[aggregation-styles] KMPH Fox 26 News In March, the California Coastal Commission voted to phase-out off-highway vehicle use at the Oceano Dunes over the next three years. Thursday, a nonprofit called Friends of Oceano Dunes filed a lawsuit against the CCC over that decision. This is the second lawsuit the group...
Pro-OHV Riders Gather To Protest Potential Closure of Oceano Dunes To Vehicles
[aggregation-styles] KSBY Television Community members are demanding to keep off-highway vehicle use at the Oceano Dunes in the future. Friends of Oceano Dunes, a non-profit that supports the use of OHV's at the state park, organized the protest Sunday afternoon. The protest comes as the California Coastal Commission is set...
Oceano Dunes Will Reopen to Off Road Use, Camping Starting Friday
California State Parks announced a reopening of campgrounds including a limited number of sites within Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area and Pismo State Beach beginning Friday. The agency is limiting the daily allowed number of “street legal” vehicles to 1,000 per day and “Green Sticker” OHV to 1,000 per...
Oceano Dunes Off-Roaders Notch Court Victory in Long Running Feud With Regulators
The Sacramento County Superior Court ordered the California Air Resources Board to release more than 40 documents it had refused to provide in response to a 'Friends of Oceano Dunes' Public Records Act request made in 2019. The 'Friends of Oceano Dunes' is a non-profit corporation created to preserve camping and...
‘Bizarro Beach’ or State Park? Living Next to Off-Roading Mecca Oceano Dunes
Dave Congalton always turns right at the beach. The local radio host, who has lived near Oceano Dunes for 33 years, leads an informal group of hikers and beach walkers. His pack usually heads north, away from the tumult of off-road vehicles that descend on the state park. One morning...
A 40-Year Conflict Over Oceano Dunes: Has It Finally Reached a Breaking Point?
At the end of an arcing sweep of shoreline tracing the pocket coves and steep cliffs of the Central Coast lies Oceano Dunes and its rippling sea of sand. The park south of San Luis Obispo is the last state beach where visitors can legally race their 4X4s, dirt bikes...
Environmental Group Holds Rally To Keep Vehicles off Oceano Dunes SVRA
[aggregation-styles] KSBY News Controversy over the Oceano Dunes continued Thursday with a rally for environmental concerns on bringing vehicles back. Organizers of the Dunes Alliance and Oceano Beach Community Association rallied at the Oceano Dunes Thursday evening, expressing their concerns over vehicles returning to the beach. For the past 217...
Commission Keeps Oceano Dunes Open to Off-Roaders For Now
Oceano Dunes on California’s central coast will remain open to off-road vehicles for at least another year. After several hours of often emotional testimony, the California Coastal Commission voted to reject staff recommendations to phase out off-roading at the state recreational area. Instead, commissioners gave the California Department of Parks...