North America · Illustrated record
Black Sands Beach
Shelter Cove · United States
The short version, from the cited sources
A remote shore of dark grey-black sand and cobbles on California's Lost Coast, where the King Range drops straight into the Pacific and no highway was ever built. Cold water, frequent fog and a strong undertow.
- Country
- United States (US)
- Region
- North America
- Sand
- Black
- Water
- Cold open pacific with a strong undertow
- Administrative area
- Shelter Cove
- Timezone
- Not available from source
- Source family
- OpenStreetMap
- Source updated
- 2026-09-02
Names in the record
Black Sands Beach
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
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Source position
37.82391, -122.50874
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Open Database License 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02