Carpinteria City Beach — Attraction in Carpinteria

gorgeous beach. very calm, relaxing, incredibly quiet place. lots of cute dogs, lots of dog poop. did my best to clean up trash and things where i could, but not a lot of trash bins out by the beach entrances. be careful walking near the dry sandy dunes, i stomped on a mysterious sharp object (driftwood/seashell?) and cut my foot pretty badly. the nice lifeguard lady at the outpost did her best. great place to hunt for seaglass and sand dollars at low tide. would 100% live here if i could, i’ve never been...

Nothing wrong with the beach. Easy to get too. Its long but I wouldnt say the beach/sand area is that large compared to others. So maybe that made it seem like Everybody and their mother was there on the day we went! Literally. So many people but it was fun! We rented boogie boards from a nice lady who has a small shop/shack right on the beach. Oh also there's tons of kelp. A lot more than I've ever seen. Some poor girls were dragging a mountain of it outta the water.

The kids had a great...

The beach is ok, seen better. Not crowded the day we went which was a Tuesday. Didn’t realize it till we got back to our room but the bottom of our feet were covered with black tar. The tar wasn’t visible as we walked on the beach but apparently it was there. Had a hard time scrubbing it off and also taking it off our sandals. Would not have gone there if I knew this was an issue. I’ve read all the reviews and saw one other post about tar done 3 years ago so apparently this...