“Just to the south of the Children’s Pool is a beach popularly called Wipeout, perhaps because of the rocky shoreline coupled with hazardous moving water. Just south of the beach, Coast Boulevard Park offers a perfect vantage point for a bird’s eye view of La Jolla’s beaches. At low tides this area offers great tidepools and good collections of shells to discover. Mmm, salad bar…” Sandbag C. Gull
Although swimming at Wipeout Beach is not recommended, under the proper conditions this area offers wonderful diving with dramatic undersea arches and shelves teeming with lobster. Sitting just below Coast Boulevard Park itself is the area known as Hospitals, a great reef and surfbreak, but a poor beach. Around the point, Whispering Sands offers more reefs to explore but little in the way of sand before the beach disappears in the shadow of priceless waterfront homes.
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Wipeout Beach
Coast Boulevard Park
Whispering Sands Beach
Logistics
- Lifeguard services → if any ← varies by season, day, hours, even weather!
- Coast Boulevard Park is wheelchair accessible at the street level, but the beach can only be accessed via concrete stairs
- There are no facilities at this beach, but Children’s Pool offers public restrooms nearby
- South of Children’s Pool, there is street parking available on Coast and South Coast Boulevards
Directions
Take Interstate 5 to La Jolla Village Drive, and head west. Turn left at Torrey Pines Road to proceed south and then west to La Jolla Village area. Turn right at Prospect Place. From Prospect Street, make a right at Jenner Street and continue as it merges into Coast Blvd. Beyond the Children’s Pool lies Wipeout. Enjoy!
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