The ‘Lost Coast’ Is California’s Wildest Seaside Discovery—but First You Have to Find It. ... gritty black sand beaches, ... there were still mad surges sweeping up the beach.

California's Lost Coast. ... and black sand beaches, as well as a menagerie of fauna: black bears, mink, deer, and river otter traverse the land while peregrine falcons and bald eagles patrol above.

The first I heard of the Lost Coast Scenic Drive in Northern California was two days before we arrived. I had heard it was an ...

In a state lined with spectacular coasts from Big Sur to the Channel Islands and beyond, the Lost Coast is in a wildly ...

Black Sands Beach, Lost Coast. As the name suggests, this beach is famous for its black sand, which provides a stunning contrast to the slate blue of the ocean and the grassy headlands of the Lost ...

A departure from the usual light-colored, quartz-rich sands you find on the California coast, this small black-sand beach — formed from ancient lava-based pillow basalt — in the Golden Gate ...

An hour after the late afternoon high tide had peaked and the sun was dropping, my girlfriend Holly and I decided to make a run for it. Our four-mile dash was along Northern California’s Lost ...

It was 1996, and while traveling through the Lost Coast in far northern California, my boyfriend and I were camping without a tent on the beach. We’d been to Yosemite and some other places, but ...

Situated along the south coast of Iceland by the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon, Diamond Beach is a narrow strip of black sand that's part of the Breiðamerkursandur glacial plain.