Famed for its charcoal-colored sand, this Instagrammable stretch of coast makes for one of the most incredible California ... black grains that wash up on the shores of the nearby Ocean Beach ...

Coming in at number two is Pa'ako Cove in Maui, Hawaii. Also known as Secret Cove, this tiny beach is hidden behind a lava ...

A departure from the usual light-colored, quartz-rich sands you find on the California coast, this small black-sand beach — formed from ancient lava-based pillow basalt — in the Golden Gate ...

Pfeiffer Beach, located in California’s Big Sur region ... Reynisfjara Beach features black sand, courtesy of eroded volcanic rocks. The juxtaposition of the black sand, the greenery that ...

The combination of black sand and blue water at this beach on Northern California's remote Lost Coast is stunning. (Getty Images) As the name suggests, this beach is famous for its black sand ...

A California beach is down a single-lane road in the Marin Headlands that visitors tend to overlook. While black sand beaches are often associated with other places, such as Iceland and Hawaii ...

This beach, located in Northern California’s Humboldt County, is different from all other black-sand beaches in that its sand was created from eroded shale cliffs rather than cooled molten lava.

The best 2025 resorts in California include these wine-country ... Maui (No.3), Waikiki Beach on Oahu (No. 5), Punalu’u Black Sand Beach on the island of Hawaii (No. 8) and Ho’okipa Beach ...

Three California beaches have ... What is the No. 1 ranked beach? The top-ranked beach is Siesta Beach in Siesta Key, Fla. "Kick back on the white sand, go swimming in the clear water, or simply ...