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Attractions near Lake Nacimiento

Leave Lake Nacimiento for Hearst Castle, 17 mi away

Lake Nacimiento’s list takes in 6 museums, 2 state parks and 2 landmarks. The town has no place on our list of its own; 13 are within 40 miles. Day-trippers head 50 mi out to Pinnacles National Park.

Attractions nearby
19
within 60 miles
The big one
17 mi
Hearst Castle
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
State park · 17 mi west

Hearst Castle

National Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark located on the Central Coast of California, United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

The lie of the land

To the south is where most of the 13 lie.

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Orange: Lake Nacimiento. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Place after place

These 19 are all within 60 miles.

Hearst Castle

State park · 17 mi west · read 255K times a year on Wikipedia

National Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark located on the Central Coast of California, United States.

Towns near it → · Wikipedia

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Lake Nacimiento → · Lake Nacimiento’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Hearst Castle: No machine-readable author provided. Urban~commonswiki assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pinnacles National Park: Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Hunter Liggett: Binksternet, Public domain · McWay Falls: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa: Stephen Lea, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission San Miguel Arcángel: Jsweida, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park: Wordydave, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Anderson Canyon: Wattssw, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Montaña de Oro State Park: BorisFromStockdale, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad: The original uploader was Lordkinbote at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dana Adobe: Ken Figlioli, CC BY-SA 2.0 · San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum: SLOGlen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Morro Bay Maritime Museum: Hu Nhu, CC0 · Morro Bay State Park Museum of Natural History: Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0 · San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden: Kevin Cole from Pacific Coast, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Leaning Pine Arboretum: Daderot, CC0

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