach

Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in California
Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in CaliforniaDon DeBold · CC BY 2.0
Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in California
Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0
Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in California
Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0
Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in California
Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0
Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in California
Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0
Twin Lakes Beach, a beach in California
Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0

Twin Lakes Beach is a beach in California, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Harbor Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 26 miles off.

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates36.96200, -121.99849

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Santa Cruz Hostel: 1.4 mi
  • Night Fighter: 1.5 mi
  • Surfer Memorial Statue: 1.5 mi
  • Branciforte: 1.6 mi
  • Santa Cruz Bicentennial Monument: 1.7 mi
Peaks
  • Bolcoff Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Horseback Hill: 2.7 mi
  • La Corona: 3.1 mi
  • Mount Massiah: 4.5 mi
Parks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Artworks: 56
  • Otter Touching Its Tail: 0.4 mi
  • Life-size Gray Whale Sculpture: 0.6 mi
  • Stone Spire: 1.0 mi
  • Great Blue Heron Walkway: 1.0 mi
  • Santa Cruz Art League Galleries: 1.3 mi
Beaches: 55
Picnic sites: 50
  • Aloha Terrace: 1.2 mi
  • Lone Tree: 2.6 mi
  • Buckeye Picnic Area: 2.6 mi
  • Cathedral: 2.6 mi
  • Twisted Tree: 2.6 mi
Gardens: 43
Museums: 40
Waterfalls: 22
  • Moose Lodge Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Ferndell: 7.1 mi
  • Fairy Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Maple Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Five Finger Falls: 9.7 mi
Springs: 15
  • Dodero Spring: 3.1 mi
  • Crystal Springs (private): 3.6 mi
  • Horse Trough Spring: 3.8 mi
  • Redwood Springs: 6.9 mi
  • Old Growth Spring: 7.9 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Chrystal Cliff: 2.0 mi
  • Anthony's Bluff: 2.0 mi
  • Capitola Bluffs: 3.0 mi
  • Upper Quarry: 4.1 mi
  • Sand Hill Bluff: 8.7 mi
Ghost towns: 10
Lighthouses: 3
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 3.4 mi
Covered bridges: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Twin Lakes Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Loma PrietaNE1,154 m13.3 mi
Crystal PeakNE1,097 m13.8 mi
Mount UmunhumNNE1,063 m14.8 mi
Mount ThayerNNE1,061 m14.6 mi
Mount ChualNE1,046 m14.2 mi
Mount BielawskiNNW985 m18.8 mi
El SombrosoNNE917 m15.7 mi
The PeakNNW917 m18.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:5019:5320:32
September equinox06:5718:3219:06
December solstice07:1816:1516:56

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525355586063646565625651
Precip in6.46.14.32.00.90.20.00.00.11.33.26.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Santa Cruz, 2 mi away.

Tides

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, CA, 1 mi away — today’s predictions live there.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/481466132

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