Glass Beach, Natural coastal area in Fort Bragg, California, United States.

Glass Beach is a shoreline section in Fort Bragg, northern California, where rounded glass pieces mix with coarse sand and pebbles. The colored fragments sit above the normal tide line alongside driftwood and shell debris along the rocky waterfront.

The town used this spot as a public dump from 1906 until 1967, when new environmental rules banned coastal waste disposal. After closure, cleanup efforts removed the largest debris and left the remaining glass pieces to the waves.

The shoreline draws photographers and collectors who watch how nature transforms discarded bottles and containers over time. The smooth colored pieces form as saltwater and waves shape the abandoned material left behind by earlier people.

Sites Two and Three lie at the end of a path starting at the corner of Elm Street and Glass Beach Drive, reached on foot and by a short climb down the surrounding cliffs. Site One, a quarter mile (400 meters) south, became reachable on foot in January 2015 with the opening of the northern section of Fort Bragg's Coastal Trail. Rangers on the state park section ask visitors to leave the remaining glass in place.

Though the shore once held thousands of colored glass pieces, visitor collecting has reduced the amount noticeably over the years. Some areas now show more regular gravel than glass, as waves continue to bring up new material from the seabed.