C Street
Cobblestone right point along the Ventura promenade south of the river mouth. South-facing exposure shaped by the same Santa Barbara Channel refraction that feeds the point at the north end. Multiple takeoff zones across the length of the point.
Spot intel
Parking
Paid lot at the end of Figueroa Street and free street parking along the promenade and the bike path. Lots fill before first light on a clean swell. Car break-ins are regular along the bike path.
Crowd
Thick. One of the most-surfed stretches in Ventura. Heavy longboard and SUP presence runs generational. The sea breeze starts after 11:00 and tightens the lineup before conditions go off.
Beginner-friendly?
Depends.
Down the line, the wave opens up and the shoulder is approachable on small days. The high-priority cobblestone wall at the top of the point is not a novice wave at any size.
Lineup etiquette
Priority on a point goes to the deepest rider. At a longboard-heavy break, priority extends further back along the shoulder than at a shortboard wave. Paddling inside an active takeoff is the standard call-out.
When it's on
Long-period west-northwest groundswell with light offshore wind from the northeast through east. South-southwest energy in summer wraps the point on the bigger pulses. Mid-tide window.
When beginners can paddle out
Knee-high to waist-high on a clean morning with light wind. Smaller-day shoulder sections sit well wide of the point's high-priority zones.
Where it breaks
- Coordinates
- 34.2720, -119.2960
- Shore faces
- SW
- Region
- Ventura, California
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Other Ventura spots
- Ventura Point · Famous + beginner-friendly