SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – San Luis Obispo County Fire Department is responding to a fully engulfed motor home fire in the 500 block of San Simeon-Monterrey Creek Road Monday evening.

The project to repair the Moonstone Beach Boardwalk at Hearst San Simeon State Park began Thursday, according to a press release sent by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. The much ...

Controlled burns to reduce wildfire threats at Hearst San Simeon, Morro Bay, and Montaña de Oro State Parks are set to begin Apr. 20 through May 19, according to California State Parks.

The Hearst Castle Visitor Center receives 660,000 visitors a year, while the nearby San Simeon campground receives 83,000.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation is scheduling a prescribed burning at Montaña de Oro and Hearst San Simeon State Parks from Monday, April 25 through Friday, May 6.

The Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle, in San Simeon, Calif. Hearst Castle, built by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst and located on California's Central Coast, was constructed between the ...

Yet for all its conglomerate splendors, San Simeon was considered a white elephant after Hearst died. The University of California politely refused it as a gift, and only reluctantly in 1957 did ...

The showers at D.L. Bliss, San Simeon and Portola Redwoods State Park also are shut down. Each park relies on a local water supply, and in some cases, that’s a creek or spring.