Point Lobos Ranch


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Point Lobos Ranch


Location:South of Monterey, in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Facilities:Under development.
Special Features:This property is new and not yet open to the public. Its purpose is to preserve an extremely scenic portion of the northern Big Sur Coast, an area offering spectacular views of Carmel Bay and the Pacific Ocean coastline. The property contains one of the world's largest native Monterey Pine forests, examples of the rare Gowen cypress, and areas of the rare maritime chaparral plant community. It also provides mountain lion habitat.
Address:c/o Monterey District Office
2211 Garden Rd
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone:831-624-4909
Web: www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=569
Size: 1,329 acres.
See other parks in California.
Parks Directory of the United States, 5th Edition. © 2007 by Omnigraphics, Inc.
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The trust saved Point Lobos Ranch, just east of the original state park, from a proposed hotel resort development, and 1,300 acres were added to the park in a complicated transaction whereby BSLT guaranteed the private sellers a ten-year mortgage as state funds from the 1990 Wildlife Protection Act (Proposition 117) became available on a year-to-year basis.
The land of Big Sur: conservation on the California coast

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