Sunset Cliffs Natural Park
Point Loma · San Diego County · California
Visibility Breakdown
Visibility by position
Solid = diver report · outlined = our reading
Post Break: The range past where any waves are forming, where the water starts to have a significant increase in visibility. There might be some sediment here, but swell energy is diffused and the water is calmer.
Open Water: This zone is far out enough from the shore that the water is at its clearest. It’s deep enough that sediment is not disturbed by the wave energy at the surface. Haze can sit near the surface, so the water is usually clearer the deeper you go.
Through the day
Today's visibility readings at this spot, shown at the hour each one was taken.
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Coastal Bulletin
About Sunset Cliffs Natural Park
Why it reads 9–13 ft
Medium confidence
7-Day Forecast
Today is the live headline above. Tomorrow onward is the algorithm's forecast from predicted swell, wind, and rain, updated each morning and at 6 PM Pacific.
Map and parking
San Diego, CA 92107
Dirt lots at the foot of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard near Ladera Street, plus street parking along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Spaces fill before sunset on weekends and during summer. The maintained stairway is at the end of Ladera Street; other entries are unimproved.
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About Sunset Cliffs Natural Park
Sunset Cliffs Natural Park is a 68-acre cliff-edge park on the western flank of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego. The park runs from Adair Street in the north to the Naval Reservation in the south, and the sandstone bluff along that stretch has been carved into sea caves and arches by long exposure to the open Pacific. At the foot of Ladera Street sits Garbage Beach, a name usually traced to the heavy loads of kelp that wash up among its rocks, though some accounts tie it instead to trash thrown over the bluff in earlier decades. The only maintained access is the concrete stairway at the end of Ladera Street; the other entries are unimproved scrambles down the sandstone. Cliff failures on the unstable sandstone recur, and rescues follow them regularly.
Species found here
Researched habitat and range candidates. A listed species may be seasonal or depth-limited; this is not a confirmed sighting at this location.
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