San Clemente Beach
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This small beach community is built on hillsides overlooking the ocean. The city beach includes a municipal pier. Nearby are picnic tables and volleyball nets. A few eating establishments provide nourishment for the hungry swimmers, surfers and other beach goers.
The state beach is lined with cliffs and the sand is narrow, giving the beach a secluded feeling. Two trails lead to the beach from the parking area.Calafia Beach sits between the city and state beaches, and is much wider than the latter, so there is more room for volleyball and sunbathing. There is also a snack shack and restrooms here.
Train tracks parallel the beach, so the Metrolink, Amtrak, or summer beach train roars through periodically, waking sunbathers from dozing too long.
The charming little village of shops and restaurants has a weekly farmer’s market and monthly art fair are additional things to enjoy. Located a little ways south of Dana Point California, it is about an hour’s drive south to San Diego and 75 minute drive north to Los Angeles, depending on traffic.
San Clemente Accommodation options
include a resort, hotels, motels and bed and breakfast inns. For longer stays,
beach vacation rentals
are available.
See San Clemente beach camping options
or check out the
local real estate market.
Richard Nixon had his west coast home here from about 1969 to 1979. It was called La Casa Pacifica and sits over a bluff.
For more in depth information on this sunny little beach town, check out San-Clemente-Beaches.com , a local view from that rarest of creatures - a native Californian. Good information on San Onofre, Trestles, T-Street, and other beaches as well as surfing, events, art galleries, jobs and just about anything there is to know about the area from an insider's vast store of local knowledge.
To go to the Southern California Beaches Vacation Guide home page, click here.
