For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Cambria, California Travel Guide has been your connection to Cambria's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Cambria Attractions
People travel from all over the world to experience Hearst Castle State Historic Landmark, a extraordinary shrine to excess built over a twenty year period by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. The magnificent estate, "La Cuesta Encantada" (The Enchanted Hill), is open for tours daily, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. While tickets may be purchased at the Visitor Center upon arrival, Tour Reservations are strongly recommended and may be made by calling (800) 444-4445, seven days a week, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. PST. After touring the magnificent castle, return to your Cambria bed and breakfast, equally magnificent but on a smaller scale, and relax by the fireplace or on the garden veranda and take pleasure in the personal touches of a privately-owned bed and breakfast.
Rural Santa Rosa Creek Road is the perfect place for a bike ride, walk or leisurely drive. Venture through verdant ranch lands, farms and wooded creeks where red tailed hawks, wild turkeys and turkey vultures soar overhead.
Two local parks Shamel County Park and Leffingwell Landing offer nice picnic areas, beaches, tidepools and vantage points for watching sea lions cavorting among the waves. Shamel Park offers an open grassy play and relaxation area, picnic tables, barbecue grills, horse shoe pits, children's playground, and a public swimming pool. Every 4th of July Shamel Park is the site of Cambria's biggest party of the year, with a spectacular fireworks display over Moonstone Beach as the grand finale. Return to your Cambria bed and breakfast after a day in the sun and be greeted by the friendly faces of your innkeepers and a relaxing early evening bed and breakfast wine and hors d’oeuvres hour.
