Known as The Village by the Sea, Carlsbad has beautiful sandy beaches, three unique lagoons, two luxurious resorts, outstanding shopping and world class sporting events. Carlsbad, California, is located in North County San Diego.
The North County beach communities include Solana Beach, Encinitas, Cardiff By The Sea and Carlsbad. Each community is offers magnificent ocean views and cooling sea breezes.
Batiquitos Lagoon is a coastal wetland north of San Diego between the cities of Carlsbad and Encinitas. It is one of the few remaining tidal wetlands on the southern California coast of the United States. The area is run by the California Department of Fish and Game as a nature reserve.
Carlsbad has some of the finest beaches in the world. South Ponto Beach stretches from La Costa Avenue to Palomar Airport Road and includes a 220 ocean-view camping sites – you’re strongly advised to make your reservations well in advance. South Ponto offers restrooms complete with clean showers. The beach is wide and sandy. It’s the perfect beach for romantic sunset strolls and just plain people watching.
The Flower Fields are famous for their beauty. Tour them from March to early May where for a small fee you can walk through acres and acres of brightly colored fields of flowers on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It’s a sight to behold. At the Flower Fields, Giant Tecolote Ranunculus have been refined for generations to produce exceptionally large blooms and lots of them. Available in a rainbow of lavish hues, each flower is packed with hundreds of silky petals. You’d be hard pressed to find a fuller, more lush blossom anywhere.
There are dozens of lodging choices in Carlsbad. You can find Carlsbad Inn, Carlsbad Marriott, Carlsbad Hyatt and the Tamarack Beach Hotel, plus some funky Carlsbad Bed and Breakfasts.
If you’re looking for luxury, the Four Seasons Aviara Resort is a 225 acre Spanish-style luxury resort placed on a bluff carpeted with wildflowers overlooking the Batiquitos Lagoon. Its Arnold Palmer-signature golf course is impeccably designed and laid out around the natural rolling hills of the resort. The Aviara golf course features water traps that are actually part of Batiquitos lagoon. You will find that the clubhouse offers every amenity that serious golfers enjoy and occasional duffers feel pampered by.
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Terry Hunefeld retired from a CEO career in several years ago to sail the ocean observing seabirds and marine mammals. He and his wife Ann Dunham purchased a romantic Bed and Breakfast Inn on the Pacific Ocean of San Diego. If you are looking for encinitas ca hotels or Solana Beach hotels be sure to check out the Inn at Moonlight Beach.
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