Sycamore Canyon beach is one of my favorite spots along the PCH. It’s kind of tucked away in a bend, but it’s usually where I end up while out for a drive. It’s such a beautiful place to sit and relax. The beach isn’t too long with big cliff-like rocks on one side, and an open tunnel leading under the PCH to a nearby campground on the other. The first time I really visited this beach was because of a sports team I was on. Every summer we would have a Hell Week before school started and the last day we would walk or run an 8-mile hike that eventually led us through the campground and out the tunnel to Sycamore Canyon beach, where we would have a barbeque waiting for us.
Sycamore isn’t too busy, but it does attract people with its picnic benches and fire pits. It’s a great place for roasting s’mores and hot dogs. This beach also gets a lot of attention in regard to filming movies or commercials. Many times, I drive down there and end up seeing trailers and cameras. It’s always interesting to see how they can turn the beach into so many different kinds of settings just by s
witching camera angles or adding different props.
Sycamore canyon beach is also a really beautiful place to watch the sun set, but once the stars come out it’s magical. I like to pick a table to lay on top of and watch the sky. I could lay there for hours because there’s no light pollution to take away from the beauty of the stars. I can just see so much more than what I’m used to. I went to CSUN for a couple years before coming back home, and whenever I would come to visit for a weekend, I would make sure to get out to Sycamore at night because in Northridge there was so much light from the city that I was lucky to see more than three stars each night. It really made me thankful and appreciative of where my home is.
