Northern San Luis Obispo County Coastal Trail Master Plan

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Northern San Luis Obispo County Coastal Trail Master Plan Segment 1 – County Line to San Carpoforo Creek Segment 1 is located in a rural area at the southern end of the Los Padres National forest within the Big Sur mountain region and includes the Ragged Point Inn, approximately 1.25 miles south of the county line. The Inn provides an event venue, restrooms, gas station, small general store, outdoor café, formal dining facility, and hiking trails. The majority of this segment is characterized by sheer cliffs several hundred feet above the Pacific Ocean. Offshore waters along this segment are part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Estuary, which extends from the community of Cambria north past San Francisco. Informal beach access trails exist north and south of San Carpoforo Creek. Along Segment 1 the trail alignment will likely be located on existing fire roads on USFS land until reaching San Carpoforo Creek. The dominant land uses within this segment are recreation, open space, forest, and agriculture. Segment 2 – Hearst San Simeon State Park – Ragged Point Conservation Area to Piedras Blancas Lighthouse Segment 2 stretches approximately eight miles from the south end of San Carpoforo Creek to about three miles north of San Simeon Bay and Hearst Castle. The segment passes through the Ragged Point and Pico Cove Conservation Areas, which are Hearst Corporation lands with scenic and conservation easements to the state, and access easements to DPR, including defined public access corridors for the CCT and limited, docent-guided public access to other portions of the sites. Between these two conservation areas the alignment continues through the north coast portion San Simeon State Park, past the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse Piedras Blancas Motel site, the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve (SMR) and State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA), the Piedras Blancas Light Station, and the elephant seal rookery north of San Simeon. The Piedras Blancas SMR and SMCA are two adjoining marine protected areas of nearly 20 square miles, established by the California Fish and Game Commission in 2007 under the California Marine Life Protection Act. De la Cruz Rock, Haystack Rock, and Boot and Slipper Rocks, each designated California Coastal National Monuments, are located within the SMR. Several formal and informal beach access points exist along this segment, including: 1) informal trails just south of Arroyo de la Cruz Creek; 2) informal trails near the Piedras Blancas Motel, located approximately 1.75 miles north of the Light Station; 3) two parking and viewing areas located along the bluffs surrounding the elephant seal rookery; and 4) various scenic viewpoints and informal parking areas along the coastal bluffs. Much of Segment 2 includes unrestricted views of the coast and Pacific Ocean from Highway 1. The predominant existing land uses in Segment 2 include agriculture, recreation, and open space. 1-10 Views of the coastline from the Ragged Point Inn
Segment 3 –San Simeon Point to Cambria Segment 3 stretches from 3 miles north of San Simeon Bay southward approximately 9 miles to the northern urban reserve line (URL) of Cambria. Offshore waters along this segment are part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Estuary. The segment passes San Simeon Point and Bay, Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument (Hearst Castle), the community of San Simeon, Hearst San Simeon State Park, Exotic Gardens, and limited agricultural and rural residential uses north of Cambria. The Hearst Castle Visitor Center is located approximately 0.25 mile east of Highway 1 adjacent to San Simeon Point. Introduction and Summary Hearst San Simeon State Park is one of the oldest units in the California State Park System. The park includes the Santa Rosa Creek Natural Preserve, the San Simeon Natural Preserve, and the Pa-nu Cultural Preserve, and is adjacent to the Hearst San Simeon Historical Monument, which includes the “castle” and the visitor’s center. The park offers approximately 3.5 miles of trails, camping, a boardwalk, seasonal wetland area, interpretive panels, a Coastal Discovery Center, Rangerled junior park programs, guided hikes, and many scenic viewpoints. Exotic Gardens is a local tourist attraction noted for its nursery and gardens specializing in succulent plants. The three-acre site is located on the east side of Highway 1 near the north entrance of Moonstone Beach Drive. Several formal and informal beach access points exist along this segment, including parking and trails just north of the mouth of Oak Knoll Creek, trails just south of San Simeon, and multiple scenic viewpoints and parking areas along the coastal bluffs. Segment 3 includes unrestricted views of the beach and Pacific Ocean. This segment includes the community of San Simeon, a tourist-oriented community that includes some residential uses. Predominant land uses in Segment 3 include recreation, agriculture, and visitor-serving commercial uses in the community of San Simeon. Segment 4 –Cambria Segment 4 predominantly runs through the urbanized community of Cambria, with views of surrounding residential, open space, and commercial uses. Adjacent areas east of Cambria are generally used for open space and/or grazing. The segment includes the northwestern portions of Cambria where the beachfront commercial and recreational uses include hotels, motels, restaurants and beachfront residences on the east of Moonstone Drive. Leffingwell and Moonstone State Beach Parks are situated west of Moonstone Drive. From Leffingwell Creek pocket beaches and a bluff top boardwalk extend south for close to one mile towards the mouth of Santa Rosa Creek. William Randolph Hearst Memorial State Beach provides facilities for visitors to Hearst Castle An existing boardwalk in northern Cambria 1-11
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4.2 Trail and Support Facility Type
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Figure 4-18: Segment 1-1 Recommenda
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Piedras Blancas Realignment Project
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Action Plan California Environmenta
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