Upper Beach

Upper Beach is a beach in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. Upper Beach is situated nearby to the hamlet Portuguese Bend, as well as near the town Rancho Palos Verdes.

Photo: n4rwhals, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wayfarers Chapel and Abalone Cove Ecological Reserve.

Wayfarers Chapel

Photo: Gyrofrog, CC SA 1.0.

Wayfarers Chapel, or "The Glass Church", is a disassembled chapel designed by Lloyd Wright and originally located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The chapel had unique organic architecture sited on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean.

Abalone Cove Ecological Reserve

Nature reserve

Photo: Jim Helvey, CC BY 3.0.

Abalone Cove Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve.

Del Cerro Park

Park

Del Cerro Park is a public park located in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California. The park is situated high atop a bluff at the southernmost end of Crenshaw Boulevard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills.

Rancho Palos Verdes

Town

Photo: Cardinalngold, Public domain.

Rancho Palos Verdes is an affluent coastal city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated on September 7, 1973, the city has a population of 42,287 as reported in the 2020 United States census.

Rolling Hills

Suburb

Photo: Mary DeNeale Morgan, Public domain.

Rolling Hills is a city on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Rolling Hills is a gated community with private roads with three entry gates. Rolling Hills is situated 2½ miles northeast of Upper Beach.

Rolling Hills Estates

Suburb

Photo: Clotee Allochuku, CC BY 2.0.

Rolling Hills Estates is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. On the northern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, facing Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates is mostly residential. Rolling Hills Estates is situated 3½ miles north of Upper Beach.

Upper Beach

Type: Beach
Category: landform
Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.74168° or 33° 44′ 30″ north

Longitude

-118.37896° or 118° 22′ 44″ west

Elevation

13 feet (4 metres)

Open location code

8553PJRC+MC

GeoNames ID

5404943

Wikidata ID

Q49325101

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Upper Beach” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Upper Beach (lapyahan sa Estados Unidos, California)”
Cebuano: “Upper Beach”

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Localities in the Area

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