West coast open water swim events (1-3 miles)

Swimming
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I’m looking to do some fun “mid distance” (1-3 miles) open water swim events in the US and ideally west coast over the next couple years and haven’t found an easy way to find them (any tips there would be great!) In absence of that, I thought I’d start a thread to help surface some of these. I’m fairly new to the sport, so this may be very obvious to others. Here are a few on my radar:

Fat Salmon Swim - Seattle, WA

Oceanside Pier Swim - Oceanside, CA

La Jolla Cove Swim - La Jolla, CA

Alcatraz Sharkfest - San Francisco

Lake Tahoe Sharkfest - Lake Tahoe

Waikiki Rough Water Swim - Hawaii

Any other great swims you’d add or call out?

Thx!

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Here’s a link to a list, haven’t vetted but looks pretty complete

There are also

-Dwight Crum Pier to Pier - 2 miles Hermosa to Manhattan, first weekend of August

-Swim the Avenues 1.2 mile swim, Redondo Beach. In September I believe \

-Swim for Mental Health - low key nontimed event, any distance from a mile (or less) to 10K, Redondo Beach September

-La Jolla 10 mile relay

-Sharkfest San Diego, Coronado Island

-Naples Island 1 and 3 mile (actually about 1.2 and 2.8 miles :slight_smile: ), Long Beach August

-Newport pier to pier

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Donner Lake is epic! Hard to get into, sells out in <1/2 hour