Salt Life WSA Championship Tour Stop #9 — Salt Creek Dana Point 2027

About this event

The Western Surfing Association wraps its 2026–27 Salt Life WSA Championship Tour presented by Got Milk? with Stop #9 at Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point on April 10 and 11, 2027 — the final regular-season stop before the invitation-only West Coast Championships. Salt Creek is a premier Orange County point-and-beach break below the bluffs at Salt Creek Beach Park, roughly 58 miles south of downtown Los Angeles and squarely within the WSA tour’s core Southern California footprint. This is a regular-season amateur contest open to any competitor who holds current WSA membership, pays the event entry fee, signs the liability waiver, and enters a listed division — it is not invitation-only. Registration is open now through SurfSignup and closes April 7, 2027 at 11:59 PM Pacific. The event runs a full age-bracketed ladder: shortboard from Mini Groms (6 and under) and Micro Grom push-in classes up through Boys’ and Girls’ U10–U18, Men’s 18–29, Masters 30–39, Seniors 40–49, Legends 50+, and Open Men’s and Open Women’s; longboard divisions from U14 and U18 through Open and Senior Men’s 40+; and a full para-surfing and waveski program (PS1–PS3, PS Prone 1–2, PS VI1–VI2, PSK, and Para Waveski). Entry is $90 for Mini Groms, Micro Grom push-in, and the youngest U10/U12 brackets, and $100 for every other division, with current WSA membership required separately. WSA sets division age as of January 1, 2027, and requires proof of age; returning surfers are seeded on prior-season points, surfers moving up receive 80% of their points as a seed, and new surfers are added alphabetically at the bottom of the seed. First-round heat draws and the full heat schedule are published as a downloadable document in the days before the contest; competitors must check in with the beach marshal before their heat and be checked in by the five-minute mark or risk being replaced, and a missed heat drops the surfer to the bottom of the alternate list with no refund. Salt Creek Beach Park is a public OC Parks beach, so watching from the sand or the bluff-top park is free. Per-division outcomes feed the WSA 2026–27 season ratings that decide season titles and USA Surfing pathways as the season closes.

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