Skip to main content
3 days
United States, North America

3-Day Newport Beach itinerary guide

Use this route structure as a starting point, then adapt stops and timing with your group in Journii.

Newport Beach — Crystal Cove Beach Cottages 35 Crystal Cove Newport Beach, CA 92657, USA - panoramio (18)

Top stops to prioritize

  • Newport Beach Pier
  • Ruby's Diner
  • Fashion Island
  • Blaze Pizza
  • Crystal Cove State Park
  • Pelican Grill
  • Newport Beach Municipal Beach
  • Newport Landing Whale Watching

Day 1: Most popular attractions

For day 1, we strategically grouped the most popular attraction, Balboa Island, with surrounding point of interests to start your trip off with a bang.

  • Newport Beach Pier
  • Newport Beach Municipal Beach
  • Newport Landing Whale Watching
  • Balboa Island Ferry
  • Newport Beach Balboa Pier

Day 2: Off the beaten path

For day 2, if you don’t mind the extra trek, today covers more off the beaten path places like Roger's Gardens.

  • Fashion Island
  • Roger's Gardens
  • Balboa Island
  • West Jetty View Park

Day 3: Proximity is everything

For day 3, we bundled attractions like Crystal Cove State Park and Crystal Cove Shopping Center and other places within a close range, so that the time it takes to travel between all of them is less than one hour.

  • Crystal Cove State Park
  • Crystal Cove Shopping Center
  • Pelican Hill Golf Club
  • Balboa Fun Zone

Related itinerary guides

Turn this guide into a shared trip: add flights, accommodation, transport notes, and reservations so your whole group can edit one timeline.