204’s

Beautiful and secluded beach. Free parking. A stairway path leads you down from the street to the beach, which I noticed a few people using as a workout tool. If you want to just have a relaxing beach day, then this is the place.

I go to this place a lot. Not always to lay out at the beach, but to run the stairs. The beach access or beach trail access is by stairs from the above residential street up on the top of the cliff.
Running or walking the stairs is an excellent workout. I stop halfway sometimes (there are benches on both sides, so you can get out of the way of the stairs) and do some extra exercises by the benches.
Beautiful view!
A lot of people also go surfing here and usually go halfway done the stairs to check the surf out.
It has direct access to the beach trail that goes along the San Clemente coast line.
The shore is not very long, so at high tide sometimes it may be hard to lay out or you might get swept out to sea — you can’t say I didn’t wan you! haha.

This is one of the best and most hidden beaches in San Clemente! For many reasons one of them being theres FREE parking on the street above! The surf is generally pretty good here I mostly believe that it’s due to the fact that there is a small reef not to far from the beach. Keep in mind that the tide here is usually pretty high this is not the type of beach to bust out the lawn chairs at unless you wanna go swimming for them! The name 204’s some will say it comes from how many steps there are but I believe it’s deprived from the sign on the train tracks that says 204 not sure what its meaning is to the trains but the name has definitely stuck over the years. I’ve spent countless days on this beach over my years of growing up in San Clemente and every time it’s been fun I will keep coming back to this beach because of the location it’s beautiful and a great place to just chill and ease your thoughts or to catch some waves! Ride On!