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Please join us as we kick off our celebration! Starting with a Chumash blessing, featured speakers will talk about the significance of McGrath State Beach and the effort to save the park.

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There are many different kinds of animals that call McGrath home. You can find tracks and traces of many of them, and begin to understand their story. This is an easy walk over even ground.

Watch our lifeguards spring into action, partnering with the harbor patrol to demonstrate a “save” of an ocean-goer in trouble.

Join us for a delicious tri-tip barbecue.  Bring your family and meet your camping neighbors.  Tickets for the barbecue can be pre-purchased online or at the park, starting 6/30.

Learn how native craftsmen in the pre-industrial age tended, harvested, and shaped special tools called rabbit sticks, which were then used for hunting rabbits and other small game.Try your hand at rabbit stick throwing, and try some rabbit meat for yourself.

Aimed at kids age 7-12, these activities help park visitors connect with nature and have fun!

John Lacques from Drumtime will lead a facilitated drum circle.  His philosophy is that drumming is “a very direct and powerful way to connect mind, body and spirit, invigorating a person with their own life force.  And anyone can do it!”

Victoria Borjesson has a thing for photographing sunsets.  Notoriously tricky to photograph, sunsets are also rewarding, once you know the basic tricks for capturing them.  Learn how to utilize your camera in this pursuit.

Close the celebration by joining together in the campfire center.  We will be screening “The First 70,” which is “a journey through California to visit the 70 majestic state parks slated to close, and meet the people who treasure them.”