With summer officially starting this weekend, the Central Coast's youngest explorers took to the sand on Saturday to soak up some sun and learn about nature.

“This reprieve for endangered wildlife and coastal dunes habitat will ... roar of motorcycles, jeeps, sand rails and all-terrain vehicles. The battle over Oceano began in 1982, after the Coastal ...

Out of 278 California state parks, Oceano Dunes is the ninth most popular. Its uses include fishing, horse riding, kite boarding, and hiking...but, primarily sand duning! Oceano Dunes became a ...

build bonfires in the sand, and gun their engines in the only state park in California that allows motor vehicles on the beach and dunes. And for nearly as long, the surfside playground of Oceano ...

By 2023, no OHVs will be allowed at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area following a historic vote by the Coastal Commission on March 18. Windblown sand is seen during a tour of Oceano ...

“The sand dunes are in constant motion. They got covered up or and sometimes people just knocked them down for bonfires.” Visitors love to drive all-terrain vehicles on the miles of open beach at ...

"The sand dunes migrate over time so a couple of ... so he came back to the United States and happened upon the Oceano Dunes. Heard that there were hermits living out there and eventually he ...

Shaped by the Central California coastal winds is the vast sandbox known as the Oceano Dunes. Trudging up the 200-foot sand piles can be daunting, but if you have a sandboard, you can cover a lot ...

Before ATVs ruled the Oceano Dunes, the sandy expanse was empty — or at least, it appeared to be. Tucked amid the sand dunes were people: a living, breathing community known as the Dunites.

Dust from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicle Recreation Area has been putting the health of people living on the Nipomo Mesa in Central California at risk, and California State Parks has not enforced ...

who helped keep Oceano Dunes near Pismo Beach open to all, and whose knowledge of sand driving was sought out by both neighbors and NASA, passed away at 97. Tallman-Duceshi raced a purple dune ...