Curated category
Populated coastal places in California
- San DiegoSan Diego sits on the Pacific coast of Southern California, sharing a 15-mile border with Mexico and earning a designation no other American city can claim…
- Oakland, CaliforniaOakland, California sits on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, and for most of its history it has lived in the shadow of the city visible across the…
- Dana Point, CaliforniaDana Point sits on a stretch of Southern California coast that a 19th-century sailor once called "the only romantic spot on the coast." That sailor was…
- Santa Barbara, CaliforniaSanta Barbara sits where the Santa Ynez Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, pinned between steep ridges and a south-facing coastline that is the longest such…
- San Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose was founded on the 29th of November 1777 , before the United States even had a Constitution , as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first…
- Goleta, CaliforniaGoleta, California takes its name from a wreck. Sometime after the 1770s, a sailing ship called a goleta ran aground at the mouth of a coastal lagoon, sat…
- Berkeley, CaliforniaBerkeley, California sits on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, a city of 124,321 people whose name traces back to a quote from an 18th-century Irish…
- San FranciscoSan Francisco sits at the tip of a narrow peninsula jutting into one of the world's great natural harbors, and for nearly three centuries it has pulled…
- Alameda, CaliforniaFor more than 3,000 years, a local band of the Ohlone tribe inhabited the low-lying marshy region that would become Alameda.
- Los AngelesLos Angeles spreads across roughly 469 square miles of land between the Pacific Ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains, and inside that footprint live an…