Frisco Pier Surf Guide

Frisco Pier Surf Guide

The actual pier was named Cape Hatteras Pier, but the actual pier is actually gone. Still, Frisco Pier is the most popular zone on the south side, protected from angry N/NE energy and offshore in northerly winds. Wrap swells sometimes produce grinding lefts, but given Frisco’s south-facing catcher’s mitt and wide swell window, it prefers S swells. Frisco Pier can handle bigger swells but it is aggravatingly fickle, hence the phrase “Frisco Disco.” (Drive all the way down there from wherever you came from, check it, do a disco spin, and drive back). More often than not, mushy, barely catchable peaks somehow morph into dumpy walls the minute they feel the hard-packed sandbar, translating to impossibly fast closeouts. But Frisco can and will turn on and off at the drop of a hat, and on certain southerly swells with northerly winds, there are magical windows.