The Peninsula

Yes, if you want to live on the water: the ocean on one side, calm Alamitos Bay on the other, and a boardwalk where the street would be. Listings are rare and expensive, summers are crowded, and a low sandspit brings its own maintenance, flood-insurance and permit questions.

Peninsula Beach is the city's name for the ocean-side beach on the Long Beach Peninsula, running along the Seaside Walk boardwalk east of 54th Place. The bay side is Peninsula Bayside Beach. Much of the ocean beach was built up in the 1950s and 1960s with sand dredged from Alamitos Bay.

The Peninsula is a sandspit with the open ocean on one side and the bay on the other, where many homes open onto boardwalks and the sand; Naples is three canal islands across the bay, where homes line the canals and gondolas pass by. Both are in ZIP 90803 and both are among the priciest parts of Long Beach.

Read the Naples guide

The Alamitos Peninsula is the landform's traditional name: the sandspit that separates Alamitos Bay from the Pacific at the southeast end of Long Beach. Today most people just call the neighborhood the Peninsula.

Because of the Long Beach Breakwater, a 2.5-mile federal breakwater built offshore from 1941 to 1949. It blocks most of the surf, so the ocean side is usually flat. Surfrider and others have argued for years for reconfiguring it; for now it stays.

Beachfront homes on the ocean side along Seaside Walk, bay-side homes with calm water and sometimes docks, and homes a row or two back. They range from original cottages and duplexes to large rebuilt contemporary houses on narrow, deep lots.

Yes. As of September 2026, houses listed on the Peninsula asked about $2 million to $6.75 million, with a middle near $3.6 million, and duplexes asked about $1.5 million to $4.6 million.

The Peninsula is at the far southeast corner of Long Beach. It starts at 54th Place and Ocean Boulevard at the end of Belmont Shore and runs about a mile to the mouth of Alamitos Bay, across the water from Naples.

They're pedestrian lanes that many homes front instead of a road: Seaside Walk along the ocean and Bayshore Walk along the bay. Front doors open onto a boardwalk and the sand, and parking is on Ocean Boulevard or in rear alleys.

The beach moves every year: waves carry the sand west, and each fall and winter the city moves it back, focusing on the narrow stretch around 62nd to 65th Place. The 1939 tropical storm damaged most buildings here, so check the FEMA flood zone, insurance cost and storm history for any address.

Some bay-side homes do. Dock rights and condition vary by property and involve coastal and city permits, so check the permits and the condition of the specific dock.

Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) serves the Peninsula. Look up the exact address in LBUSD's School Finder, since assignments vary and can change.

Usually, because the breakwater keeps the ocean side flat and the bay side is calmer still. Check water quality first, though: inside the breakwater, Long Beach beaches often get D or F grades on Heal the Bay's report card after rain, so look up current grades before you swim.

The city runs public lots at both ends of the Peninsula, Bayshore Park at the west end and Alamitos Park at the tip. Both fill up on summer weekends, so come early or bike in.

Yes. On a low sandspit the flood zone and the insurance quote matter as much as the house, so I get both for the exact address and walk you through them in Russian. If you're abroad, I'll tour the house on video and show you where the car actually parks off the walk-street.