Long Beach Lifestyles

Spacious and luxurious homes in a variety of architectural styles on Naples Island in Alamitos Bay. Many have docks right outside the door.

Naples is an island in Alamitos Bay in Long Beach, California.  This Long Beach neighborhood is interwoven with charming flower-lined walkways and canals with 5 Venetian-inspired bridges arching over them.  Facing the waterways are luxury homes in a wide range of styles from boldly contemporary to New England shingle-style.  This island is, of course, a man-made creation -- but beautifully so.  

Homes and walkways line the canals that thread through Naples Island.

Naples, however, is only one of many waterfront neighborhoods in Long Beach.  Across from Naples is the Peninsula neighborhood, a narrow strip of land fronting the ocean on one side, Alamitos Bay on the other.  It is the southern-most neighborhood in Long Beach and Los Angeles County.  The Alamitos Bay Yacht Club is located at the very end of Ocean Blvd. on the Peninsula.  Traditionally, homes in this neighborhood are shingle-style -- like beach cottages around the country.  But in recent years mansions have replaced many of them facing the ocean.

Some sail, some paddle, some putter along in boats on Alamitos Bay. The Long Beach Yacht Club is on the right in this photo.

Parts of Belmont Shore face directly onto Alamitos Bay, too.  Then there are the newer neighborhoods of Bay Harbour and Spinnaker Coves where large contemporary "California Spanish" style homes are nestled together in village-like gated communities.  As in Naples, some of these homes have docks right outside the door.

If a condo is more your style, there are condos  in nearby Marina Pacifica, again facing onto Alamitos Bay. There are also beachfront condos that face onto the sand on the long, long beach that gives the city its name.

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