2025 10 29 - State Park, Sonoma Coast, Bodega Bay CA

Town view from the park.

NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER.

The park is called Sonoma Coast State Park, the area is called Bodega Head. It overlooks the town. We've stopped at this one before, sometime in the last year or two with family.

Parking is a sand lot, it does have a two hole outhouse. Most of the trails here are single file dirt paths across the grass. Worn deep.

The area where we park is about 250 feet above the water. The parking lot and most of the paths are not quite to the top, so that you can not see water on both sides of the island from most paths.

Looking east from the parking lot, we are overlooking the town. When we get around to the south, we are overlooking an island with seals on it. We assume. We are to far away to see them but can hear them barking. When we get around to the west side we are overlooking the ocean and to the north is the narrow strip of dry land.

We could have walked many more miles but we cut off and were back to the car after about 2 miles.