Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument
Central Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 2309
- Established
- 1932
parks detail
- Hook
- Hearst Castle — the system's only State Historical Monument, Julia Morgan's 115-room hilltop estate
- More
- Julia Morgan spent 28 years building La Cuesta Encantada for W.R. Hearst — Roman pool, Neptune terrace, and the art collection intact because the family gave it all to the state in 1958. Tours are the only access (book ahead); the zebras grazing the coast highway pastures descend from Hearst's private zoo.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 35.6852, -121.168