With 840 miles of gorgeous coastline, it can be difficult to narrow down the best beaches in California. That’s why we went ...

One Southern California town is home to a charming local beach with hidden tide pools perfect for cooling off and spotting ...

Dana Point's Doheny State Beach—the first in California—is a favorite for swimming and tide pooling. Whether you visit the vintage amusement park or tool around the harbor on an electric boat ...

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

Boasting nearly 200 miles of shoreline, the beaches in SoCal are among the best in the world. The area is synonymous with palm trees, white sands, and blue waters, stretching from San Diego to San ...

Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming ...

Rubbery blue sea creatures are washing up on California beaches by the thousands.

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 ...