Sunset Cliffs Natural Park is a 68-acre City of San Diego regional park dedicated in 1983, stretching 1.5 miles along the western shoreline of the Point Loma peninsula. The Linear Park section — 18 acres west of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard between Adair and Ladera streets — hosts the bluff-top sunset trail, while waves below the cliffs at Luscomb Point and Garbage Beach feed the morning lineup taught by instructors at Ocean Beach Surf School | Surf Lessons. The 50-acre Hillside Park section south of Ladera Street climbs through native coastal sage scrub habitat that connects directly to the 640-acre Point Loma Ecological Reserve, supporting wildflower blooms and migrating-songbird stopovers. California gray whale migration is visible from the bluffs each winter and early spring as pods travel from the Bering Sea to Baja California calving lagoons. Pre-sunrise photographers and tide-pool researchers fuel up at Brew Wave Coffee on Newport Avenue before navigating the unguarded cliff edges and the intertidal zone exposed at low spring tide. The park's most complex preservation work is the Friends of Sunset Cliffs 501(c)(3) coordinated restoration of eroded 1915 Albert Spalding-era walkways and bluff-edge native-plant revegetation, a multi-year program coordinated with the City and the California Coastal Commission.