Port Hueneme Beach Park

Port Hueneme Beach Park is a 50-acre city park on the Oxnard-area shoreline, set just south of the Port of Hueneme commercial port and west of Naval Base Ventura County. The 1,400-foot wooden Port Hueneme Pier is the centerpiece of the park and the dominant landmark on the beach. It began life in 1956 as a construction trestle built by the Hueneme Sanitary District for a sewer outfall pipeline. A 900-foot extension followed in 1968, and the present hourglass-shaped terminus was rebuilt in 1999 to better resist winter storms. Inland of the sand, the park holds lifeguard towers used through the summer, restrooms, volleyball courts, picnic tables, barbecues, and walking paths.

The sand bottom and breaking surf along the open beach are a surf zone biome.

The pier is the busiest water-side spot in the park, and anglers report perch from the deck. Surfing draws steady use along the beach, and the lifeguarded swim zone fills through the summer. No rocky structure or kelp sits offshore at the named beach, so snorkeling, scuba, and spearfishing in the surf are uncommon.

Parking is at the city paid lots inside the park, with a day-use fee. Restrooms, summer lifeguards, and picnic infrastructure are on site. Fishing from the pier requires no California fishing license. Port Hueneme Municipal Code section 4309 bars swimming, surfboards, skin diving, and scuba within 100 feet of the pier without city permission, so spearfishing stays out of that strip, and beyond it spearfishing is legal under standard California regulations.