I hope then never open it up to the public beyond the normal mean high tide line. This is a beautiful place, which is accessible already by boat, and when accessed provides beautiful and well cared for, unsullied beaches reminiscent of what California was before being overrun by midwesterners being told to “go west”. Just because it’s private doesn’t mean it’s not well preserved, and just because it’s well preserved doesn’t mean it needs to be open to everyone to see and experience.
Never open this pristine area. Was able to camp and surf there many many years ago and couldn’t believe how incredible it was. Haven’t been back but there has to be some areas undisturbed by crowds
I lived on the ranch ,74-75as a 14 year old kid surfing often times by myself. Lefts &rights. Lived the dream. Went back in the mid 80s when my brother lived there as a gate guard. It was ruined by then.
About public access at Hollister Beaches, I hope and pray they don't do ' improvements' there like Bill Clinton had them do at Gaviota State Park. They cut down every tall Eucalyptus Tree there. Leveled all the bushes etc down to a lawn that looked like a Golf Course. ( That was a migrating bird estuary ! ) And paved the entire dirt ground at the campsites with asphalt! If I wasn't writing this, you'd hear me use the F Word alot. People, just like the 1rst Yankee Stadium is gone let's keep our sensitive coastline from disappearing too.
No, there is not. To the North of Hollister Ranch lies the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. To the South of Hollister Ranch lies Gaviota State Beach. I believe that the 1982 Hollister Ranch Coastal Access Program provided for access from the Gaviota side.
@@llaumann Thanks Lynn...I live in San Clemente but go up to SB alot to visit family. I was up at Jalama in late June and was standing there at the Cojo gate thinking about being there in (on the Ranch back in high school with friends who had a home there)...and then got to go onto the Ranch from Gaviota side in 2019 to Drakes beach with my sister who knew a resident there....That was awesome! "Going up next week and my sister and I were just talking about taking a hike...I told her no access (besides the beach access at low tide only) lol...and that I was not interested....so we will go to Inspiration Point right there at the Lompoc exit. Do you work on one of the committees up there?
@@marycelestemcdonald1927 I grew up in Santa Ynez in the 1980's, and Gaviota was my local beach. We fished at Gaviota pier and surfed at Refugio, El Capitan and Jalama. It is a shame that Hollister Ranch never implemented the 1982 Hollister Ranch Coastal Access Program. My adolescent years would have been filled with better surf. Looking back, we were a relatively poor family. The poor only get leftovers and scraps of the rich. documents.coastal.ca.gov/assets/hollister-ranch/HRCAP%20FAQs%2010202021_English.pdf
It sounds like to me that the people have polluted all the southern beaches except this one so this stretch of beach is the last clean one left and they want to dirty it up? For Me, I agree with the people who live there and do not want to see the beautiful beaches trashed. Furthermore surfing is highly overrated when you can loose your life to a shark. Why people who love to play in shark infested waters is something Ill never understand. I'm glad there are some decent people who can appreciate nature without dirtying it up. Once a year there need to be a group of volunteers cleaning up the beaches they use and be diligent in keeping it clean.
I was wondering why so many properties on the ranch, were up for sale. I first thought it must be ecological in nature... nope, the privacy is done. The place will get trashed and it will become unsafe ...for generations to come. ( I have fond memories of old man Hollister, his son John, John's Dalmatian, Jupiter,[ that would become my first dog], when John did not come back from the war. Cowboys still rode in at night -fall , back then.)
Definitely create more public access. I’ll bet Hollister Ranch owners love to talk about “diversity and inclusion” except NOT when it will impact their own lives! Then they fight it. Probably a bunch of hypocrites.
except for when tourists flood the last remaining coastlines, leave trash, and ruin the last undeveloped beach spots in california. who's gonna pay for the utilities / construction for all the parking lots? the parking fees will pay for some but really the burden is on the locals. piss off. stop ruining the natural beauty of california.
