Ten Mile Beach, Ward Avenue Access — Local services in Fort Bragg

🔸 Visit Our SPECTACULAR 10 Mile Beach! Also the Inglenook Fen & Rare & Protected Dunes! FANTASTIC VIEWS of the 10 Mile River Valley & the WILD Lost Coast Range! 🔸Nearby Access to this INCREDIBLE, PAVED, Multi-Use Trail, is available from nearby MacKerricker State Park & Ward Avenue's Public Parking Lot (& Porta Potty). 10 Mile Beach is @ the North END of the "Old Mill's Lumber Haul Road" & Headlands Trail! 🔸DOGS are WELCOME in Parks, Trails & MOST Beaches ON Leash ONLY PLEASE! OFF LEASH access is available @ the Lovely Noyo River Beach, located @ the end of North Harbor Drive (FREE Parking & Restroom). MacKerricker State Park has an Off-leash Dog area by the Ranger Station. FENCED Dog "Parks" are open @ the Noyo Headlands' Cypress Street Parking Lot area & the CV Starr Community Recreation Center, on S. Lincoln Street, Fort Bragg.😃) 🔸SOUTHERN Access to Fort Bragg's PAVED, Multi-Use "Noyo Headlands Trail" (& then the "Old Mill's Lumber Haul Road") starts @ the Pomo Bluffs Park, located at the south end of Noyo River Bridge. (This is a FABULOUS BIKING TRAIL!) 🔸Heading North, it crosses the Noyo River Bridge, then the Trail is on the Left, just PAST the North Cliff Hotel. (NOT a signed ENTRANCE, but Trail has a YELLOW Metal Bollard Pipe). The Trail passes a VERY small Historic Cemetery, then connects to the Cypress Street Entrance. (FREE Entry, Parking Lot & Restrooms). 🔸 The Noyo Headlands Trail continues North w/ INTERPRETIVE Panels, ART Benches, & PICNIC Tables, to the FAMOUS "Glass Beach" (FREE Entry, Parking Lot, Restroom & Water spigot. Access is from Elm Street). 🔸PLEASE Note: it is ILLEGAL to collect the GLASS. (This Beach is a former City Dump, the last of many along the Headlands. It CLOSED in 1967). Check out the "Sea Glass Museum & Store" in the Old Union Lumber Company Store --- located Downtown, on Main Street! 🔸PLEASE BEWARE of SNEAKER WAVES on ANY ROCKS or BEACHES! AVOID CLIFFS' EDGES with UNSTABLE ERODING SOIL! 🔸The Headlands Trail/Old Mill's Lumber Haul Road continues North, crosses the Historic Pudding Creek Trestle Bridge (w/ Beach Access & Parking). 🔸Continue North to Our BEAUTIFUL MacKerricker State Park (w/ Bike, Walk IN & Car Camping. Beach access. A Boardwalk Trail goes out to the Historic Laguna Point w/ Seal & Whale Watching!). 🔸Then, past Lake Cleone, the Old Haul Road/Trail continues North, to Ward Avenue (w/ Public Parking & Porta Potty). Then continues to the END of the PAVED Haul Road & Trail @ the 10 Mile Beach Access! 🔸PLEASE! NO DOGS on Beaches or Dunes! Many RESIDENTS are Federally Protected Shorebirds & MANY other Wild-LIFE & Plant Species! 🔸Thank you! ENJOY Our PRECIOUS Public Open Spaces! The Pacific Ocean Views, Access, & Our Local Native Animals' & Plants' Habitats too! 🔸"Shell Middens" are sometimes seen along the Shoreline's Historic Soil layers as Visible Evidence of 10,000+/- Years of HUMAN...

For 40 years Ten Mile Beach has been special to me and I think it always will be. Park at Ward Ave and No dogs north but you can take your pups south. This rule is to help the Snowy Plover after animals and invasive species (like non native grasses and ice plant) pushed them to the brink. Horses need to walk on wet sand not up towards or in the dunes. I know it can be a pain to limit where we walk with our 4 leggers but it's nice to know we are saving habitats and species we have messed up. Also no more camping on the beach folks. There is an out house at the gate which is usually pretty clean, thanks to the ones who clean it and to those who don't trash it. This is a super...

Ward Ave is a beautiful walk on the old haul road. The view is amazing, never disappoints. The only disappointment I had was being told by a local when she didn't clean up after her dog, "Oh, I live here sooo, her poop just becomes compost" after offering her a bag. Yep, I live here too lady and if we don't take care of where we...