Best Fishing Pier Downey Near Me

4worldlovers: Seal Beach is the main focal point of this community in northern Orange County. Surfers ride waves next to the pier and locals and tourists alike walk its wooden planks to wonderful views. There used to be a restaurant at the end but it closed in 2013.

Seal Beach Pier was built early in the last century has had some setbacks over its history. Two times it has been rebuilt after storms damaged the pier in the 1930s and again again in the 1980s. More recently in 2016 there was a major fire in the closed Ruby’s Diner Restaurant at the end of the pier. Luckily most the wooden pier was saved from the flames. It re-opened after just one month but the end of the pier required significant repairs.

Seal Beach Pier is one of the longest wooden piers in the state of California. It juts out 1865 feet (568 meters) into the Pacific Ocean from the center of Seal Beach.

Seal Beach, and its picturesque pier, are located in the city of Seal Beach, a small beachside community wedged...

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Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier is a popular site for fishing and strolling. Sport Fishing can be accessed at the end of the pier, as well as a snack stand and bait shop.


The pier is undergoing a renovation beginning with under pier structural repairs this spring. Pier surface work and parking lot rebuilding is scheduled for the fall so that visitors may enjoy the facility during the summer.

The original Belmont Pier was built at approximately 39th Place in 1915 at a location know as "Devil's Gate" for an off shore rock below the bluff. In 1967 the new concrete Pier opened, east of the old wooden pier, which remained until after construction. The Belmont Plaza Pier area includes the plaza connecting the pier to 39th Place. The Pier is 1,800 feet long and 24 feet wide, with an enlarged hexagonal area at the seaward end, and two wings extending 120 feet east and west. A structure at the end of the pier housed a snack bar on the ground floor and lifeguard offices and restaurant on the second floor. Second story uses were discontinued in the 1980's.

Efforts to enliven and restore the pier have been discussed since the Local Coastal Program in 1980 provided development incentives along 39th Place. This lead to the development of a restaurant adjacent to the Pier Plaza in the 1980's with part of Pier Plaza used for outdoor dining. In the 1990's, Parks, Recreation and Marine, with funding from the Los Angeles County Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond Act of 1992, developed a renovation plan that included replacing the building at the end with a three story restaurant, repairing lighting and plumbing systems, repaving the pier deck, expanding the parking lot and rerouting the beach bicycle path over instead of behind the pier. Lighting and plumbing systems were repaired, the parking lot expanded and bicycle route relocated by 2005. The plaza deck was repaved and planter areas doubled in 2008. Other ideas, such as a carousel were investigated, but not included in the plan.

In 2000, Long Beach Transit proposed the construction of a stop at Belmont Pier for the Aqua-link water taxi that runs from Rainbow Harbor and the Queen Mary to Alamitos Bay. This was combined with a program to restore the storm damaged fishing boat landing in 2005. The City Council authorized construction to begin in February 2009.

In 2001, the pier was renamed Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier to honor Long Beach area veterans. In 2002 a memorial was designed on the pier's west wing with flags for all military branches, and an obelisk with the military oath. Medallions along the pier deck would honor individual veterans while benches would commemorate significant battles. The design was not implemented as the Coastal Commission could not permit the obelisk in the water and the pier could not structurally support the poles and flags. Some benches and medallions have been installed as of 2009.

In 2004, the concessionaire Beach Ventures, Inc. was selected to run the pier's commercial operations. They added a welcome kiosk, additional recreational equipment rentals and 8 out of 45 planned new mooring buoys for visiting vessels. Future plans call for the renovation of the building at the pier's end as a restaurant.