Crystal Cove

Welcome to Crystal Cove

Peaceful coastal community with stunning blufftop views

Crystal Cove is a peaceful Newport Coast community offering coastal splendor and stunning blufftop ocean views. It also has award-winning schools, picturesque parks, and a great selection of shops and restaurants. Crystal Cove State Park runs for 3.2 miles along the gorgeous Pacific Ocean coastline, featuring an unspoiled landscape of bluffs and canyons. In addition, the state park contains a historic district with 48 cottages built during the 1920s and 1930s. Other homes in Crystal Cove include ocean view condominiums, spacious homes in gated and non-gated communities, and luxurious estates with exceptional architecture and amenities.
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What to Love

People & Lifestyle

Crystal Cove offers residents a great mix of unspoiled natural scenery and upscale shopping and dining. Its blufftop setting provides some of Newport Beach’s most spectacular views—the incomparable views take in the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island, Newport Harbor, and migrating whales. Sprawling Crystal Cove State Park is a wonderful area to explore with miles of beachfront and backcountry trails.
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Dining, Entertainment & Shopping

Several outstanding restaurants provide sweeping views over Crystal Cove’s sandy beachfront and the shimmering ocean beyond. Mastro’s Ocean Club offers sophisticated seafood dining in an elegant setting renowned for its impeccable service and ocean view. Their menu has a signature dry iced seafood tower and decadent desserts, including a must-try warm butter cake. Javier’s is a refined Mexican cantina with an ocean view patio that is perfect for sunset dinner and cocktails. The Beachcomber serves Californian cuisine and sublime breakfasts right on the beach in the Crystal Cove Historic District. Both Mastro’s and Javier’s are located within the attractive Mediterranean-style Crystal Cove Shopping Center. There are a variety of other eateries and cafés within Crystal Cove Promenade as well as stylish boutiques and other retailers. Tenants include upscale kitchenware store Williams-Sonoma and a Trader Joe’s for groceries. Crystal Cove is just 15 minutes away from Fashion Island, a world-class shopping center featuring more than 180 premium restaurants and retailers. Crystal Cove is also close to the five-star Resort at Pelican Hill. The Resort has several fine dining restaurants alongside exceptional spa services and two Tom Fazio golf courses with mesmerizing ocean views.

Things to Do

Crystal Cove State Park covers 2,400 acres with 3.2 miles of beach and a vast area of backcountry wilderness. The state park contains several distinct sandy beaches that are popular with swimmers, scuba divers, and surfers. The beaches are also great whale watching spots, and there are tide pools dotted along them. Crystal Cove State Park’s trails run for a total of 18 miles within the park’s upland area—these hillside and canyon trails are suitable for hikers, equestrians, and mountain bikers. The 12.3-acre Crystal Cove Historic District features rustic cottages comprising one of the last remaining early 20th century Southern Californian seaside colonies. In Laguna Beach, Heisler Park is a beautifully landscaped blufftop green space with walking trails, tide pools, and beautiful gardens. The Sawdust Art & Craft Festival runs every weekend during the summer and winter seasons. Held at Laguna Canyon in Laguna Beach between April and September and November to December, more than 200 artists exhibit their work at Sawdust.

Schools
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Crystal Cove is served by the Laguna Beach Unified School District.

• El Morro Elementary School, Public, K-5, Gold Ribbon Award winner
• Laguna Beach High, Public, 9-12
• Sage Hill School, Private, 9-12
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