Registration OPEN for 2025 Guided Tours!
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About Ishxenta State Park
The purpose of Ishxenta State Park - formerly known as the Point Lobos Ranch property, is to preserve and protect an extremely scenic portion of the northern Big Sur Coast. Located on significant Indigenous Ancestral Land, 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.
The property and surrounding public lands provide mountain lion habitat, and at the upper elevations, offers spectacular views of Carmel Bay and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary coastline. The San Jose Creek provides protection for steelhead trout spawning grounds. The property also contains an early twentieth century complex of ranch buildings.
For more information on Ishxenta State Park and the surrounding Carmel Area State Parks, please view the Carmel Area State Parks General Plan.
Ishxenta State Park - Limited Access Via Monthly Public Tours
Ishxenta State Park's lower creekside trail is open to the public on a limited basis via California State Parks staff-led tours.
State Parks hosts two different monthly hikes via Event Brite registration as well as a collaborative tour with the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District "Let's Go Outdoors" program.
Please see News & Events section for more information about and to register for available tours!
For more information about CA State Parks collaboration with the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District "Let's Go Outdoors" program, please visit: https://www.mprpd.org/let-s-go-outdoors
