image credit
Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California, USA, that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town. In the early 20th century, Fort Bragg residents threw their household garbage over the cliffs above what is now Glass Beach.
In 1967, the North Coast Water Quality Board and city leaders closed the area.
read more
Most coastal towns try to keep glass OFF their beaches. But not Fort Bragg. They’re fighting to keep theirs full of the stuff. In the morning I visited one the famed beaches (there are three) — the one that Nancy at the Sea Glass Be... Read Post
The suspect in two killings in the Fort Bragg area, on the run for four weeks, has been photographed breaking into a vacation home in the area, a Northern California newspaper reported. Read Post
For 18 years, from 1949 to 1967, residents of the Fort Bragg area in Mendocino County used the ocean as their dump, throwing their garbage, even automobiles over the cliffs towering what is now known as Glass Beach but was then call... Read Post