Glass beach is beautiful. It’s a little tricky to find the area that still has all the glass, but it’s well worth it once you do. My kids loved it - such a unique experience. If you come, be sure to stop by the Sea Glass Museum first and pick up some seed glass to help preserve the beach.

Glass Beach is very attractive - a short walk takes you to tide pools, rocks to climb, cliffs to watch the surf, for whales and to gaze North to the Lost Coast. A former city dump, bits of colored glass are about all that is left. Walk from town, or park in lot. From here, there are paved trails for walking/biking going South to Noyo Harbor/Pomo Bluffs Park, and North to MacKerricker State Park, camping, board-walk to seal watching, a trail around Lake Cleone (walk only), then on to Ward Avenue and Ten Mile River's long beach and dune complex. Restroom at trail head.

The parking lot (free) is at the end of Elm Street. The scenery at the coast is spectacular with massive rock formations, cliffs, coves, beaches and wild flowers. Much of the beach glass is not there any more. Maybe too many visitors took it home. But with a little patience and digging in the sand, one finds the treasured glass fragments that have been made smooth by decades of tides and sand polishing. The colors are mostly white, green and brown. It helps to look at the tide chart and go on low tide when a larger area of the beach is available.

We would recommend reading Wikipedia for the history of this stretch of shoreline prior to your visit. Although visitors are discouraged from taking glass, it would appear most of it, if not all, is gone. Plenty of trails to walk and enjoy in some very soft sand. Instead, we took a lovely picnic lunch with us and found a great spot to enjoy the view and think about the history of this part of California’s coast.

We visited here on a Friday in late November 2022. Take Elm Street off of Main Street to reach the parking area, which has two bathrooms and holds about 50 cars. There was plenty of sea glass for us to find. Just take your hands down, and sort through the dirt from the sea glass. Even if you are not here for the Sea glass, the setting with the waves crashing into all the rocks is beautiful! Just make sure to leave the sea glass behind for others!

Looking into the history of this once beautiful place will reveal that the glass results from a lot of trash thrown into the water in this area decades ago. Word around town is a local "glass artist" removed a lot of the glass for his/her exhibits. The glass is not restoring itself and is now gone. Our visit was quite anticlimactic. You almost do not even know you are in the right spot there is so little glass now. If you sift through the sand and find some small nuggets to pile together then take a macro shot with a camera, it may look like a nice place to go.

Visited last month on a west coast Roadtrip. Love to dig for sea glass and knew from previous reviews there was not much left. It was a cool cloudy day but many people were out looking for glass. I feel there was still sections that had some. People were filling up baggies even though sign said not to take it. Mostly white was there but smaller pieces of color were mixed in. Wish we had more time to spend there and walk out away from the main area. It did require abit of climbing down and over to get to glass areas.

My wife and I felt disgusted after taking a walk on the beach it smelt like something was decaying. Don’t touch anything or the smell will get on your hands,phone and most likely in your car when you leave. I never felt the need to shower so badly in my life. I tossed the clothes I was wearing along with my shoes when I got home and shampooed the seats and carpet in my car.

Was just there yesterday. Unfortunately, it was very crowded and there was very little glass, unless you count the Corona and Bud bottles that people had left up on the rocks. Also, people had not picked up after their dogs and there was dog poo all around. At low tide there are some small tide pools that are pretty though, but if you are going for the glass, it might be better to time the visit after a big storm and at low tide (we were there as the time was coming in). Oh, there was a guy in the parking lot selling glass from the beach. Just FYI.

I’m an international beach sand collector, so visiting Glass Beach in Ft. Bragg was a definite must. Nice town, but we preferred to stay for a couple of days in nearby scenic and quaint town of Mendocino. Visit the Glass Beach museum in town first; they have lots to see and love to answer questions about history of the place. We spent 2 hours collecting lots of beautiful “sea glass” on the beach, then had a late lunch of delicious pizza and beer in town before our return drive along the coast to Mendocino.