@@Jay-fq8uz you already can visit the hollister ranch you dimwit! Public access already fully 100% exists! You just have to man up and hike in, boat in, swim in, paddle in, take a hot air balloon in, get rich and buy property to get in etc. how is it possible in 2023 that people with an internet connection aren’t educated on the fact that anyone who wants to visit the beaches here at any time for any reason can already do so… ab 1680 was created for idiots of the public like you that is lazy and doesn’t know how to grab life by the horns and achieve whatever it is they want! Opening the gates to the public will ruin everything and solve nothing. Why do people like you offer opinions on this matter when it’s abundantly clear you have never visited this special place?
Why are you offering your opinions on this subject when it’s evident that you have never visited HR? Public access already exists and it’s perfectly designed to keep those that are to lazy or misinformed to stay away so that people like me that actually know how to read the laws and have hiked in numerous times proving that access is already perfectly available… ab 1680 Opens The gates to the people that haven’t earned the right to be there.. I hike in like a boss and I would literally laugh at anyone trying to restrict my access to these waves since hiking in puts you atop the pecking order with those that own property there and way above anyone that boats in there… but hell, the place is so empty on weekdays there isn’t really a pecking order to begin with which is the holy grail of life experiences anyone can ever have as a surfer in California.
allow ebikes and make the ranch association build the bathrooms necessary . just tell the ranch owners they cannot stop people at the entrance gate and your done. this really is not that hard if you need to go big put up fences on the sides of the trails leading to the beach.think of the trestles bike path in San Clemente not so hard was it :) also give us some access to bixby and sudden ranches while your at it
Anyone who rides an e-bike to trestles or any surf spot instead of skateboard is a huge pussy. I don’t care how good they are at surfing if they ride an e-bike I am dropping in on them and stealing their chick and her hotter sister. And as for the rest of your comment, it is evident to me that you have zero idea of what your talking about. Since the ranch in its current form is 100% accessible. Thank god the big swells in early January washed away most of the sand so riding your womanly e-bike would be a huge chore and not worth it.. hiking into the ranch requires being a man and being a man means you hike In on your own 2 Feet. I even think the boaters are pussies too but that’s just cuz I’m jealous I don’t own a boat. I have hiked all the way to st Augustine one time from gaviota and there’s comes a certain point once you get to drakes and anything beyond that if you made the hike in you will have have a certain swagger for having giant balls and able to endure the journey there and back and it kinda puts you at the top of the hierarchy even above som of the loc dogs that can surf provided you actually know how to surf too. Yes you will be exhausted , yes anything past drakes is worthless anyway (I haven’t been to the bixby cojo perkos rights and lefts side) And yes I after writing this i still feel like you need your ranch cherry popped so you can get off your e-bike and be a man. The ranch owners absolutely can and should continue to stop people at the gate, especially people like you. It’s private property and the fragile ecosystem will be lost and ruined forever if they open up the gates. Any surfer that hasn’t been to the hollister ranch living in California is dumb and useless. They are useless since the only people in favor OF AB 1680 are the ones that have never been to there before. Which means your opinions should be kept to yourself regarding the matter. Keeping the gates closed is the only acceptable solution to keeping this place as epic it is. Any argument or disagreement with that is admitting defeat. I know what I’m talking about which makes me superior to you in debating this subject and that is Because I have walked in easily more than anyone else on the entire planet within last 3 years. Averaging about 25 times a year in the winter months. I don’t boat in and I don’t drive in, I hike in like a boss! 🦍
Just wait for the massive amount of Graffiti to start being sprayed on the ranch restrooms and rocks...Just like whats going on in Malibu. Equity always brings crime and vandalism.
This is private property. There should be no public access. That’s how it works. Do you want to come see the Hollister Ranch you must pay like everybody else
That music lulled me to sleep... just what the Coastal Commission wants us all to do.
Keep it private and pristine.
I hope then never open it up to the public beyond the normal mean high tide line. This is a beautiful place, which is accessible already by boat, and when accessed provides beautiful and well cared for, unsullied beaches reminiscent of what California was before being overrun by midwesterners being told to “go west”. Just because it’s private doesn’t mean it’s not well preserved, and just because it’s well preserved doesn’t mean it needs to be open to everyone to see and experience.
