California State Parks welcomes the National Surf League to San Onofre State Beach and Upper Trestles for the High School Cup National Championships!

•    San Onofre and Trestles are the most popular year-round surfing beaches in California and the nation.  Three to four hundred thousand surfers hike or bike into the one and a half mile stretch of beach known as Trestles yearly.  More than two million campers, surfers and sunbathers pack the remainder of San Onofre Surf Beach and Bluff’s beaches.  Twelve million people live within a two-hour drive of San Onofre.  If they own a surfboard, they’ve been to “Sano”!

•    State Parks needs your help in raising awareness that San Onofre is a “World Treasure” that must never be compromised.  A new alliance of those who respect the value of this treasure is “The San Onofre Foundation”.

•    The San Onofre Foundation seeks to directly enhance the quality of your recreational experience at these unique coastal parks.  A goal of the Foundation will be the construction of a safe railroad underpass on the Lower Trestles trail and an environmentally friendly raised boardwalk above the marsh.  Get ready to help!

•    The SANO Foundation is a partner to California State Parks in protecting the integrity of your parklands at San Onofre. 

•    The San Onofre Foundation website is live.  If you want to find out how you can support San Onofre and Trestles visit the website at www.sanofoundation.org

•    Visitors to Upper Trestles and the NSL Championships: Please do not walk on the railroad tracks, the trains are quiet and do not always blow their whistles and may be traveling up to 70 miles per hour.

•    If you walk the trails, beware of poison oak.  It borders all of the Trestles trails.

•    Please adhere to the 5 MPH speed limit in the parking lot.  There is a high volume of pedestrian and bicycle traffic sharing the pavement.

•    There are lifeguards stationed at either end of the event site if you require first aid, a lost child or other assistance.

•    Please look around you before you leave Upper Trestles.  Trash left behind may look harmless, but to marine life and birds it can cause serious harm if they swallow it or become entangled in it.  Plastic and Styrofoam are especially dangerous because they never biodegrade!  They stay in our ecosystem forever.

•    California State Parks asks you to help keep Trestles clean and marine life safe by leaving the beach cleaner than you found it!

•    The Trestles Wetlands Natural Preserve provides food and shelter for thousands of plants and animals.  Wetlands act as a natural water filter to protect our ocean from runoff toxins; making San Onofre State Beach one of the cleanest beaches in Southern California.  Thank you for helping us protect this natural wetland by not walking through it!

•    Did you know? in the waters between here and Hawaii that plastic has been found to outweigh plankton more than 6 to 1?  California State Parks is proud to be involved with the Adopt-A-Beach program.  When an organized group “adopts” a beach, they commit to cleaning it at least three times per year.  School groups involved in the program can perform a single clean-up.  Groups are encouraged to sign up year after year.  San Onofre State Beach, including Trestles is available for adoption.  To find out more about this program, please visit the California Coastal Commission at: www.coastal.ca.gov  or the State Parks website: www.parks.ca.gov 

•    Are you confused on where to find the recycle trash bins?  Look no further than the nearest trash can.  All waste that you throw out will be transported to a separate facility for sorting.  At least half of all of the trash will be recycled.  We’ll do our part by recycling, but we also ask you to reduce and reuse your waste wherever you go.