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Beach adjacent to MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, CA, named from abundant sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.
General Information
Best visited during low tide for optimal sea glass viewing
Free parking available at designated lots near Elm Street and Glass Beach Road
How to Get There
From Mendocino, CA (10 mi): Head north on CA-1 for approximately 10 miles, turn left onto Elm Street in Fort Bragg, then follow signs to Glass Beach Road and the designated parking area.
Overview
In 1906, Fort Bragg residents established an official water dump site behind the Union Lumber Company. Over the next several decades, what was biodegradable in the dump sites simply degraded and the pounding waves broke down the glass and pottery and tumbled those pieces into the small, smooth, colored pieces that often become jewelry-quality, which cover Glass Beach and the other two glass beaches (former dump sites) in Fort Bragg. The beach is now visited by tens of thousands of tourists yearly.
There are three Glass Beach sites in Fort Bragg where trash was dumped into the ocean between 1906 and 1967. Site Two and Three are located at the end of the path that begins on the corner of Elm Street and Glass Beach Drive. These sites are accessible by foot and by a short climb down the cliffs surrounding the beach. Site One is 1/4 mile south of Site Two and has become accessible by foot as of January 2015 when the northern section of the new Coastal Trail in Fort Bragg opened.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Glass Beach (Fort Bragg, California)", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
