Just outside of Santa Cruz, this golden beach is a remote paradise. Stroll the vacant sands while watching surfers shred and ...

Singers and scribes have waxed poetic for decades about the best beaches in California—here, find our favorites.

Either way, California offers hundreds of beaches to choose from. To help you decide which stretch of shoreline to travel to next, U.S. News considered traveler sentiment and factors like ...

Golden sunsets, sandy beaches, perfect waves, that’s California dreamin’. As cliche as it may sound, more often than not the state doesn’t disappoint. From the northern border with Oregon to ...

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Coastal erosion has been washing away San Clemente’s beaches for years. In fact, a sales tax increase was on November’s ...

Montecito has long been known as a sanctuary for the rich and first-name-only famous: Oprah, Ellen, Harry and Meghan. But lately, with the arrival of restaurants and boutiques worth traveling for ...

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California boasts more than 420 public beaches, meaning it's not difficult to stumble across a prime stretch of sand. But not all of the state's shorelines are created equal. Each one of these 10 ...