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Santa Monica: Getty Villa, Surfrider Beach, Point Dume
Santa Monica, California, US · 5 stops · 23.8 mi (38 km) · about 48 min driving · 10 spoken stories
Perfect for art and beach lovers heading north along the Pacific Coast Highway. You'll drive 24 miles from Santa Monica Pier to Point Dume, taking in a Roman-villa museum, the birthplace of California surf culture, and dramatic coastal cliffs—all in under an hour.
Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From Santa Monica Pier to Point Dume State Beach, Malibu
The stops
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Getty Villa
The Getty Villa is an educational center and an art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. One of two campuses of the J.
“Here we are at the Getty Villa, tucked into the hillside at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in Pacific Palisades.”
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Malibu Lagoon State Beach (Surfrider Beach)
Malibu Lagoon State Beach in Malibu, California, United States, is also known as Surfrider Beach. It was dedicated as the first World Surfing Reserve on October 9, 2010. The 110-acre (45 ha) site was established as a California state park in 1951. It lies within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
“This is Malibu Lagoon State Beach, though every surfer on earth knows it as Surfrider Beach.”
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Malibu Pier
lunchThe Malibu Pier is a pier located in Malibu, California. It was constructed in 1905.
“Malibu Pier has been standing out over this water since nineteen oh five, which makes it older than just about everything around it.”
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Paradise Cove Beach Cafe
Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo's Nest is a memoir written between 1975 and 1977 by George T. Nagel, the name used by Rabbi Yechezkel Taub (1895–1986), the third Yabloner Rebbe. The manuscript remained unpublished for nearly fifty years until it was located and edited by Rabbi Pini Dunner in the mid-2020s.
“Paradise Cove is our lunch stop, and it earns the name.”
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Point Dume State Beach
Point Dume is a promontory on the coast of Malibu, California, that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The point, a long bluff, forms the northern end of Santa Monica Bay. Point Dume Natural Area affords a vista of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Santa Catalina Island. Zuma Beach lies to its immediate northwest.
“Point Dume is the big one.”
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