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Big Lagoon is a census-designated place in Humboldt County on California's far North Coast, located 7 miles north of Trinidad at an elevation of 56 feet.

The community takes its name from Big Lagoon itself, a coastal lagoon of about 1,470 acres that is the largest and southernmost of the lagoons protected within Humboldt Lagoons State Park, a 2,256-acre park established in 1931.

The lagoon stretches about 3.8 miles long behind a narrow sand spit that separates it from the Pacific Ocean, and ocean water only breaks through the barrier during winter storms.

Together with Stone Lagoon and Freshwater Lagoon, Big Lagoon forms part of one of the largest lagoon systems in the continental United States, and the lagoons serve as resting areas for migratory waterfowl traveling the Pacific Flyway.

The 955-acre Harry A. Merlo State Recreation Area protects redwood forest along the lagoon's shore, while Big Lagoon County Park on the south shore offers camping and canoe access near the community and the Big Lagoon Rancheria.

The 2020 census counted 161 residents in Big Lagoon, a jump of 73.1% from just 93 in 2010.

The Census Bureau classifies the entire community of Big Lagoon as rural, and its 161 residents are spread across just 0.61 square miles of land.

Herds of Roosevelt elk are sometimes seen in the marshy ground around Maple Creek where it feeds into the lagoon, and river otters play along the lagoon's eastern shore.