RIDES AND DESTINATION
Situated atop the Santa Lucia Mountains on the central California coast, Hearst Castle is one of the world’s great destinations on one of the world’s premier roads. Midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Pacific Coast Highway, a visit to Hearst Castle is a bucket list road trip.
You have to be wealthy to build as payment for a gambling debt. That paved a path for son William Randolph Hearst into the media business after his expulsion from Harvard. Bill spun that into a media empire. Hearst owned dozens of newspapers and magazines, and it’s been said that during his lifetime, he had every U.S. president in his back pocket.
