Main St. and Ocean Ave., Huntington Beach, California. County/parish: Orange.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 24, 1989. NRIS 89001203.
3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.
The Huntington Beach Pier is a municipal pier located in Huntington Beach, California, at the west end of Main Street and west of Pacific Coast Highway. At 1,850 ft (560 m) in length, it is one of the longest public piers on the West Coast of the United States. (The Oceanside Pier at 1,942 ft (592 m) is the longest.) The deck of the pier is 30 ft (9.1 m) above sea level, while the top of the restaurant structure at the end of the pier is 77 ft (23 m).
The Huntington Beach Pier is on the California Register of Historical Resources. It is one of 123 historic places and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, California (Ref. No. 89001203).
One of the main landmarks of Huntington Beach, also known as "Surf City, USA", the pier is the center of the city's prominent beach culture. A popular meeting place for surfers, the ocean waves here are enhanced by a natural effect caused by the edge-diffraction of open-ocean swells around Catalina Island, creating consistent surf year-round.
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