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Twelve miles south of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria camping 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 and 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" here. This was because of naturally-occurring surface tar, which was used to waterproof the canoes.
Seals and sea lions can be seen in the area December through May, as well as an occasional gray whale. Tidepools contain starfish, sea anemones, crabs, snails, octopi and sea urchins.
A nice stretch of beach. Choose a spot to your liking. Rocky areas and bigger waves or smooth sand and calm waters. It's a nice place to relax without the hustle and bustle of busy piers or attractions. Check out the geological history of the area, too. The fault line, the plates and the byproducts of the Pliestocene era.
Carpinteria is a amazing little beach town and the campground is really nice they have a camp restrooms and showers and the campground is right next to the beach!! every morning I took a walk on the beach and it was the best. Also i say a beautiful sunset!!
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This place is a definition of a beautiful sleepy California beach town. If you want to avoid the hustle and bustle of the big touristy beach towns, stay here. It’s got some good mom and pop restaurants and a small shopping plaza for your basic needs, some hotels and inns and even a brewery. Due to the severe high waves weather advisory, we didn’t stay long, but we still enjoyed the morning walk on the beach.
