page_title: List of beaches in San Diego County
section_title: Beaches in North County
hierarchical_section_title: List of beaches in San Diego County / Beaches in North County
caption_attribution_description: English: View along Cardiff State Beach, Encinitas, California, looking north
context_page_description: This is a list of beaches in San Diego County, located in Southern California in the United States. The beaches are listed in order from north to south, and they are grouped by the community in which the beach is situated.
  Some beaches in the San Diego area are long continuous stretches of sandy coastline, others, like many of the beaches in the Village of La Jolla, are small sand beaches within rocky coves or between rocky points. A number of beaches in the San Diego area have cliffs behind them, usually composed of rather soft sandstone; some other beaches front freshwater lagoons where rivers run into the coast.
context_section_description: This list of beaches in San Diego's North County is arranged from north to south; the beaches are grouped by the communities in which they occur. Although in some areas there may be a continuous long stretch of sand along several miles of coastline, especially so during low tides, nonetheless there may be different beach names at different locations, according to where the beach is accessed.
  San Onofre State Beach
  Upper Trestles
  Trestles
  Lower Trestles, Church
  Old Man's
  Trails
  Camp Pendleton a.k.a. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, has 17 miles (27 km) of coastline
  Del Mar Beach Resort at Camp Pendleton—must have base access
  Oceanside:
  Harbor Beach
  Buccaneer
  South Oceanside
  Oceanside
  Carlsbad:
  North Carlsbad beaches
  Carlsbad State Beach
  South Carlsbad State Beach
  Ponto Beach
  Leucadia:
  Grandview Beach
  Beacons Beach, a.k.a. Leucadia State Beach
  Stone Steps
  Encinitas:
  Moonlight State Beach
  D Street Beach, a.k.a. Boneyards
  Swami's Beach
  Cardiff:
  Pipes
  San Elijo State Beach
  Cardiff Reef
  George's
  Cardiff State Beach
  Seaside
  Tabletop
  Solana Beach:
  Tide Park
  Fletcher Cove Park, a.k.a. Pillbox
  Seascape Surf, a.k.a. Seascape Beach
  Del Mar Shores
  Del Mar:
  Dog Beach, a.k.a. The River Mouth
  Del Mar City Beach
  Powerhouse Park
caption: View from Cardiff State Beach
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