Never open this pristine area. Was able to camp and surf there many many years ago and couldn’t believe how incredible it was. Haven’t been back but there has to be some areas undisturbed by crowds
You can thank your Governor Gavin.
I had a pass 1969-70. Great surf year.
Make it more private, not less. Why ruin the last bit of pristine coastline?? Man is not satisfied until it’s all destroyed …
I lived on the ranch ,74-75as a 14 year old kid surfing often times by myself. Lefts &rights. Lived the dream. Went back in the mid 80s when my brother lived there as a gate guard. It was ruined by then.
Any trail is a bad idea.Walk or get a boat !
Keep it private it’s gonna get ruined
About public access at Hollister Beaches, I hope and pray they don't do ' improvements' there like Bill Clinton had them do at Gaviota State Park. They cut down every tall Eucalyptus Tree there. Leveled all the bushes etc down to a lawn that looked like a Golf Course. ( That was a migrating bird estuary ! ) And paved the entire dirt ground at the campsites with asphalt! If I wasn't writing this, you'd hear me use the F Word alot. People, just like the 1rst Yankee Stadium is gone let's keep our sensitive coastline from disappearing too.
Happy no-one is allowed to drive on the beaches there as of 2019. That's a major plus.
PLEASE NO public access, I've been boating in since 1976. keep it the way it is.
So as of today, is there public walk in access at the Cojo gate or some trail at northern end of Hollister Ranch?
No, there is not. To the North of Hollister Ranch lies the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. To the South of Hollister Ranch lies Gaviota State Beach. I believe that the 1982 Hollister Ranch Coastal Access Program provided for access from the Gaviota side.
@@llaumann Thanks Lynn...I live in San Clemente but go up to SB alot to visit family. I was up at Jalama in late June and was standing there at the Cojo gate thinking about being there in (on the Ranch back in high school with friends who had a home there)...and then got to go onto the Ranch from Gaviota side in 2019 to Drakes beach with my sister who knew a resident there....That was awesome! "Going up next week and my sister and I were just talking about taking a hike...I told her no access (besides the beach access at low tide only) lol...and that I was not interested....so we will go to Inspiration Point right there at the Lompoc exit. Do you work on one of the committees up there?
@@marycelestemcdonald1927 I grew up in Santa Ynez in the 1980's, and Gaviota was my local beach. We fished at Gaviota pier and surfed at Refugio, El Capitan and Jalama. It is a shame that Hollister Ranch never implemented the 1982 Hollister Ranch Coastal Access Program. My adolescent years would have been filled with better surf. Looking back, we were a relatively poor family. The poor only get leftovers and scraps of the rich. documents.coastal.ca.gov/assets/hollister-ranch/HRCAP%20FAQs%2010202021_English.pdf
It sounds like to me that the people have polluted all the southern beaches except this one so this stretch of beach is the last clean one left and they want to dirty it up? For Me, I agree with the people who live there and do not want to see the beautiful beaches trashed.
Furthermore surfing is highly overrated when you can loose your life to a shark. Why people who love to play in shark infested waters is something Ill never understand.
I'm glad there are some decent people who can appreciate nature without dirtying it up. Once a year there need to be a group of volunteers cleaning up the beaches they use and be diligent in keeping it clean.
I was wondering why so many properties on the ranch, were up for sale. I first thought it must be ecological in nature... nope, the privacy is done. The place will get trashed and it will become unsafe ...for generations to come. ( I have fond memories of old man Hollister, his son John, John's Dalmatian, Jupiter,[ that would become my first dog], when John did not come back from the war. Cowboys still rode in at night -fall ,
back then.)
Definitely create more public access. I’ll bet Hollister Ranch owners love to talk about “diversity and inclusion” except NOT when it will impact their own lives! Then they fight it. Probably a bunch of
hypocrites.
except for when tourists flood the last remaining coastlines, leave trash, and ruin the last undeveloped beach spots in california. who's gonna pay for the utilities / construction for all the parking lots? the parking fees will pay for some but really the burden is on the locals. piss off. stop ruining the natural beauty of california.
