Top Five Beaches in Cabo San Lucas

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The Top Five Beaches in Cabo San Lucas:

The beauty of Baja California Sur’s nearly 1400 miles of contiguous coastline – the most by far of any Mexican state – is expressed in beaches of nearly every size and complexion; all warmed by tropical year-round sunshine, and exquisitely polished by untold eons of gently lapping Sea of Cortés waters or crashing Pacific Ocean waves.

In Los Cabos, home to many of the state’s most famous playas, these sandy coastal stretches have, through time and varied usage by generations of locals and tourists, acquired their own unique personalities.

Playa del Amor

Lover’s Beach is the secluded movie star of Los Cabos beaches, the Greta Garbo like figure who enchants with her beauty but hides much of herself from public view. Set on the half-mile Land’s End headland that marks the terminus of the nearly 800-mile long Baja California peninsula, Playa del Amor is only accessible via water-based transportation, and only during daylight hours.

Playa El Médano

Médano Beach is the Spring Break mecca in Cabo San Lucas, and Mango Deck its de facto headquarters, home to bawdy fun like banana eating and sex position contests. March marks the high water mark of the yearly collegiate madness, but Médano is busy on a year-round basis, and its charms are hardly limited to those seeking sun-soaked debauchery. Families will find plenty to do here, from building sand castles to renting kayaks, wave runners or stand up paddle boards. Romance too is in the Médano air, with barefoot fine dining at moonlit tables in the sand. The Office on The Beach throws the best weekly party, a Thursday evening Fiesta Mexicana featuring fireworks, mariachis, folkloric dancing, and piñatas and candy for the kids.

Playa Costa Azul

Zippers serves as the setting for the region’s only professional surf tournament, the World Surf League sponsored Los Cabos Open of Surf, a Qualifying Series 6000 event for women and juniors of both sexes held each June at the San José del Cabo based beach. Those of a less active temperament will find Costa Azul’s long smooth shore and picturesque scenery perfect for romantic barefoot walks along the waterline; and the beach’s highly regarded cantina, also called Zipper’s, serves the best BBQ ribs in the state.

Playa Chileno

In recent years new hotel and residential developments have appeared near Playas Chileno and Santa María, but despite the loss of a certain amount of privacy, both retain their immaculate beauty and pristine grandeur.

Playa Palmilla

Into the early 1960s – years after the son of a former Mexican president had built Los Cabos’ first modern resort there – Punta Palmilla was still being used as a staging ground for cattle shipment, with animals loaded aboard offshore transports the old-fashioned way: by being tied to the sides of pangas (small skiffs) and rowed out beyond the breakwater, where nooses were looped around their horns and they were hoisted from the briny blue.

The beach which this lodging overlooks remains open to the public, as all Mexican beaches must by law, and thus proffers her unblemished charms to both fishermen and financiers, housekeepers and Hollywood royalty. Her protected cove is so naturally suited to water-based pursuits that the swim leg of the annual Ironman Los Cabos triathlon is contested there.