Lagoon Creek Beach offers many fun activities including hiking, picnicking, wildlife watching, sunbathing, and fishing. Recreational aquatic activities including swimming, kitesurfing, and kayaking are highly unsafe in the water near Lagoon Creek Beach due to its strong currents, dangerous waves, low temperature, and considerable depth. Depending on the time of the year, you can see many animals in the water near Lagoon Creek Beach including seals, sea lions, dolphins, and migrating gray whales. The Lagoon Creek Picnic Area Present near this beach offers a great picnic spot and you can also see herons in the Lagoon Pond present near this picnic area. This picnic area also has interpretive displays about the local history. A hiking trail known as the Yurok Loop Trail also starts from this picnic area and offers fantastic views of Del Norte County shoreline and the Pacific Ocean. This trail also offers views of some offshore sea stacks which are frequented by many seabirds. As an interesting fact, according to the local Native American legends, the Klamath River earlier used to flow through the False Klamath Cove rather than its current location (which is present some miles south of this cove). In addition, the area between Wilson Creek and the nearby Lagoon Creek has been often considered to be the boundary between the lands of Native American Yurok and Tolowa people.