Keller Beach

Beautiful views while playing in the waves at Keller Beach. I could see boats, SF, the bridge etc. It was a warm summer day though so it was super crowded and some people weren’t picking up after their dogs and also their picnic trash. We parked down the street a ways. I’d come back. It is located through the tunnel from the quaint Point Richmond.

Keller Beach is one of my favorite places to go on a walk after work. It’s is located in the Miller/​Knox Regional Shoreline Park. It’s a beautiful place to come watch the sun go down while being able to view all three bridges on a clear day. There are really cool abandoned train tracks that lead to an loading dock (also abandoned).
Although they have many picnic areas with barbeques, the park is going through a renovation to add newer ADA bathrooms and new sustainable landscapes. So stay tuned, there is a new park coming our way.

What a hidden gem of a beach. If you don’t want to drive in to SF to hit one of the beaches there, then this is one of the best beaches in East bay. We spent a full day soaking in the sun, playing on the beach and swimming on an unusually hot day in September. While I wish the beach was cleaned off of kelp regularly, but regardless of that this is still an amazing place.

My husband, son, some friends of ours and I went to Keller Beach this past Sunday which was pretty hot in Richmond. When we first arrived parking was impossible to find, there is some quite a ways away in a lot, but street parking is much closer. No disabled parking which I though was just ridiculous! We ended up parking up the hill by people’s homes and walking down to the park. The park ranger was least than friendly, with a huge nasty grin on his face just looking at everyone in disgust. I did not use the restrooms, but there are some. As well as some areas to wash down the sand from the beach. There is limited cook space, seating space, and beach space. It looked like their was a sardine of people at the beach. It smells really disgusting of poop. There are stairs and a ramp to go down to the beach, the sand is really filthy and black/​brown. So you cannot tell what is even in it, super gross. There is sea weed, sticks and rocks everywhere. So hard to walk on without sandals. The sand was burning hot, and the water cold. It’s a pathetic excuse for a beach, by far the worst I have ever been to. There was also a lady in a thong swimming suit with NO top, gross. There was so many families there I cannot begin to understand why people do that. I would never recommend this beach to anyone, nor would I ever return.

Good to go n chill for a small local beach hangout, a lot of families come here on the weekends so it’s sprawling with kids if that’s your thing. Weeknights are quiet, sunsets are great, good walks. A lot cleaner than before, thanks to people caring about the environment nowadays… it’s Bay water, if your willing to get wet on a hot summer day, go for it! There’s a outdoor shower to rinse off, and nice little town pass the tunnel. If your not a germaphobe, then it’s a go!

My daughter and I escaped to this small beach only 10 minutes away from Costco in Richmond. It was a happy mini-​vacation, a definite stress-​buster.
Despite the strange gooey black sand with tiny gold flecks (oil spill remnants), I highly recommend this beach. It’s a beautiful place to run and play and dig in (polluted) sand and gaze at the distant Golden Gate Bridge and SF skyline. My daughter happily played with a faded whiskey bottle and an old beer bottle, transferring water and sand from one to the other.
Three middle aged female endurance swimmers emerged from the water after a long swim, happy and healthy. They assured me that the water is safe for swimming. Two researchers from UC Berkeley also spent time in the water on the day of our visit.
It’s a lovely place as long as you can tolerate the reminders of local pollution. I can.

A fun local spot, affording one some sun and meditative lapping waves. Local little secret here.
9 times out of 10, I do hear a lot of Spanish. There are almost always families present. Personally, I love it and speak the language, but it’s not necessarily an environment that all may find «fun».

My experience of Keller Beach was not that great. Don’t get me wrong, there is some good scenic views, but not a beach to swim or anything like that. Sea Weed everywhere, Beach Bums kikn it and very small.

I liked this place in last October, I loved it this April. The weather was very warm, and there weren’t that many seaweeds that washed ashore, so the beach was cleaner and there were more families out with their kids. Overall calm atmosphere, the park was fun too. Saw little ducklings (or gooselings?) at the large pond/​small lake at the park, cute to observe.
Overall, relaxing & calming place to be when you need a fresh scent of nature, away from busy/​crowded cities like Berkeley.

It’s a cute local beach. I wish that the community took better care of it. It would be nice if someone could remove the majority of the bark and weeds from the sand. Also, it would be nice if people could stop littering. Hopefully, the City of Richmond will start taking better care of these hidden and rare gems that add beauty to community.

When I moved up to San Francisco to attend Grad School, I suffered from extreme withdrawal pains from going to the beach. Particularly in the summer, my heart cried out to swim-​in real ocean (or bay) water! But there was a solution to my malady-​Keller Beach in Pt. Richmond.
My best friend at the time had purchased a beautiful home overlooking San Francisco Bay in Pt. Richmond. When I would come over for a visit, we would take walks all along the Bay front and I noticed the waders and families congregating at Keller Beach as we passed by.
One warm day I ventured down to check it out and was utterly charmed by the secluded yet cozy beach. At high tide, there was not much beach to hang out on but people would put their towels down on the rocks and still enjoy the fresh salt air and passing boat traffic.
Eventually I got the courage up to walk out into the Bay and actually got deep enough to swim some. It was no Olympic-​style swimming but it was pleasant enough to cool off and get a little exercise.
Kids seem to love Keller Beach and rightly so. It is the perfect family beach-​with calm waters and easily accessible. Caution: there are no lifeguards. But also above the beach is a nice little area with a kid’s playground, public restrooms, small parking lot, BBQ’s and a couple of picnic tables.
I am so grateful that I found out about Keller Beach-​it is a priceless jewel along San Francisco Bay. It made Grad School bearable and I would take my books and camp out for the day at Keller. It’s nice that right through the Western Drive tunnel, there is the quaint town of Point Richmond-​with lots of dining opportunities and cool sandwich shops to grab some food at! All you San Franciscans can now just forget about shivering it out at Ocean Beach or even Baker Beach!
Come on over to the East Bay and find out what a real beach is!