Capistrano Beach Park

This isn’t your typical beach with surfer buffs, squealing happy children, and huge family picnics. Capistrano Beach greets you with more subtleness, inviting you to relax with lullaby waves.
It sits below a residential neighborhood along PCH, parallel to railroad tracks. There are basketball courts and a few picnic tables. Parking is $ 1 per hour. Restrooms are available.
The sandy part of the beach itself is clean; only washed up rocks, seaweed, and birds who share the scenery. Afar in the ocean you can spot sail boats and a peninsula. This spot makes for perfect photo shots with an excellent HD camera. And if the sky is clear with a bright sun, consider yourself a spoiled lucky brat.
It would be good idea to keep one of those woven mats and/​or small blanket throws in your trunk in case you decide a beach nap is affordable in your busy life. I recommend making it affordable ;-)

Beautiful beach. Love the entire city

One of my favorite beaches. Love that its not a tourist attraction like all the other ones I live by. Went on the 5^th of July and there were a couple locals, thats all. Water is clean too!

My grandparents have a house on Beach Rd., so I come here all the time and I absolutely love Capo Beach. Although it always seems there are rocks on the shore, it’s a very beautiful, clean beach. There is free parking and attractions to keep people busy. I love riding my bike up and down the beach in the bike lane.

We had the beach to ourselves. It was a little rocky but clean. We will definitely be back.

I grew up near this beach, so I have a lot of memories here!
PARKING:
This beach has a metered parking lot. There is also free street parking off of PCH. If you park on the street there is a overpass you can walk across to cross over the train tracks.
ACTIVITIES/​AMENITIES:
This beach has bathrooms, drinking fountains, benches, showers, basketball court, and a bike rental shop.
North of this beach is Doheny State Beach. In order to get in here you have to go through the gate at Doheny and pay. The part right next to Capo Beach is day parking, with a lot of fire pits. Fun place to come! The overpass from the street parking, empties into this day parking area.
I grew up riding my bike with my family here and having bon fires. Fun place to come!
It also is a easy beach to bring your kids to since the parking lot is real close to the sand. If you have a lot to carry, you won’t have to go far!
The waves here are kinda mellow mostly. There are no waves for surfing, so it can be a easy place to launch a paddle board or kayak. The waves they do have just break right on shore. Usually they aren’t too big, but can be sometimes depending on the swell.

Beautiful beach with an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean nestled between beautiful San Clemente and Dana Point. Nice beach to spend an amazing day with friends or family as there are plenty of benches, nice clean sand to relax and even a basketball court to challenge friends to a game. Sit in one of the benches and enjoy an amazing sunset or sit and enjoy a bonfire in the evening in one of many fire pits. Lifeguards throughout the beach to add security and clean restrooms as well. Who can ask for more, hey you can even bring your furry friends.

Capistrano Beach is a gem! It’s a long, expansive beach with a nice walking trail nearby. If you want to come to the beach for an hour without shelling out too much dough, Capistrano Beach is for you. Parking is $ 1 an hour which is a steal considering the state parks (San Onofre SB, San Clemente SB, Doheny SB) charge $ 15 for a day pass. The surrounding bluffs are scattered with multi-​million dollar homes. Oh, to be rich & famous! My only complaint is that the sunset doesn’t set over the water as Dana Point is in the way. If you want to see the sunset over the water and not land, head to Doheny or one of the other nearby beaches. I will return to Capitstrano Beach, though, as it’s laid back, beautiful and an overall great spot to be at dusk time.

Shhhhh… don’t tell anyone. Quiet county beach just south of Doheny State Beach. Hardly ever crowded, plenty of parking. Great place to watch the waves and get some sun. Not a great kids beach. It’s very rocky and the shore break makes wading difficult. A buck an hour to park is a bargain.

This beach is beautiful and not crowded and pleasant to sit on the sand in… but the walk out to the water is SO rocky. You have to get to about waist/​chest height before you hit sand again.

The water is really Murky and the rocks are SOOO SOOO soo painful I got cuts :(so bring water shoes :)

Capistrano Beach Is one of South Orange counties best kept secrets. This is a small secluded public beach near Dana Point Harbor. with public basketball courts and volleyball courts on the beach, This is also the perfect place to rent a vacation home on the Private beach of Capo Bay, with beach house rentals right on the beach. www​.Vaca​tion​Homes​.Travel has some great homes that can sleep 30 in one home, We have stayed in a 3 bedroom vacation rental on Capistrano beach on July 4^th and enjoyed the firework show the city of Dana Point puts on over the water every year. So I would Vote Capistrano Beach the #1 beach in So Cal, For the day or the week its a great place to play.

Nice beach to view the water, but I don’t see myself running on the beach at this location. Rocks, rocks, and more rocks. It’s impossible to run around the rocks.

I could go on for days about how great this beach is but I have to admit my review is a little biased. My aunt and uncle own a house on Beach Road and I’ve spent most of my summers there. on the private beach. :) But I have made the long walk down to the public beach many times.
The public beach is really nice, sometimes there is trash here and there but for the most part it is very clean. There is a basketball court along with a couple volleyball courts which are always full of people. There are many restaurants and other services nearby. And access to freeways are also very close. One downside to this beach is it can be very rocky at times. This makes it difficult to do any skim boarding, and boogie boarding and surfing can be dangerous. The public beach opens daily at 6:00 AM and closes at 10:00 PM. It really is a beautiful family friendly beach. There are also really clean bathrooms and there is always plenty of parking. With this beach being nestled between two cute little beach towns one day of exploring is not enough. Rent a house on Beach Road grab a beer and walk down the beach.

WOW
The views are amazing. This is a very clean quite beach. I loved it! Parking was great and the bathrooms were clean.

Super easy beach to go to.
Easy, close parking.
Really reasonable parking prices.
Easy parking machines– No quarters!
Clean and close restrooms.
Nice walking/​rollerblading path.
Never seen it crowded.
Not a fan of rocky beaches –1 star.

Capo Beach is the small little community nestles in between Dana Point to the north and San Clemente to the south.
Super easy to park… they have metered spaces in lots in which you can park between the hours of 6am and 10pm… and plenty of restrooms to utilize if your gun-​shy about getting in the frigid Pacific to tinkle during winter months! lol Plenty of showers and picnic tables as well. Wonderful beach for sittin’ on the sand and for surfing…
Capo’s one of those place you can go in the evening and chill on the beach since it’s a simple and quick walk from the lot. Also great in that there a few hotels and restaurants sprinkled just on the other side of PCH from the beach… including Olemendi’s Mexican restaurant (highly recommend!).
Highlights on the beach include a bike path (great for rollerblading to and from Doheny State beach to the north) and lots of volleyball (so bring a ball… or a Frisbee!).