Friday March 27, 2026- I’ve been coming to this beach since I was little, same location same lifeguard tower and it’s always been such a nice beach, but it is by far the nastiest, dirtiest beach now. My child found a used syringe laying in the sand. Don’t come here unless you want to be accidentally poked by a dirty needle. DO BETTER BOLSA CHICA AND CLEAN YOUR BEACHES. And if you’re visiting, TAKE YOUR TRASH WITH YOU !!!!!

This was the dirtiest beach I've ever been to. Spent 15 minutes on the the beach walking. So much garbage. We found 2 syringes on beach with kids playing near. Picked them up though them out and left.

Visited this beach as out-of-towners from the East Coast in early September.Overall, a very nice beach with good parking, good bathroom facilities, and plenty of helpful lifeguards for the time of year.I learned how helpful the lifeguards were when I got stung by a stingray on my foot after being in the water for just 5 minutes.Turns out I was far from alone in that experience - had at least 15 other people receiving treatment (soaking stung body part in crazy hot water for 90 minutes!) while I was being treated.All lifeguards said they had been stung by stingrays there before and there had been a lot of people requiring treatment over the past few days.Would have been very nice to have received some kind of warning from the state park folks who were happy to collect my $15 for parking, but not give any warnings about what is apparently a very common hazard. Very many people walking and riding by on the sidewalk near where we are all soaking our feet gave nice encouraging words that basically were “been there, done that, glad it’s not me today.”I would go back to sit on the beach, but would not enter the water without heavy water shoes/boots!!!

I have been to every state park in CA. Bolsa Chica state beach is the worst run park in the CA system! Bathrooms are disgusting, the bike trail is full of sand and getting in takes 1 hour because they never have any help.

I booked this campsite in error for thefollowing day.As it was out of hours, I could not speak toanyone to explain. When I contacted a repthe next day they just quoted 'policy' andsaid (patronisingly) they would not offerany refund of the $70. This is after Iimmediately cancelled it and they couldsell the plot again to someone else.Escalated, but heard nothing back.Awful, petty customer service, but havingread the reviews of the campground,maybe I dodged a bullet.