Top Surfing Beaches in Coronado, California
Located near the San Diego Bay, Coronado Beach - also known as Central Beach and Coronado Central Beach - is a large and flat beach with light brown sand and sparse vegetation. Coronado Beach starts near the historic Hotel del Coronado and spans north along Ocean Boulevard all the way north to a park named Sunset Park. This popular beach is one of the main beaches of the resort-city of Coronado (which is also nicknamed as "Crown City"). Coronado Beach has been named one of the Top 100 beaches in the United States by Randall Kaplan, the world’s foremost beach expert who is known as Mr. Beach. The approximately one-and-a-half miles long beach has a wonderful backdrop of oceanfront residential buildings. The sand in Coronado Beach has a substance named mica, which occasionally causes it to shine. Visitors can encounter this shining sand around the water near Coronado Beach during calm water conditions. The shoreline around this beach also has remnants of a sunken ship named SS Monte Carlo, which was shipwrecked here in the 1930s.
Located in the city of Coronado, Silver Strand State Beach is a two-mile-long beach on the west side of Silver Strand Boulevard. The beach is situated south of a US military property and north of a campground that provides parking space for RVs.
Located in the city of Coronado, Glorietta Bay Park Beach is a small north-facing beach that is a part of the Glorietta Bay Park and is situated on the San Diego Bay.