Date: 01/01/2015

Number: 29804

The second largest California overwintering site in 2014

This wintering site is known as Pismo Beach, North Beach Campground. It was one of 4 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2014.

This site's Thanksgiving Count data:

November, 2010: 21,286

November, 2011: 18,000

November, 2012: 28,086

November, 2013: 30,293

November, 2014: 29,804

Summary of 2014 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 234,731 monarchs

Total counts: 185 sites

Average: 1,268.8 monarchs

Data collected by volunteers for the 2014 The Xerces Society Western Monarch Thanksgiving Counts. Database created by Dennis Frey (Cal Poly), Shawna Stevens (Cal Poly), and Mia Monroe (Muir Woods NPS)

Pismo Beach, CA

Latitude: 35.2 Longitude: -120.7

Observed by:
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