Located in the town of Isla Vista, Goleta Beach Park is a one-mile-long, very wide, and beige-colored sand beach situated on the east side of the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Spread across 29 acres, Goleta Beach Park is a part of Goleta Beach County Park and has a fishing pier named Goleta Pier, a 1,500-foot-long fishing pier with incredible sea and mountain views. Goleta Beach Park is also known as Goleta Pier Beach and is on the northeast side of a small peninsula called Goleta Point that is frequently visited by shorebirds. The beach is a partly manmade beach and was in created in 1945 by spreading sand onto an existing sandspit.
