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Trip.Best Popular Water Fun Attractions in California [2024]
Escape the heat and plunge into cooling waters at these fun, water-filled activities
Updated Oct 2024
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based on 6753 reviews"Santa Monica Beach (Santa Monica Beach) is one of the most popular and well-known beaches in Los Angeles, located on the Pacific coast. It stretches for 2 miles and is a popular tourist attraction. Here you can enjoy beautiful sunsets, romantic beach walks, exciting surfing and enjoy food."Santa Monica>100km from downtown
No.14 of Best Things to Do in CaliforniaHighlights: Santa Monica Beach is a popular seaside holiday retreat in Los Angeles. Boasting turquoise water and pristine sand beaches, this is a place teeming with waterfront restaurants, bars and shops, making it a site bustling with action both day and night. With magnificent seascape much adored by Hollywood film directors, this is where many movies and TV shows have been filmed. Santa Monica Beach sits at the end of Route 66, a road of great historic value that traverses across the US from east to west. As a cultural symbol, the signpost of Route 66 is a photo takers’ mecca.Show Less - 6.94.5/5118 ReviewFree"Venice beach is a nice place to visit and to relax. Walking around with a peaceful mind and free from stress."Venice.Venice Beach>100km from downtownFeatured in Best Things to DoHighlights: Venice Beach is known as a beach holy land because of its diverse modern colors. Poets, painters, individual and creative street graffiti, and performers with different styles can be seen everywhere, and there are bodybuilders showing masculine beauty every day. Skateboarder shows off his unique skills. Come here to experience the unique American street culture, is it not a harvest in travel.Show Less
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based on 9869 reviews"BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!Business Hours:Reasons to Recommend:Reasons to Recommend:Tips:stay aReasons to Recommend: we loved this place the workers the food the rides the attmospheret resort"Carlsbad>100km from downtownFeatured in 2024 Global 100 - Family-friendly AttractionsHighlights: • LEGOLAND® California is filled with more than 60 kid-powered, kid-tastic rides, shows and attractions all built for fun and geared for families with children between the ages of 2 and 12!• LEGOLAND Water Park features more than seven slides, sandy beaches and the unique Build-A-Raft River plus Pirate Reef and LEGO® Legends of CHIMA Water Park • comprising 10 acres of water fun!• SEA LIFE® aquarium is your child's first interactive guide to the life of the sea, combining active hands-on learning with fascinating educational talks and up close encounters with sea creatures including sharks and rays!△ Exciting activities△ An intuitive feeling of the finished LEGO model△ See marine animals up closeShow Less - 5.34.7/525 Reviewbased on 671 reviews"Came on September 25, 2017. There are many public beaches along Highway 1, and the Half Moon Bay area is probably the best. It is a long beach stretching 7 or 8 kilometers; the sand is flat and the sand is small, so the sand surface is wide and flat. Add to that the beautiful arc of Half Moon Bay, the whole beach is very popular. The only fly in the ointment is that there are few amusement facilities here, and there are naturally not many tourists. So, it is more suitable for strolling, daze and sunbathing, and the scenery is not bad."Half Moon Bay>100km from downtownHighlights: Half Moon Bay State Beach stretches for four kilometers and is one of the most famous beaches in the area. The beach here can provide tourists with sunbathing, fishing, picnics, etc., everything is available, and horseback riding on the beach is also a novel experience. There is also a campsite specially set up for camping, where tourists can stay, which is very convenient.Show Less
- 5.94.6/5163 ReviewFreebased on 2719 reviews"La Jolla Beach (Jewelry in Spanish) is located in the north of downtown San Diego, a famous natural ecological reserve in Southern California, a major wealthy residential area in San Diego, and a famous tourist area. It is close to the Pacific Ocean, with excellent sandy beaches and cliffs, blue and transparent seas, sometimes calm and sometimes shocking. The beach here is particularly soft and delicate, suitable for all kinds of beach sports, the beach is also equipped with toilets and showers, when the tides rise and fall to provide many surf spots, the sea between the tides is calmer, so Lahoya has become a resort for surfers, swimmers and sunbathers."La Jolla>100km from downtownHighlights: LaJolla faces the sea on three sides, surrounded by cliffs, the coastline is winding and winding, the sandy beach is shallow and open, and the sea water is blue and transparent. Due to the good environment, sea lions and seals often haunt here. They are naive, lying lazily on the beach, attracting tourists to stop and take pictures at close range. It is also a paradise for birds. On the coastal rocks, a large number of seagulls and pelicans live here. The sea breeze is blowing, while strolling, huge seabirds fly overhead, cute seals crawl around, tourists are fully close to nature in tranquility!Show Less
