2024 Leap Sandcastle Classic: NorCal’s Biggest Sandcastle Contest (Ocean Beach)
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Ocean Beach (Balboa) | Great Highway and Balboa, San Francisco, CA
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Submitted by the Event Organizer
On Saturday, October 26, 2024, Leap Arts in Education will take over Ocean Beach to host the largest sandcastle contest in Northern California; featuring team competition, food trucks, and live music all day. The public is invited to join in the fun and experience the construction of dozens of jaw-dropping, supersized sand sculptures.
The public is invited to bring a blanket, grab a bite from the food trucks on site, participate in the competition, and spend a FREE day in the sun, all to support essential arts education.
Leap’s 42nd Annual Sandcastle Classic
Saturday, October 26, 2024 | 11 am to 3:30 pm
Ocean Beach, Balboa Street and Great Highway, SF (just below the Cliff House)
FREE
- Rain or Shine
- Plentiful, free public parking
The 42nd Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic, a San Francisco tradition, raises funds for high quality arts and architecture education for 10,000 Bay Area public school students who would otherwise go without. Thousands flock to Ocean Beach to build giant sand sculptures with architecture, design, technology, engineering and construction companies in partnership with students from local schools.
The 2024 Sandcastle Classic theme is Out of This World, and teams will be including UFO’s, aliens, and cosmic, otherworldly elements in their sandcastle design, t-shirt design, fundraising, and promotion. Halloween Costumes are encouraged!
2024 Event Schedule
Wondering what beach day is going to look like? Here is the general beach day schedule for us at Ocean Beach at Balboa Street:
- 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Teams arrive, Check-in and head to assigned beach site
- 10:00 AM – Teams may begin to prep their sites
- 10:00AM-10:30AM – Students arrive
- 11:00 AM – Sandcastle Building begins with live DJ onstage!
- 11:45 AM – Castle Introductions by student representatives from each team
- 1:30PM – Castle Introductions by student representatives from each team
- 2:30 PM – Sandcastle Building ends
- 3:00PM – Award Ceremony
- 3:30PM – Event Ends
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
