From The
CA
State Parks site
San Onofre State Beach
features 3.5-miles of sandy beaches with six access
trails cut into the bluff above. The campground is
along Old Highway 101 adjacent to the sandstone
bluffs. The beach is popular with swimmers and
surfers. The park includes a marshy area where San
Mateo Creek meets the shoreline and Trestles Beach,
a well-known California surfing site. Whales,
dolphins and sea lions can be seen offshore from
time to time. The park’s coastal terrace is
chaparral-covered.
San Onofre includes San Onofre Surf Beach - a day
use facility, San Mateo campground and day use
facility, and a Nature Trail that starts at San
Mateo Canyon and leads to San Mateo State Preserve/
Trestles Beach