Location: County: Mendocino. Nearest City: Manchester.
Campsites, facilities: 48 primitive sites - no showers.
Please contact the park directly for detailed camping availability
information.
Reservations, fees: Call the park for information.
Contact: Phone the park at 1-707-882-2463.
Manchester SP
P.O. Box 440
Mendocino CA
Operating hours, seasons: Call the park for information;
open all year round.
Park Kiosk Hours:
Directions: The park surrounds the town of Manchester;
the beach entrance is 1/2 mile north of town on Highway One.
Weather, clothing: The weather can be changeable; layered
clothing is recommended.
Trip notes: Manchester State Park has 760 acres of
beach, dunes and flat grasslands. Five miles of gentle, sandy
beach stretches southward towards the Point Arena Lighthouse.
One of the main attractions is the excellent steelhead and salmon
fishing in the park's two streams, Brush Creek and Alder Creek.
The park features a variety of coastal wildflowers, including
sea pinks, poppies, lupines, baby blue eyes and blue irises.
The park provides habitat for tundra swans. The San Andreas Fault
runs into the sea at the park.
© 2001, Miwok Lodge 439, Order of the
Arrow, Santa Clara County Council Inc., BSA
Revision 1.2
