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Bodega Bay California Map

Explore Bodega Bay, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Bodega Bay, California

How to Use This Bodega Bay, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bodega Bay, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bodega Bay.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Bodega Bay
State	California (CA)
County	Sonoma County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.327215
Longitude	-123.02923
Population	912
Density	42.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	94923
Area Code	510
County Seat	Santa Rosa
School District	Shoreline Unified School District

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About Bodega Bay, California

Bodega Bay is a locality in Sonoma County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 912. The population density is 42.2 people per km². Bodega Bay is located at 38.3272°N, 123.0292°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 94923.

Bodega Bay holds the Pacific Ocean in a cold, salt-crusted embrace, where the shoreline fractures into the rugged, wind-scoured terrain of Johnson Gulch. It lies 18.8 miles west of Rohnert Park, CA (from Rohnert Park, CA: bearing 269°T), and is situated 19.5 miles west-southwest of Santa Rosa. The landscape is defined by the raw interface of land and tide, where the restless currents of the Pacific Ocean carve deep into the earth, and the nearby Sonoma Coast State Park preserves a wild, untamed expanse of dunes and grass that shivers under the persistent, damp breath of the sea. Beyond the immediate reach of the spray, the land rises into golden, tinder-dry slopes, and one might discern the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges standing as a silent, monolithic witness to the shifting light of the afternoon.

Salmon Creek spills its quiet, meandering volume into the brine, marking a boundary where the pulse of the earth slows to the rhythm of the tides. The local economy remains tethered to the harvest of the deep, a heritage of small-scale maritime industry that persists despite the changing fortunes of the docks, where the silhouette of Pinnacle Rock looms two miles off the coast like a jagged tooth rising from the depths. Life in Bodega Bay is measured by the haul of the day and the encroaching fog, far removed from the bustle of the interior, and though the Monte Rio Fire Trail lies eight miles distant and Jenner Pond rests eight miles inland, the geography here is defined entirely by the weight of the water.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Doran Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 221° SW
Whale Jaw Bone (Attraction) — 0.6 mi, 262° W
Scuba Brown (Public Artwork) — 0.6 mi, 264° W
Doran Regional Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 200° S
Whaling Artifacts (Attraction) — 0.8 mi, 275° W
Robert J. Bugatto (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 277° W
Tides Restaurant Original Facade (Attraction) — 0.9 mi, 276° W
Meredith Pier Public Art Project (Gallery) — 0.9 mi, 280° W
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 1.0 mi, 191° S
Estero Americano Coast Reserve (Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 137° SE
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 1.3 mi, 165° S · 8,946 acres
Sonoma Coast State Park (State Park) — 1.3 mi, 297° NW
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery (Gallery) — 1.3 mi, 309° NW
Bodega Bay Sea Gals Commemorative Plaque (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 309° NW
Nicholas Green (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 309° NW
Bodega Marine Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 247° SW
Estero Americano Preserve (Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 120° SE
Bodega Head State Marine Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 2.2 mi, 283° W
Horseshoe Cove Overlook (Viewpoint) — 2.3 mi, 241° SW
Point Reyes National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 6.0 mi, 163° S · 135k acres
Phillip Burton Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 6.0 mi, 164° S · 33k acres
Occidental Center For the Arts (Arts Centre) — 7.2 mi, 037° NE
Bohemia Ecological Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 8.6 mi, 019° N
Duncans Mills Depot Museum (Museum) — 8.8 mi, 351° N
Christopher Queen Galleries (Gallery) — 8.9 mi, 351° N
Sturgeons Steam Mill – Historic (Attraction) — 9.2 mi, 049° NE
Monte Rio Theater (Cinema) — 9.7 mi, 006° N
Curtain Call Theatre (Theatre) — 9.8 mi, 006° N
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 9.8 mi, 145° SE · 113k acres
Sebastopol Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 12.1 mi, 065° NE

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