Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
Central Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 7.5
- Established
- 1976
parks detail
- Hook
- A small sandstone cave of vivid Chumash rock art in the hills above Santa Barbara
- More
- The polychrome paintings — centuries old, some possibly marking a 1677 eclipse — sit behind a grate you peer through; bring a flashlight and park carefully on the narrow mountain road. It's a sacred site, not a photo stop: no flash, no touching, pack the reverence.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.534, -119.791