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Moonstone Beach, Trinidad CA
County park agates
Agate beach or gravel, tidal Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Agates and jasperAlso reported: black-sand concentrates at creek mouths.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Humboldt County park beach at the Little River mouth, the legal alternative to Sue-meg for north coast agates
Documented in Humboldt rockhounding guides and beach directories as an agate and moonstone-chalcedony producer
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Sneaker wavesCold water, river-mouth currents
check tide tables before rounding rocks
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.