Point Dume is a promontory on the coast of Malibu, California that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The point, a long bluff, forms the northern end of the Santa Monica Bay. Point Dume Natural Area affords a vista of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Santa Catalina Island. Zuma Beach lies to its immediate northwest.
Point Dume
cliff at Point Dume State Beach, captured on 13 April, 2023 by California and Texas photographer Cecily Breeding
Point Dume viewed from the northwest on Zuma Beach.
View north from the bluffs at Point Dume State Beach, California
Malibu is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Downtown Los Angeles. It is known for its Mediterranean climate, its strip of beaches stretching 21 miles along the Pacific Ocean coast, and for its longtime status as the home of numerous affluent Hollywood celebrities and executives. Although a high proportion of its residents are entertainment industry figures with million-dollar mansions, Malibu also features several middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods. The Pacific Coast Highway traverses the city and has led most residents to settle anywhere from half a mile to within a few hundred yards of it, with some residents living up to one mile away from the beach in areas featuring narrow canyons. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 10,654.
Aerial view of Downtown Malibu and surrounding neighborhoods
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Adamson House, a historic house and gardens, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
"Malibu Coast, Spring" by Granville Redmond, c. 1929