Andrew Molera State Park (Big Sur River mouth beach)
California
The largest state park on the Big Sur coast and the only one with a genuinely wild river-mouth beach — a flat two-mile walk from the parking lot down the Big Sur River to where it meets the ocean at Cooper Point, with almost none of the crowd-pressure of the more famous stops nearby.
Why Roamward picked it
Fills a real gap — Pfeiffer Beach is already featured, but Andrew Molera is a totally different experience (flat river-mouth walk vs. purple-sand cove) 20 miles south of Carmel. Good family/dog-friendly counterpoint stop with none of Pfeiffer Beach's narrow-road bottleneck.
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