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| State Park Overview: |
 | The park has 760 acres of beach, sand dunes, and flat grasslands, with nearly 18,000 feet of ocean frontage. The beach line curves gently to form a "catch basin" for sea debris, which accounts for the volume of driftwood found here. Five miles of gentle, sandy beach stretches southward towards the Point Arena Lighthouse.
One of the main attractions is the excellent steelhead and salmon fishing in the park?s two streams, Brush Creek and Alder Creek.
The park features a variety of coastal wildflowers, including sea pinks, poppies, lupines, baby blue eyes and blue irises. The park provides habitat for tundra swans. The San Andreas Fault runs into the sea at the park.
The park takes its name from the village of Manchester, which is located in Mendocino County on Coast Highway 1 about seven miles north of Point Arena.
This is an area of rich grazing lands flocks of sheep and herds of cattle which add a pastoral note to some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the world. |
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| Area Accommodations |
| B&Bs / Inns | | Wharf Master's Inn - | | Stevenswood Spa Resort - A four diamond / five star country inn and restaurant of contemporary elegance nestled in the forest by the sea on the Mendocino Coast. The perfect escape with its canyon side private spas and sculpt | | Glendeven Inn - Delightful 1867 country inn on the Mendocino coast with fireplaces, ocean views, private baths. Breakfast delivered to your room. Art gallery and lovely gardens. Peaceful. |
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| Related Links: |
| Mike's Kayak Journal - Manchester Beach State Park. Click on the red kayak trails to read the journal entry for that trip. Back to the Mendocino County map. Or back to my home page. Mike Higgins / higgins@monitor.net | | Cycling the Northern California Coast - Day 4 - ... so far that my panniers would scrape the ground, but it never happened. I arrived at Manchester Beach State Park. The hiker/biker site was a big, open area. Cold and windy and foggy. But so was ... | | California Photos - ... California Coastline (11/17/02) Northern California Coastline (11/17/02) Camped out on the Manchester Beach State Park (11/17/02) A young buck is on the prowl during the evening (11/17/02) | | Seattle to Cayucos - ... after staying out with the fire. We were looking at the day ahead and decided that since Manchester Beach State Park did not have showers and the KOA had showers and a hot tub that we would share ... | | Trip Diary - ... up the coast, at least sort of. We'll see. It has begun. Monday, 22 August, 1994 Manchester Beach State Park - We started driving up the coast today. After picking up an application at Stanford we ... |
| Directions: |
| The park surrounds the town of Manchester; the beach entrance is ? mile north of town on Highway One. |
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