La Garrofera, la pineda i la platja

Mostly sunbathing and long picnics under the pines, probably busiest on hot summer Sundays, though the small car park keeps the sand from filling up.

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Picnics the pine forest picnic tables behind the dunes at la Garrofera, off the forest track

The stone tables under the pines are the August answer to unshaded sand: three generations, folding chairs, food that takes hours, and the sea a hundred metres away that half the group never actually reaches. Spring and autumn weekends it fills up with people who came for the forest, not the beach.

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Sunbathing the small car park at la Garrofera and the sand in front of it

On a hot August Sunday the cars cascade southward — El Saler's lot fills, so people carry on to Garrofera, and when that fills the overflow ends up down at la Devesa. Garrofera's lot is small, so once it's full the beach itself has a hard ceiling and stays comfortable all day.

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Nearby in Beaches South

El carril bici de la CV-500, al Pujol
El Saler, la plaça del poble
Platja del Saler, on baixa la passarel·la
Platja de la Devesa, l'extrem sud