Thinking of hitting the beaches in California, but aren't sure where to start? There are many different beaches you can visit ...

Our four-mile dash was along Northern California’s Lost Coast—in a particularly gnarly ... Stuffed with craggy rock outcroppings, gritty black sand beaches, and a mess of rushing creeks ...

The combination of black sand and blue water at this beach on Northern California's remote Lost Coast is stunning. (Getty Images) As the name suggests, this beach is famous for its black sand ...

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 untouched coastal wilderness so thick and uninhabited only a few […] ...

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 ...

Fire and coast guard teams in Humboldt ... 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and black sand beaches on the afternoon of March 22 when one of them ...

It was 1996, and while traveling through the Lost Coast in far northern California ... We finally get to Shelter Cove, and the black sand is just awesome. The redwoods come straight down to ...

The Lost Coast Trail traces 53 miles of the Northern California coast between Fort Bragg and Fortuna. Along the way, it winds past black-sand beaches, sea lion colonies, coastal waterfalls ...

Along Northern California's wave-battered Lost Coast, you’re unlikely to run ... A good portion of the coastal route is on black sand beaches where you can hike barefoot, but bring trail shoes ...