William Randolph Hearst Memorial Beach — Attraction in Cambria

Every year on vacation we visit this beach and Pier. It's located directly across from the entrance to Hearst Castle and there's a nice little pocket park to enjoy lunch. It has barbecues so bring your charcoal and cook your meal while you're visiting. The pier is about 200 yards long and most of the time when were there there are people fishing off of it. There's a small town located just to the right of it with a small Market where you can pick up food if you forgot to pick up some when you were...

We stopped at every vista point coming from north to south, starting with Elephant seal vista point. (Would have been the light hide but it was closed. It’s opened 3 days a week for two hours).

William R. Hearst State Beach is the closest public restrooms. It’s also where you have access to the pier that you can spot from 101.

The restrooms were clean and there are 4 single stalls. Don’t forget to go to the back. One at each corner.

We saw a several parties having a picnic at the tables...

Me and my girlfriend had an awesome time we were looking to head to Carmel but decided to stop here and honestly I feel like we didn't miss out at all. We had the entire beach to ourselves, it really helped just capture our moment. We spent the night in of the hotels up the road. We watched the sunset as well the sunrise from the beach for an asking experience. The beach was a little dirty from trash and what not but still a...