Step onto the sand at Crystal Cove, and you’ll be transported back in time. It’s a snapshot of what ocean towns up and down the California coastline looked like in the ’20s and ’30s, some of the ...

Staying at one of the coveted Crystal Cove cottages is like taking a travel trip back in time – and it could make for the perfect Christmas gift, if you’re lucky enough to nab a spot. Getting a ...

For five years, the quaint cottages at the north end of Crystal Cove have been a construction zone, tucked behind fencing as an elaborate effort to revitalize the historic structures has been underway ...

The north beach Crystal Cove State Beach cottages in Newport Beach on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 as the Crystal Cove Conservancy announced they are ready to break ground on the second phase of ...

Laura Davick walks through a tiny, rundown cottage in Crystal Cove and brushes a spiderweb off her face. The interior in this and other aging beach cottages is as decayed and dilapidated as the ocean ...