Huntington Beach Municipal Pier

Huntington Beach Municipal Pier is a 1,850-foot concrete pier at the west end of Main Street, its deck 30 feet above the Pacific on thick round pilings. It slopes gently seaward through three octagonal platforms to a rotated square diamond at the end, where a white two-story building with a brown hipped roof stands. Gray metal railings and dark lampposts with white globe lights line the deck.

A wooden pier was built at the end of Main Street in 1904; a 1910 storm plunged much of it into the Pacific. A $70,000 bond approved in 1911 funded a concrete pier of 1,350 feet, re-dedicated in 1914 with a surfing demonstration by George Freeth. Storms in 1983 and January 1988 destroyed the pier and the End Cafe; the rebuilt 1,856-foot pier was re-dedicated on 18 July 1992.

The pier is easily accessible from Huntington Beach's main shoreline and can be reached on foot from nearby parking areas. Visitors should come prepared for ocean conditions and varying weather throughout the day.

The pier's surf is shaped by edge-diffraction of open-ocean swells around Catalina Island, producing consistent waves year-round. The 1992 rebuild left wider gaps between piles at the City's request, so surfers can pass beneath the deck. The structure is engineered to withstand 31-foot waves or a magnitude 7.0 earthquake.