{{short description|none}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} [[File:San Elijo Lagoon.jpg|thumb|San Elijo Lagoon in San Diego County, California]] This is a '''list of lagoons of California''' in the United States. According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of Ecology and Conservation'' a lagoon is "a body of shallow water with access to a larger body (such as the ocean) that is restricted by a coral reef or sandbar."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Park |first=Chris C. |title=A dictionary of environment and conservation |date=2017 |others=Michael Allaby |isbn=978-0-19-182632-0 |edition=3rd |location=Oxford |oclc=970401188}}</ref> Lagoons in Southern California tend to be estuarine bodies with depths of {{Cvt|2|m|ft}} or less.<ref name=":1" /> After more than a century of severe ecological disruption,<ref name="Arancibia">{{cite news |last=Arancibia |first=Juan |date=1985-11-07 |title=Endangered Species: Urbanization Threatens Wetland Havens for Migrating Birds |page=LWS18 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> many of California's lagoons have been targeted for restoration, including San Elijo,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nature Collective: A Look at the San Elijo Lagoon Restoration Project |url=https://www.cnpssd.org/events/2023/2/13/nature-collective-a-look-at-the-san-elijo-lagoon-restoration-project |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=San Diego Chapter |date=21 March 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Malibu,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malibu Lagoon Restoration |url=https://www.santamonicabay.org/what-we-do/projects/malibu-lagoon/ |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=The Bay Foundation |language=en}}</ref> Colorado,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colorado Lagoon Restoration |url=https://www.longbeach.gov/citymanager/tidelands/colorado-lagoon-restoration/ |access-date=2023-04-17 |website=www.longbeach.gov |language=en}}</ref> and several others.
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== A–F == * Abbotts Lagoon * Agua Hedionda Lagoon<ref name=":0">Homburg, Jeffrey & Douglass, John & Reddy, Seetha & Grenda, Donn & Ciolek-Torello, Richard & Altschul, Jeffrey. (2022). People in a Changing Land: The Archaeology and History of the Ballona in Los Angeles, California: Volume 1, Paleoenvironment and Culture History. Page 113 URL=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360474301_People_in_a_Changing_Land_The_Archaeology_and_History_of_the_Ballona_in_Los_Angeles_California_Volume_1_Paleoenvironment_and_Culture_History</ref> * Aquatic Park (Berkeley) * Batiquitos Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Ballona Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Belvedere Lagoon * Big Lagoon (California) * Bolinas Lagoon * Bolsa Bay<ref name=":0" /> or Bolsa Chica or Bolsa Chica Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Buena Vista Lagoon * Colorado Lagoon * Del Rey Lagoon * Diablo Canyon or Diablo Canyon Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Drakes Estero * Elkhorn Slough<ref name=":0" /> * Freshwater Lagoon * Famosa Slough State Marine Conservation Area
== G–O ==
* Goleta Slough<ref name=":0" /> * Halcyon Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Humboldt Bay * Humboldt Lagoons State Park * Las Flores or Las Flores Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Lake Earl * Lake Merritt * Los Peñasquitos Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Malibu Lagoon * Mission Bay (San Diego)<ref name=":0" /> * Morro Bay or Morro Bay Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Moss Landing * Mugu Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Neary Lagoon * Newport Bay or Newport Bay Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> or Upper Newport Bay State Marine Conservation Area * Oxford Basin
== P–Z == [[File:Rodeo Lagoon From Trail.JPG|thumb|Rodeo Lagoon in Marin County ]] * Rodeo Lagoon * San Mateo Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * Santa Margarita Marsh<ref name=":0" /> * San Luis Rey or San Luis Rey Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * San Elijo Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * San Dieguito Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> or San Dieguito Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area * San Diego Bay or San Diego Bay Lagoon<ref name=":0" /> * San Elijo Lagoon * Stone Lagoon * Strawberry Lagoon * Tijuana Lagoon<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Elwany |first=M. Hany S. |date=2011 |title=Characteristics, Restoration, and Enhancement of Southern California Lagoons |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29783122 |journal=Journal of Coastal Research |volume=59 |pages=246–255 |doi=10.2112/SI59-026.1 |jstor=29783122 |s2cid=130968250 |issn=0749-0208|url-access=subscription }}</ref> or Tijuana River Estuary (see also Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge) * Younger Lagoon Reserve
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