The activities have been temporarily banished from Oceano Dunes, sparking anxiety among local business owners.

California State Parks has been tasked with finding a way to make a naturally dusty area — Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area — less dusty. Now, recent data collected from last year — when ...

The California Coastal Commission has voted to phase out off-road vehicle use at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area within the next three years. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The ...

Oceano Dunes in San Luis Obispo County, the only California state park allowing beach driving, has been closed to vehicles and camping since April 14 under a federal court order to better protect the ...

Off-roaders like Serra Dellavalle travel hundreds of miles to visit the Oceano Dunes. “It’s a beautiful view,” described Dellavalle, who traveled from Buena Park in northern Orange County. “It feels ...

Meanwhile, harmful particulate matter continues to drift across the Nipomo Mesa from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area at levels that violate the state’s own air quality standards, put ...

Makayla Richardson is your community news reporter covering southern San Luis Obispo County, including Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Oceano, Arroyo Grande, and Nipomo. An environmental group ...

Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area has been closed to camping for more than a month, frustrating would-be visitors and forcing California State Parks to cancel hundreds of reservations. The ...

Now prohibited at the Oceano Dunes are beach grooming and grading within fenced restoration, habitat enclosures or other protected areas or below the mean high tide line. Any such activity may be ...

The nonprofit organization fighting to keep the Oceano Dunes fully open to off-road riding beyond 2024 has been aggressively raising money to sustain several lawsuits against the state. One of Friends ...

The California Department of Parks and Recreation has known for decades that off-road vehicle activity at its park on the Oceano Dunes contributes to a plume of dust that’s a health risk to downwind ...

Supporters say the decision was long-awaited and will benefit the sensitive dune ecosystem. But critics say that the decision will disrupt decades-old family traditions of visiting the Oceano Dunes ...