Virtual Guidebook to Monterey, Big Sur and the Central Coast
Carmel Bay and Carmel River Beach
Carmel California

The broad bay between Pebble Beach and Point Lobos is one of the most famous and best-loved stretches of the California coast.

The shoreline of the town of Carmel is lined with sugar-sand beaches and unpretentious but elegant houses. Then there is a broad public beach across the mouth of the Carmel River, and finally, a small steep crescent of sand named for the nearby Camelite monastery. It is here that a branch of the Monterey Submarine Canyon comes almost to shore.