Noyo Headlands Park

Featuring a magnificent coastal trail, this park is ideal for hikers, bikers, strollers, roller bladers, and dogs alike! Open to the public, the Noyo Headlands Park features some incredible wildlife viewing opportunities you won’t want to miss. Bragg’s newest park is situated atop the bluffs overlooking Fort Bragg’s dramatic, rocky Pacific shore. Its northern section was opened in 2015, extending the Pacific Coast Trail from Pudding Creek at the northern end of town down to Otsuchi Point. It includes a stairway down the bluffs to Glass Beach.

In 2016, the southern section of the park was opened. It comprises 2.3 miles of trails stretching from Noyo Harbor to the Crow’s Nest, the charming visitors center (replete with touch tank aquarium) for the Noyo Center for Marine Science. City officials expect to complete the center section of about 1.3 miles of trail connecting the northern and southern sections by November 2017. With the addition of the central portion, the park will total about 106 acres, and the Pacific Coast Trail will run without interruption all the way through Fort Bragg, connecting north of town across the Pudding Creek Trestle to MacKerricher Park and south across the Noyo River Bridge to Pomo Bluffs Park: all together a distance of 7.5 miles.

The trail provides the first public access to Fort Bragg’s rocky coast since the 1800s. Views are spectacular, and Noyo Headlands Park has already gained the enviable reputation of being one of the best places anywhere to view stunning sunsets.

The park was reclaimed from an industrial mill site owned by Georgia-Pacific. Much of the site was covered with asphalt, which was removed, and the entire area was restored to its natural state. The project has cost millions of dollars, provided largely by Prop. 84 funds and the California Coastal Conservancy.

Wander Along the Noyo Headlands Park Fort Bragg Coastal Trail
When you travel to the Noyo Headlands Park, you will have the opportunity to hike along the beautiful Fort Bragg Coastal Trail. Surrounded by open fields and headlands, the 8-foot-wide paved trail is the focal point of the park. Hikers will journey along rugged clifftops and pass the spectacular Glass Beach in the MacKerricher State Park. Continuing south, you’ll venture past the Dynamite Shack and out to the new dog park. An immaculate stretch of coastline is open for exploring from dawn until dusk, among other secret nooks you will love!

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
Noyo Headlands Park is located at the foot of Cypress Street (south end) and the foot of Elm Street (north end) in Fort Bragg, California 95437 in Mendocino County.
The ADA accessible Noyo Headlands Park Trail is part of the California Coastal Trail and as you walk, jog, or bike along the trail, you’ll see compasses in the pavement marking the location.
The eight foot wide Fort Bragg Coastal Trail follows the rugged cliffs from just north of Pomo Bluffs Park all the way to the Pudding Creek Trestle and MacKerricher State Park, past all three Glass Beaches and several sea arches.
Open dawn to dusk with free parking and free access.
Dogs must be on leash and cleaned up after, and they must stay on the trail. An off-leash dog park is nearby.
At this 92 acre park, there are amazing panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean, the rocky northern California coastline, and Noyo Harbor, over seven miles of hiking/biking trails with benches along the main paved trail, picnic tables, vault restrooms, and interpretive displays.
There is access to Glass Beach down a short stairway at the north end of the Noyo Headlands Coastal Trail at Elm Street.

WHERE: Access to the park is via Elm Street at the north end, and Cypress Street at the south. Parking and admission are free, and the park is open 24 hours a day.