Palo Corona Regional Park

Stunning Open Spaces for Walking, Hiking, and Wildlife

Palo Corona Regional Park is one of Central Coast California’s most significant undeveloped open spaces. The Park stretches nearly 10 miles across over 4,500 sprawling acres of rugged, spectacular land, including an extraordinary mix of ecosystems, wildlife species, and hiking trails.

The Park established a critical environmental link in a protected seventy-mile-long wildland corridor that begins at the Carmel River and extends southward to the Hearst Ranch in San Luis Obispo County. The Park includes the headwaters of thirteen watersheds and protects significant habitat areas, wildlife corridors, wildlife, and endangered species. The new trail could connect Palo Corona via a causeway underneath Hwy 1.