Moonlight State Beach black and white wall art print is beautifully printed using archival inks on thick, gallery-quality matte paper. You can choose to walk Neptune Avenue back to Moonlight State Beach.MOONLIGHT STATE BEACH BLACK AND WHITE POSTER PRINT Climb the stairs to a large parking lot in a residential neighborhood and enjoy the grand, palm-framed views. End your beach hike here or (if it’s low tide) continue about 0.7 mile farther to Grandview Beach and the impressive, built-to-last Grandview staircase. The beach is usually a wide enough thoroughfare, but can disappear during a high tide.Īt Beacon’s, very popular with surfers, a sandy trail switchbacks up to a small parking lot. Surfers, divers and anglers do trek to Stone Steps. And besides, parking atop the bluffs is scant to say the least. Not many parents want to take their kids up and down a ten-story staircase to a beach with no facilities. Stone Steps has an altogether different vibe than Moonlight. A half-mile walk brings you to a lifeguard tower, a towering staircase and Stone Steps Beach, aka Seaside Gardens County Park. Cross Cottonwood Creek and head up-coast along the beach. The hike: Take the ramp to shore at the end of B Street. Alternative transportation alert: Amtrak trains stop at the Encinitas Station, located about five blocks from Moonlight State Beach. Leave your vehicle in the hilltop parking lot on the right. Turn left, go a block to C Street and turn right. Leucadia’s beaches were once wider and sandier the waves are still as good as ever, though, and remain very popular with surfers.ĭirections: From the San Diego Freeway (5) in Encinitas, exit on Encinitas Boulevard and head west a half mile to 3rd Street. Neptune Avenue, which parallels the coast, leads all the way through the residential community, and offers an alternate return route for this beach hike.īack in the 1980s and earlier, Beacon’s Beach and beyond was known as Leucadia State Beach. Leucadia and its streets were named for a group of British spiritualists, with a penchant for classical culture, who came to the U.S. If you walk around town, you’ll notice Greek and Roman street names-Hygeia, Eolus, Hermes, Vulcan. Leucadia was founded during the beach real estate boom of the 1880s and named after a Greek island renowned for its beauty, fine wine and olives. The beach below Leucadia is best walked at low tide. Another guess is the name came from the beach’s use on moonlit nights by smugglers who offloaded their illegal cargo of alcoholic beverages from boats during the Prohibition years.įrom the trailhead at Moonlight State Beach, this beach hike traverses the shores on the western fringe of the town of Leucadia, occupying the bluffs above the beach. The walk to Beacon’s Beach is 2.6 miles round trip to Grandview Beach is 4 miles round trip.īy some accounts Moonlight was named by locals who used the beach for moonlight picnics in the early 1900s. Moonlight State Beach is also a fine place to begin a jaunt on the California Coastal Trail. Moonlight State Beach, a lonely place in winter, but very popular with families on sunny days. Add a cool beach town, Encinitas, to the mix. Add watchful lifeguards, clean restrooms, outdoor showers, picnic tables, fire pits, a beach equipment rental biz and a snack bar. Start with a flat, sand strand, ideal for sunning and beach play. When families think “A Day at the Beach,” Moonlight State Beach is exactly the kind of beach they have in mind.
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