It is located 12 miles (19 km) south of Half Moon Bay off California State Route 1.

[1] This coastal strip lies between Pescadero and San Gregorio State Beaches.

It is made up of several miles of sloping, sandy beaches and a small lagoon below high sandstone bluffs.

[1] The beach was named after José Pomponio Lupugeym, a Bolinas Native American and outlaw.

[2] He was a captain of a group that called itself Los Insurgentes, and was captured and executed in 1824.