Natural Bridges is home to a fascinating diversity of life within its 65 acres. The park's Monarch Butterfly Natural Preserve provides a temporary home for up to 150,000 monarchs each winter. The monarchs usually arrive in October and stay throughout the winter, leaving for their spring habitat in early February.

Sea Life
The beach, with its famous natural bridge, is an excellent vantage point for viewing a wide variety of wildlife. Shore birds, migrating whales, seals and sea otters are often seen frolicking in the cool coastal waters directly offshore.

Low tide reveals another noteworthy feature: the tidepools. Huge rocky outcrops along the coast provide visitors a view into the lives of unusual ocean creatures that call this their home. Sea stars, crabs, and sea anemones flourish in the protective pools that have formed in the rocks. You may even see an octopus, but you'll have to look hard to find this elusive creature.

Vegetation
In the spring, the park's large area of coastal scrub meadow comes to life with a bright and colorful display of native wildflowers. Moore Creek, which flows through the meadow on its way to the ocean, has been a contributing force to the formation of the park's wetlands in the sand.