Visit Half Moon Bay Coastside

Tide pools at Pescadero State Beach.

Surfer's Beach at sunset, during minus tide (in 2019) when the receding water exposes rocky parts of the beach that are usually hidden in the water.

Año Nuevo State Park, south of Half Moon Bay. In addition to its natural beauty, the coastline here is also significant for being the coastal-midpoint of California. If you ever decide to walk from Mexico to Oregon along the coast, this is your halfway point!

"Back in the day, Pescadero a small coastal town about a half-an-hour drive South of Half Moon Bay on Highway 1 was a fishing village. It’s since evolved into more of a farming and ranching community with a one-block main street and has become a popular weekend tourist destination in close proximity to beaches and state parks."

Are you looking for fall festival activities? Or just a pretty pumpkin? Either way, this guide to Half Moon Bay pumpkin patches has you covered. https://californiacrossings.com/best-half-moon-bay-pumpkin/

At work? need a 20 second escape? Here is what the 16th hole on the Ocean Course looks like today. Enjoy the bliss!

"Back in the day, Pescadero a small coastal town about a half-an-hour drive South of Half Moon Bay on Highway 1 was a fishing village. It’s since evolved into more of a farming and ranching community with a one-block main street and has become a popular weekend tourist destination in close proximity to beaches and state parks."

We're heading into the final week of Pumpkin Season here in Half Moon Bay, and it looks like a beautiful weekend for a visit to a local pumpkin farm. Do you have your pumpkins yet?

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri #visithmb #visithalfmoonbay #visitcalifornia

Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other. Virginia Woolf

Beautiful crisp, clear evening and night for Milky Way photography at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero, CA. This is the last month to photograph the milky way in the northern hemisphere before it disappears into the sunset and blue hour until reappearing in March/April next year.

This weekend would normally be the traditional Pumpkin Festival for our town, so we have pumpkins on our minds. So many stories from the weigh off are heart-war...ming, but this photo kind of sums it all up. Here are three driven over-achievers, the kind of folks that frequent Long Branch often during the "normal times". Both new friends and old friends, they take work ethic to the next level. They care deeply about their craft and applaud victory for each other with an intense respect for what it takes to succeed in an environment where so few of the variables are within anyone's control. Kind of like now. These champions, and all of the farmers are inspiring on a level well beyond the pumpkins. We are proud to have been a part of it. See more

Throughout October 2020, guests at participating hotels on the Coastside will receive a complimentary bottle of wine from Half Moon Bay Winery, the official winery of Pumpkin Festival and a 15% discount on their first pumpkin at Arata’s Pumpkin Farm, Farmer John’s Pumpkin Farm, and Lemos Farm. See http://visithmb.org/pumpkin2020 for details.

Travis Gienger of Anoka MN is our new champion with a rhinoceros-sized mega gourd he named The Tiger King that rocked the scale at 2350 lbs, the heaviest pumpki...n weighed in North America this year! He takes home a massive smile, an unforgettable memory and a super hefty $16,450 as the 2020 Pumpkin King of Half Moon Bay! Congrats to Travis! #giantpumpkins #bigpumpkins #halfmoonbay #HMBPumpkinFest #miramarevents#gpc #safeway See more

"The 50th annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival was canceled by COVID, but you cannot explain that to a pumpkin in the business of growing 50 pounds a day on the vine." https://www.sfchronicle.com//Oh-good-gourd-Famous-Half-Moo

A parade of trucks cruising down Main Street to show off the contestants from Safeway’s 47th Annual World Champion Pumpkin Weigh Off! #HalfMoonBay #SmallTownSweets #MainStreet #HMB #Pumpkins #WorldChampion