Ranch, The
Fourteen-thousand acres of privately owned and virtually undeveloped land, located 30 miles north of Santa Barbara, California, featuring almost nine miles of pastoral wave-filled coastline.
Adjacent to the surf world's most densely populated surf zone—the Southern California coast from San Diego to Santa Barbara—the fiercely protected Hollister Ranch has for decades been viewed by most American surfers as a kind of inaccessible earthly paradise. About 100 surfers own property on the Ranch, ...