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Pismo State Beach is a 17-mile-long beach on California’s Pacific coast, surrounded by large dunes and stretching in front of the small coastal towns of Oceano, Pismo Beach, and Grover Beach. The beach is great for swimming, fishing, surfing, camping and hiking, and is known for the famous Pismo clam.

It is a bird watchers’ paradise as it is home to the brown pelican, ivory gull, and great blue heron. It is also the country’s largest monarch butterfly over-wintering colony. The sea is full of life such as abalone, sea urchins, anemones, crabs and kelp. The Pismo Beach Nature Center is located in the campground, on the Oceano part of Pismo Beach.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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