Channel Islands National Park
24 spots tracked
Today in Channel Islands National Park
Tide and weather hold across the whole Channel Islands National Park coastline — check here, then pick your beach.
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All Channel Islands National Park spots
Rocky Reef
Kelp Forest
Surf Zone
CanyonChannel Islands National Park · 24 spots
Five islands in the Santa Barbara Channel — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara Island. All access is by boat or Island Packers ferry from Ventura. Every spot in the park, with today's vis live.
No fishing or harvest of any kind. Special closures restrict entering the area at all.
- SMR · State Marine Reserve
- SMCA (No-Take) · No-Take State Marine Conservation Area
- FMR · Federal Marine Reserve
- Special Closure · Seabird and marine mammal buffer
Most take is prohibited. Each site writes its own short list of exceptions, commonly shore angling or spearing white seabass and pelagic finfish. Check the site rules before hunting.
- SMCA · State Marine Conservation Area
- FMCA · Federal Marine Conservation Area
State-managed waters with their own recreational rules. Commercial take is prohibited in marine parks; recreational management areas are run for specific uses such as waterfowl hunting.
- SMP · State Marine Park
- SMRMA · State Marine Recreational Management Area
Pin color is the spot's forecast visibility tier for today.
- 20–30+ ft · Perfect
- 15–20 ft · Excellent
- 10–15 ft · Good
- 5–10 ft · Fair
- 0–5 ft · Poor
- No forecast yet
MPA boundaries are drawn from CDFW's official dataset but are approximate on this map and not for navigation. Verify the boundary and current regulations with CDFW before harvesting.
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