Seaside Beach

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Beautiful, sandy, and popular, Seaside Beach is located ten miles north of Fort Bragg. It’s owned and managed by the Mendocino Land Trust. This expansive pocket beach is much loved by locals and visitors to the Mendocino Coast.

Dogs are welcome at Seaside, but not allowed south of the Ten Mile River, which is at the south end of this beach. The endangered snowy plover lives and nests just south of the Ten Mile River. This is a small shorebird that is protected by Federal law. State Parks will ticket anyone with a dog in the Ten Mile Dunes Natural Reserve. Please respect these rules, and keep your dog north of the Ten Mile River at all times. The snowy plover’s survival in this area depends upon you!

Important Note: There are no trash collection facilities at Seaside Beach, so please keep this beach beautiful and safe by taking all your trash home with you. This includes cans, bottles, diapers, orange peels, toilet paper, broken flip-flops – everything!

“Go before you go”: Be prepared for no restroom facilities. While a porta-potty is sometimes available during the summer season, due to frequent vandalism and dumping of trash it is often not usable.

Trail History

The Coastal Land Trust, the former owner of Seaside Beach, completed a successful Japanese knotweed removal project in 2010, which removed about 0.3 acres of this invasive plant at the edge of the meadow, east of Seaside Beach. One of the photos shows the knotweed removal effort while it was underway.