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    Soon you can visit this pristine California beach — if you're a nearby landowner, on a guided tour or willing to paddle 2 miles

    by Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2018 5 minutes

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - One of California's least tarnished stretches of coastline will be accessible only to wealthy property owners, visitors with guides and those who can boat or paddle two miles under a deal between state officials and landowners in Hollister Ranch, who have for decades fought to keep their beaches almost entirely to themselves.

    The settlement - signed by the California State Coastal Conservancy and the state Coastal Commission on one side and the Hollister Ranch Owners Association on the other - grants the public a roughly three-quarter-mile section of beach, accessible only by ocean "via surfboard, paddleboard, kayak or soft-bottom boat." The beach is about two miles from Gaviota State Park beach.

    The homeowners group also will expand its after-school tide pool program and organize nonprofit group trips that would bring in about 400 people each

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