Weston Beach Point Lobos — Attraction in Monterey

Special sandstone embedded in the cement. After checking Wikipedia, this special rock is called Carmelo Formation. See reference from Wiki below. “Around 55 million years ago, in the Paleocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period (Cenozoic Era), a submarine canyon cut down through the granodiorite basement rock and sediments comprising the Carmelo Formation were deposited. The Carmelo consists of pebble to cobble conglomerate, medium to coarse grained sandstone and mudstone. The included pebbles are mostly of volcanic origin. They were brought by rivers draining volcanic highlands. During transport their rough shape became rounded and polished. The sediments were deposited as submarine landslides and and...

Great for tide pooling! We came on a Sunday around 8 am (after checking tide charts) and it was a bit foggy and chilly. We parked off of Highway 1 near the Point Lobos entrance to avoid waiting in the line of cars, and it was about a 15 minute walk to the Weston Beach tide pools. If you drive in to Point Lobos, it’s a $10 entrance fee. At the tide pools we saw many crabs, sea urchins, sea anemone, starfish, fish, and eel. Rocks were a bit slippery. Beautiful...

Not an excelent but a very good place to share time with friends, family and kids for exploration, learning and recreation purposes; I disapoint that many areas are restricted to public. Access is denied alleging becouse in restoration or in protection of flora and founa as well as in a holiday or memorial days parking is usually full, besides it if improvements are done, this forests park easily could be from 4 to 5 starts regardless of the $...