Ocean Avenue is a road in

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

that starts at the residential Adelaide Drive on the north end of

Santa Monica Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to ...

and ends at

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. Ocean Avenue is the westernmost street in Santa Monica, and for most of its course it runs parallel to Palisades Park, whose bluffs overlook Pacific Coast Highway and

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. There are several luxury mid-rise and high rise condos with views overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica Beach, Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains. The

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is two blocks east. The Santa Monica Pier is located at the intersection of Ocean and Colorado. Many major east-west arterial roads such as

Wilshire Boulevard Wilshire Boulevard is a prominent boulevard in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, extending from Ocean Avenue in the city of Santa Monica east to Grand Avenue in the Financial District of downtown Los Angeles. One of the principal ...

Santa Monica Boulevard Santa Monica Boulevard is a major west–east thoroughfare in Los Angeles County. It runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean to Sunset Boulevard at Sunset Junction in Los Angeles. It passes through Beverly Hills and West ...

and

begin their western ends on Ocean Avenue. Southeast bound past Pico Blvd., Ocean turns into Neilson Way. After Neilson Way hits

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the street becomes Pacific Avenue, which continues past Washington Boulevard through the

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, ultimately ending at Via Marina and the main

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connecting

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harbor to the

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. The intersection with California Avenue (the

California Incline The California Incline is a slanted road in Santa Monica, California, connecting Ocean Avenue with State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway or PCH). It technically is the last link, the western end of California Avenue, a minor east–west str ...

) leads to Pacific Coast Highway. The Pacific Coast Highway itself crosses underneath Ocean Avenue via the

McClure Tunnel The McClure Tunnel is a tunnel in Santa Monica, California, that connects Pacific Coast Highway (California State Route 1, State Route 1) to its junction with the western terminus of the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10 in California, In ...

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and his wife

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own a penthouse apartment on Ocean Avenue.

References

{{Coord missing, Los Angeles County, California Streets in Santa Monica, California