For millennia, this pristine central California landscape has attracted people from near and far. Obispeno Chumash and Migueleno Salinan Indian tribes. Spanish missionaries and settlers. Then, ranchers, farmers, and families on weekend outings.

They came for the hilltop views of endless horizon stretching to the Santa Lucia range and beyond. They came for the air, warm and sage-scented, the grassy savannas sun-speckled or shadowed in folds. They came for that indescribable quality we now call the California dream.

This California exists now mainly in legend. But at the historic Santa Ysabel Ranch the legend is yours for the living.