Malibu Public Beaches
Summer 2007 - present

Tired of Zuma and Surfrider? Want to find and use the other beaches in Malibu--The twenty miles that are lined with private development? These safaris show you how to find, park, walk, picnic, and sunbathe on a Malibu beach legally and safely. Each safari visits two different beaches. Skills-enhancing activities include sign watching, trailblazing the public-private boundary, a no-kill hunt for accessways, and a public easement potluck.

The Urban Rangers would like to thank the Annenberg Foundation and the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design for their generous support of this project. We are also grateful to the following exhibitions for including representation of our Malibu Public Beaches project: Experimental Geography at various venues (Sept. 2008-Jan. 2011), Actions: What You Can Do With the City at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Nov. 2008-April 2009), Alternative Places at LAX's Tom Bradley Int'l Terminal (August-Oct. 2008), Sustaining LA by KCET (Jan. 2008), and Just Spaces at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Sept.-Nov. 2007).

Download our Malibu Public Beaches guide...
An easy-to-use resource for understanding the beaches and accessways. (PDF: 471KB)

Download our Malibu Beaches Owners Manual...
An article by Jenny Price, reprinted from LA Observed. (PDF: 368KB)