Belmont Shore Pier Long Beach California

Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier 1,620 feet long, concrete.
15 39th Place, Long Beach, CA belmontpier.com

Belmont Shore, a community that functions as part of the city of Long Beach, spans 2nd Street and Ocean Avenue on the southern end of the city's beaches and coastline. Belmont Shore has its very own shopping district, business association, pier and recreation center featuring the landmark Belmont Pool where an Olympic gold medalist has taught swim lessons for years at a public pool right at the beach. The swimming pool is located next door to one of the community's top attractions, the public pier called Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier.

Fact: Ties with Ventura Pier as 8th longest pier(s) in California.

Throughout the year the pier is a hub for free pier fishing. People come and spend the day off fishing, sometimes bringing their family with them. Special events on the pier include fundraisers, and the annual installation of the Christmas Tree decoration.

When the community grew rapidly in 1906 as the fastest growing subdivision in Long Beach, the residents wanted a pier. Pleasure piers had sprung up along the coast providing entertaining fun, amusement rides, and places to stroll. The angry residents of Belmont Heights voted to become the City of Belmont in 1908, fed up about high taxes imposed by the City of Long Beach. What stopped them from becoming Belmont? The promise of a pier.

A year later they voted to rejoin Long Beach when city officials told Belmont residents they would get their pier. In 1915 the pier project was constructed, and today, the community still feels like its own place, though it pays taxes to Long Beach and looks to them again to fix the decaying pier.

The current pier was built in 1966, replacing a wooden pier that stood for over 50 years. The 1,620 foot-long concrete pier has been renovated in stages with portable restrooms now offering suitable accommodations for families that spend the day on the pier fishing and relaxing in the warm Southern California sunshine. Free public fishing is permitted as long as you stay on the pier to fish. Pay parking is available in a public lot near the base of the pier.

A restaurant at the end of the pier serves soft drinks, sandwiches, candies and snacks. The pier is located at Ocean and 39th Place, Long Beach, CA.

More history from the City of Long Beach...

 Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier was first built 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 1980s.