Huntington Beach Pier is
located at the intersection of Pacific Coast
Highway and Main Street in the bustling
downtown shopping and
dining region of Huntington Beach. For
mapping purposes, use 315 Pacific Coast Highway.
Call: 714-536-528. See
photo of the original first-ever
Huntington Beach Pier from 1904!
The Huntington
Beach Pier is open daily from 5 a.m. to
Midnight. The most visited landmark at
Huntington City Beach, the pier has been a
fixture in the City of
Huntington Beach for over 100 years since the
community changed its name to Huntington Beach
in 1904. As the focal point of the beach
experience, the pier logo is seen on T-shirt
designs and in thousands of photos tourists and
locals take and send to their family and
friends. It is here that you can stroll, watch
surfers, shop, dine, fish, kiss and snuggle up,
learn to throw a yoyo trick and use the public
restroom facilities that include wheelchair
accessible rooms.
The Huntington Beach Pier
stretches 1,853 feet into the Pacific Ocean and
includes Tower Zero, the state-of-the-art
lifeguard tower where the world's best
conditioned and trained lifeguards watch over
Huntington City Beach to keep it safe. Stop by
Tower Zero, midway down the pier to find water
temperatures, wave conditions and any other
information posted on a regular basis for
guests.
Shopping on the pier
includes Kite Connection, Surf City Store and
Let's Go Fishin', a bait and tackle shop where
you can rent rods and reels for free pier
fishing. (All piers in California permit fishing
for free.) The pier includes sink basins for
cleaning your catch.
Dining at Ruby's Surf
City Diner,
a 40's & 50's style red and white restaurant with two
story dining and forever views features shakes,
hamburgers, French fries, onion rings, salads,
sandwiches and all the great foods guests enjoy
at reasonable prices. Also try the fresh fish,
salads, dinners and sandwiches at
Duke's Huntington Beach.
Scenic views from the
Huntington Beach Pier include Catalina Island,
22 miles offshore, Long Beach and San Pedro's
Port of Los Angeles and Newport Beach piers.
Several pay scopes are available. For $0.25 you
can look through the scope and see details in
distant scenes. It's a lot of fun. There are
numerous benches to sit and watch the ocean and
sunset. Don't hesitate to sit down and relax to
enjoy the beautiful Pacific Ocean.
Events on the
Huntington Beach Pier include the annual Huck
Finn Fishing Derby sponsored by the City of
Huntington Beach. Children 15 years and younger
are invited to don their best Huck Finn or Becky
Thatcher costumes from the Mark Twain fiction
novels and compete for prizes for best costume
and largest fish. The event is usually held on a
Saturday in August.
Also held on the Huntington
Beach Pier is Duck-A-Thon, an annual event in
which rubber ducks are sold to individuals and
then dumped from a huge truck off the pier.
Each person purchasing a duck assigns a name to
their contest entrant. The rubber ducks float
ashore with the early arrivals winning prizes.
The Duck-A-Thon is usually held the second or
third week in May.
Parking is available
near the foot of the Huntington Beach Pier at
City of Huntington Beach operated parking lots.
See the
Huntington Beach
Pier Gallery