One of my favorite things about Moonlight State Beach is the relatively sizable free parking lot here. On B Street, heading toward the ocean, you'll make a left onto a perpendicular street, right before a small Circle Drive drop-off point, with 3 Handicapped parking spots at this beach. You'll l then proceed uphill a short ways, when you'll notice a medium-size parking lot on the right, which you may turn into. If there's no parking in there, usually a summer-time problem, continue up this hilly road, where you'll find parking spaces, ringing the U-shaped end of this road. From up here, you'll have sweeping views of Moonlight State Beach, and the ocean, a bit further out.

I also love how close it is to the beach, from the parking areas. We watched an epic sunset at this beach, on 1/12/23.

Another plus here, if you like Beach Volleyball, is they have 3 regulation-size beach volleyball courts set up on the sand. If I were forty years younger, heck, I might even have been out there, playing on one.

As an added bonus, there are public restrooms with soap dispensers at the sinks here, plus a super handy concession stand, in case you get hungry, during your visit. Not only that, Moonlight State Beach has a small rental shop, next to this food place, where you can rent beach gear, such as surf boards, wetsuits, Boogie Boards & the like, in case you don't have your own.

It's just a short jaunt across the sand, or a provided concrete walkway, that dissects the middle of this beach, which ends at a concrete circle, surrounding a towering Palm tree. From there, it's across a bit of sand, to a hilly berm, overlooking the water. Then proceed downhill, across a slightly-inclined band of round rocks, which in turn give way to a thin bit of sand, at the water, you'll notice, at low tide. These rocks will shift under your feet as you walk. They also add interest to this rather plain-looking beach. Slightly further south, from the concrete walkway, is a mesh walkway, very helpful for disabled, or handicapped persons, which will get you closer to the water, than the concrete walkway does.

I witnessed a continuous procession of 3 different waves lines form, from furthest, all the way into the more gentle shore breaker waves. The waves farthest out were nice-sized 6 footers, when we were here. I witnessed 2 surfers get some truly epic rides out there, near sunset.