“beautiful mile-long beach”
Twelve miles south of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria State Beach offers a mile of beach for swimming, surf fishing, tidepool exploring and camping. Although dogs are not allowed on beach we have a great picnic area where they are allowed to enjoy the outdoors as well. Lifeguards patrol the beach year round while lifeguard towers are staffed roughly from memorial day weekend through labor day weekend. The Spanish named the area Carpinteria because the Chumash tribe, which lived in the area, had a large seagoing canoe-building enterprise, or "carpentry shop" there, because of naturally-occurring surface tar which was used to seal the boats.
Easily my least favorite and most expensive campsite on my 2 month cross country camping trip. I camped here 10/15/2015. Tent camping was $45, for a patch of ground that was essentially a parking lot surrounded by RVs. RV camping here is even more expensive, I think it was 60 or 70. Also you are close to the road and there is a train that comes by every few hours which is likely to disturb your slumber.
Beautiful beach, but the lack of hot water showers and the 5 am train were not great.
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Carpinteria State Beach
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- Sun - Sat: 7:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Pets Allowed
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Wheelchair Accessible
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Credit Cards Accepted
- Max Length
- 35 ft
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- Year Round
- Season End
- Year Round
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Full Hookup
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Tent Sites
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Dump Station
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