Originally Posted by
User1
Talking to a traveling biker one time, we got on the topic of the book Bicycling The Pacific Coast by Tom Kirkendall. He mentioned that the first version of the book was a good resource cause it shows some of the B&H sites that are no longer around (closed). I just saw that the book is going for $4 w/shipping at Amazon (for refer).
Anyone have any knowledge or checked out some of the closed spots?
I would think that it would make a poor resource if you're counting on a HB spot that's no longer there, as was the poor guy that rode 105 miles in 105F heat. The HB sites at San Onofre, San Clemente, and South Carlsbad State Beaches have been eliminated, and IMO for very little cause. I guess they had too many transients squatting there permanently night after night--I witnessed this myself at San Clemente--and were afraid of lawsuits from homeless rights groups if they tried to get them to leave. So they just took the lazy bureaucratic way out by closing the sites instead of trying to fix the issue.