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Marin County

Stinson Beach

Stinson Beach is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , on the west coast of the United States. Stinson Beach is located east-southeast of , right across the channel that terminates the bay mouth bar of the . at an elevation of 26 feet.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 632 residents
  • Description: census designated place in Marin County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Stinson Beach, CA” and “Stinson Beach, California”
  • Postal code: 94970

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mountain Theater and Kent Island.

Theater building
Photo: Richard Wood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheater, also known as the Cushing Memorial Amphitheater or simply the , is a 4,000-seat open-air venue in , in , United States. is situated 2 miles northeast of Stinson Beach.

Islet
Photo: Stepheng3, Public domain.
is a small island in . In 1964, it was proposed for large-scale development including a hotel and marina, but the plan was defeated in 1967. The island is now included in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

Islet
is a rock formation and a small rocky island in , in the U.S. state of . It lies in the Pacific Ocean just offshore of the . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Stinson Beach.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolinas.

Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an unincorporated town in , . It has long been a counterculture enclave and has, in the past, been the home of several famous people such as musicians Grace Slick and Paul Kantner, and writer Richard Brautigan.

Stinson Beach

Latitude
37.9008° or 37° 54′ 3″ north
Longitude
-122.6451° or 122° 38′ 42″ west
Population
632
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Open location code
849VW923+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150960330
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5398988
Wiki­data ID
Q594225
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Stinson Beach” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Stinson Beach”
  • Bulgarian: “Стинсън Бийч”
  • Catalan: “Stinson Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Stinson Beach”
  • Chechen: “Стинсон-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Stinson Beach”
  • Chinese: “斯廷森比奇”
  • Croatian: “Stinson Beach”
  • Czech: “Stinson Beach”
  • Dutch: “Stinson Beach”
  • French: “Stinson Beach”
  • German: “Stinson Beach”
  • Gilaki: “استينسن بیچ”
  • Irish: “Stinson Beach”
  • Italian: “Stinson Beach”
  • Ladin: “Stinson Beach”
  • Malagasy: “Stinson Beach, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Stinson Beach”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Stinson Beach”
  • Newari: “स्टिन्सन बीच (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “स्टिन्सन बीच, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “स्टिन्सन बीच”
  • Persian: “استینسون بیچ، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “استینسون بیچ”
  • Polish: “Stinson Beach”
  • Portuguese: “Stinson Beach”
  • Romanian: “Stinson Beach, California”
  • Romanian: “Stinson Beach”
  • Serbian: “Стинсон Вич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stinson Beach, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stinson Beach”
  • Slovak: “Stinson Beach”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استینسون بیچ، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Stinson Beach (California)”
  • Spanish: “Stinson Beach”
  • Tatar: “Стинсон-Бич”
  • Turkish: “Stinson Beach”
  • Ukrainian: “Стінсон-Біч”
  • Volapük: “Stinson Beach”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stinson Beach”. Photo: Mark Doliner, CC BY 2.0.