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San Clemente Beach Trail

Overview: San Clemente Beach Trail is rated 4.8/5 from 490 Google reviews. This hiking area offers a beautiful trail with fun snack options along the way. Amenities: Reviewers often mention shade and tree cover and poop bags, seating, and other park extras. Downsides: Some reviews mention limited shade.

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4.8Google rating

490reviews

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4.8(490 reviews)

People say this hiking area offers a beautiful trail with fun snack options along the way. They highlight the lovely boardwalk trail running parallel to the shore, and the peaceful, quiet, and clean beach. They also like the convenient access via Amtrak and the nearby food options.

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owners who want shade, seating, and water accesslonger visits with useful park amenities

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AddressSan Clemente Pedestrian Beach Trail, San Clemente, CA 92672, USA

City pageSan Clemente

Imported fromSan Clemente, CA

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owners who want shade, seating, and water accesslonger visits with useful park amenitieshiking areatourist attractionsports activity location6 Google photos490 reviewsOpen now

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Annie Chanthavysouk (Chanthavysouk)2 months ago

Love this beautiful ⛱️ beach. Nice, peaceful, quiet and not too crowded coming from beaches in San Diego. Clean area. There a pier to walk out to and a restaurant at the beginning of the pier... beach is also nice for barefoot walking

Ajay Nilaver10 months ago

A one-of-a-kind gorgeous walking trail that runs parallel in both directions to the beautiful darker turquoise ocean waters. Truly lovely landscaping, very thoughtful addition of amenities (restrooms, pet stations, restaurants) and many magnificent residential structures aligning the often sheer cliff sides of the trail. Parts of the trail feel a bit more isolated even though you are just feet off the beach shores with lots of people relaxing and frolicking all along the coast. Please be prepared to greet several folks walking, jogging, cycling, and walking their pets along this trail which is 2.3 miles long in each direction. Highly recommended although please don't forget to bring your hats, sunglasses and sunscreen with you as there is almost no shade anywhere along the trail

Randy5 months ago

Nice and quiet on the Thursday that we came on. A very clean beach compared to what I’m used to in OC and LA!

TheLallyKaT3 years ago

Fantastic!!! A California dream🏝☀️Waves & surfers 🏄‍♂️🌊.Gorgeous sunset! Perfect place for fun,walking,swimming in the Pacific Ocean.At the end of the trail enjoy the good seafood cooked in the restaurants around.I went there many times and i had fun and relax always. Highly recommended 🤙hang loose⭐

Eugene Lawrence P6 months ago

Great place for a run. No dogs, few kids and few bicycles due to the fact that most of it is hard packed sand... In San Clemente, west-to-east you have the ocean, the sandy beach, the Amtrak rail line (not many trains go by but they do have safety gates that go down) and THEN the Beach Trail that I ran on (there is a portion if you head south from the pier where the trail is before the rail bed, but you cross over after about 1/2 mile)

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Monday: Open 24 hours
Tuesday: Open 24 hours
Wednesday: Open 24 hours
Thursday: Open 24 hours
Friday: Open 24 hours
Saturday: Open 24 hours
Sunday: Open 24 hours

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