@@Sketchylemons okay but someone needs to be able to visit it right? If not why are you allowed to go to any other beach?
@@Jay-fq8uz you already can visit the hollister ranch you dimwit! Public access already fully 100% exists! You just have to man up and hike in, boat in, swim in, paddle in, take a hot air balloon in, get rich and buy property to get in etc. how is it possible in 2023 that people with an internet connection aren’t educated on the fact that anyone who wants to visit the beaches here at any time for any reason can already do so… ab 1680 was created for idiots of the public like you that is lazy and doesn’t know how to grab life by the horns and achieve whatever it is they want! Opening the gates to the public will ruin everything and solve nothing. Why do people like you offer opinions on this matter when it’s abundantly clear you have never visited this special place?
Why are you offering your opinions on this subject when it’s evident that you have never visited HR? Public access already exists and it’s perfectly designed to keep those that are to lazy or misinformed to stay away so that people like me that actually know how to read the laws and have hiked in numerous times proving that access is already perfectly available… ab 1680
Opens
The gates to the people that haven’t earned the right to be there.. I hike in like a boss and I would literally laugh at anyone trying to restrict my access to these waves since hiking in puts you atop the pecking order with those that own property there and way above anyone that boats in there… but hell, the place is so empty on weekdays there isn’t really a pecking order to begin with which is the holy grail of life experiences anyone can ever have as a surfer in California.
@@wyattjeffers7885 relax buddy I don't know I'm not from there.
allow ebikes and make the ranch association build the bathrooms necessary . just tell the ranch owners they cannot stop people at the entrance gate and your done. this really is not that hard if you need to go big put up fences on the sides of the trails leading to the beach.think of the trestles bike path in San Clemente not so hard was it :) also give us some access to bixby and sudden ranches while your at it
Anyone who rides an e-bike to trestles or any surf spot instead of skateboard is a huge pussy. I don’t care how good they are at surfing if they ride an e-bike I am dropping in on them and stealing their chick and her hotter sister. And as for the rest of your comment, it is evident to me that you have zero idea of what your talking about. Since the ranch in its current form is 100% accessible. Thank god the big swells in early January washed away most of the sand so riding your womanly e-bike would be a huge chore and not worth it.. hiking into the ranch requires being a man and being a man means you hike
In on your own 2
Feet. I even think the boaters are pussies too but that’s just cuz I’m jealous I don’t own a boat. I have hiked all the way to st Augustine one time from gaviota and there’s comes a certain point once you get to drakes and anything beyond that if you made the hike in you will have have a certain swagger for having giant balls and able to endure the journey there and back and it kinda puts you at the top of the hierarchy even above som of the loc dogs that can surf provided you actually know how to surf too. Yes you will be exhausted , yes anything past drakes is worthless anyway (I haven’t been to the bixby cojo perkos rights and lefts side) And yes I after writing this i still feel like you need your ranch cherry popped so you can get off your e-bike and be a man. The ranch owners absolutely can and should continue to stop people at the gate, especially people like you. It’s private property and the fragile ecosystem will be lost and ruined forever if they open up the gates. Any surfer that hasn’t been to the hollister ranch living in California is dumb and useless. They are useless since the only people in favor OF AB 1680 are the ones that have never been to there before. Which means your opinions should be kept to yourself regarding the matter. Keeping the gates closed is the only acceptable solution to keeping this place as epic it is. Any argument or disagreement with that is admitting defeat. I know what I’m talking about which makes me superior to you in debating this subject and that is Because I have walked in easily more than anyone else on the entire planet within last 3 years. Averaging about 25 times a year in the winter months. I don’t boat in and I don’t drive in, I hike in like a boss! 🦍
Just wait for the massive amount of Graffiti to start being sprayed on the ranch restrooms and rocks...Just like whats going on in Malibu. Equity always brings crime and vandalism.
This is private property. There should be no public access. That’s how it works. Do you want to come see the Hollister Ranch you must pay like everybody else