El Camino Real Bell at Dinosaur Cave Park, Pismo Beach
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Touchstone
N 35° 09.255 W 120° 39.857
10S E 712757 N 3892646
This Bell is located just off Hwy 101 in Pismo Beach at Dinosaur Caves Park.
Waymark Code: WMXYV
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/07/2006
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An easy location to stop and view the Bell. Easy parking at the Dinosaur Caves Park, which appears to be a community funded project, as it looks incomplete. There are restrooms and an unusual playground, as well as a nice walking path to stretch your leg. A great stop with wonderful views if you're headed on that long drive between SF and LA.
Local history has it that an amusement park once called this property home. H. Douglas Brown began building a concrete dinosaur here in 1948, but never finished due to public outcry. The headless behemoth was removed in the 1950s.
The amusement park lot with the million-dollar views from above and sea caves below is now on track to become the next seaside park in Pismo Beach. It doesn't look spectacular just yet, but it's open for walking, photography and general enjoyment. It's an 11-acre slice of the Shell Beach bluffs - the way they used to look.
But the best views from Dinosaur Caves Park are underground. Those with the sea in their blood, or perhaps just an adventurous streak will find Dinosaur Caves Park the perfect spot. The surf has cut caves into the bluffs below the park and kayakers regularly tour the holes as well as the kelp beds just beyond the surf line.
Plans for Dinosaur Caves Park call for public restrooms, a playground, two gazebos, an observation telescope, an amphitheatre with its own natural seating area, a learning center and a fishing platform in the cove at the bottom of the bluff. Walkways will crisscross the property.
References: Pismo
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