Phase One: The Staging Area Ranch Lodge Resort, to be built on a 28-acre site just below the Hearst Castle visitor center, featuring a 225-room lodge; restaurants, coffee shop and meeting rooms; retail shops offering gifts, art reflecting the coastal region, and specialty items inspired by the Hearst Castle, and a 100-bed youth hostel or a 50-site wilderness campground.
Phase Two: The San Simeon Village Resort, to be built on three acres at Old San Simeon Village, where the existing William Randolph Hearst Memorial Park public beach and marina is located, a gift to the county by Hearst in the mid-1950’s. It features a 50-room ranch inn resort; and restaurants, galleries and specialty boutiques in a festive retail setting.
Phase Three: San Simeon Golf Resort, to be built within a 248-acre area nearby Old San Simeon Village, within an easy stroll of trails and vistas on San Simeon Point. Under recent amendments approved by the County, the Point itself will be further protected. Phase three features a 250-room resort hotel, a public golf course and club house, restaurants and meeting rooms, and public trails on San Simeon Point.
Phase Four: Pine Forest Lodge and Equestrian Resort, to be built on 50 acres at the south end of the Hearst Ranch, adjacent to Pico Creek and the community of San Simeon Acres, featuring a 125-room western style resort with equestrian facilities, restaurants, stables and riding trails. The four-phase plan involves only 350 acres of the vast 77,000-acre Hearst Ranch. “The plan represents less than one half of one percent of the total Hearst acreage, and is dedicated exclusively to visitor service facilities, not housing or outside commercial development,” says Philip M. Battaglia, who has been Hearst’s representative for move than 20 years.