Huntington Beach sits on the Orange County coast in Southern California, a surf town known around the world as Surf City USA. The Huntington Beach Pier stretches into the Pacific, and the beach below it hosts the US Open of Surfing each summer, drawing top surfers and large crowds. Main Street, just off the sand, offers surf shops, restaurants, and the International Surfing Museum, which honors the sport's history and its local legends. To the north, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve protects wetlands where birds rest on their Pacific Flyway journeys.