- 6.74.6/5189 ReviewFreebased on 12730 reviews"Came on September 26, 2017. Highway 1 self-driving tour is an important way to visit Western/California tourism in the United States, especially the coastal section near Monterey County. It is the best and easiest part of the self-driving tour. There are more than ten viewing spots on a section of the road, and there are clear signs, you can prepare a map, or drive directly down the road. This road not only has natural landscapes (such as the raging Relentless Sea), magical animal paradise (such as Bird Rock and Seaal Rock), but also the relics of the ancestors who broke into the west (China Rock), setting up everyone to pile stones (in Spanish Bay)...Although it has been open along the coast, In fact, the scenery everywhere is not the same. The whole journey is stopped and stopped, 4 or 5 hours are needed, there are not many restaurants along the way, everyone is best to bring their own dry food."Del Monte Forest>100km from downtownFeatured in Best Things to DoHighlights: On the west coast of the United States, in Monterey County in central California, there is a circular road that surrounds private residential areas.Show Less
- 4.54.5/536 ReviewFreebased on 767 reviews"Huntington Beach is known as a rush to heaven, and due to its unique location, the waves here are particularly large, especially suitable for surfing. Every year, countless surfers come here for vacations and also bring fire to the business of bar dining by the sea."Huntington Beach>100km from downtownHighlights: Huntington Beach is the surfing capital of the western United States. The huge waves make it a surfing paradise. The giant sculpture "surfer" stands on the beach. It is also the birthplace of local California brands such as Vans and Hollister. The shopping street opposite the beach is a hot trend. Brand gathering place.Show Less
- 6.54.5/541 ReviewFreebased on 19366 reviews"With inexpensive parking nearby, amusement rides, fried food, candy, and endless people watching; the Pier is a great way to spend a whole day in Southern"Santa Monica>100km from downtownFeatured in Best Things to DoHighlights: The Santa Monica Pier is a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, and is a prominent one with over 100 years of history. The pier contains Pacific Park, an amusement park one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art solar-paneled Ferris wheel. It also has Salvation Bay, shops, entertainers, a video arcade, trapeze school, and the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium run by bars and restaurants. The western end of the pier is a popular spot for anglers. Outdoor concerts, movies, and other family-friendly events are held weekly at the marina venue during the summer.Show Less
- 4.24.6/580 ReviewFree"The full name of Carmel by the Sea is a small town in Monterey County, California, founded in 1902, Carmel is located on the Monterey Peninsula, known for its natural scenery on the coast. Carmel has a wide, fine sandy beach, and the Carmel River enters the sea on the edge of the town."Carmel-by-the-Sea.Carmel Beach>100km from downtownHighlights: The beach is located in the small town of Carmel. The sand here is relatively white and the sand is very fine, so it is more suitable for beach activities. Many fans who like surfing will come here, and if they are lucky, they will even encounter whales. Visitors can sunbathe on the beach and listen to the waves. When it comes to the small town of Carmel, it is a highlight of the Seventeen Mile Coastal Highway in California. There are many artists and writers living in the town, so the whole place reveals a refined artistic atmosphere.Show Less
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based on 741 reviews"The California elephant seal gathering area is a famous natural elephant seal beach, close to the coastal Highway 1, which is open to the public every day for free, and can see local sea wildlife throughout the year, and sometimes you can see the loud fight of male elephant seals at close range."San Luis Obispo County>100km from downtownHighlights: This is one of the mating places for elephant seals, so many seals will gather here, which are very cute. The seals are very lazy, huddled together to sleep, and the fat ones gathered together, basking in the sun as if they were enjoying themselves, and occasionally making noises. Just by the roadside, there is a viewing platform, and hundreds of elephant seals lie on the beach, looking at the darkness from a distance. In addition, there will be volunteers here to introduce you to the habits of elephant seals and popularize knowledge. This is one of the mating places for elephant seals, so many seals will gather here, which are very cute. The seals are very lazy, huddled together to sleep, and the fat ones gathered together, basking in the sun as if they were enjoying themselves, and occasionally making noises. Just by the roadside, there is a viewing platform, and hundreds of elephant seals lie on the beach, looking at the darkness from a distance. In addition, there will be volunteers here to introduce you to the habits of elephant seals and popularize knowledge.Show Less
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