$70M Undeveloped Oceanfront Ranch
Naples is the city that was never built. Just northwest of Santa Barbara along the Gaviota Coast, the 1,000-acre oceanfront property known as Naples Ranch has been mostly undeveloped for over a century, the result of economic cycles, land constraints, and sustained community resistance. The land has a history stretching back thousands of years, first as Chumash territory, then as a planned coastal city mapped out in 1888 that never materialized, and later as working cattle ranch. Today it spans one mile of ocean frontage, an 18-acre bass fishing lake, access to the famous Naples surf break and reef, and more than 220 legal parcels. Explorer Juan Cabrillo made first contact with the Santa Barbara region here in 1542. Private surf sessions, horseback trails, conservation, or generational stewardship — the land is rare enough that the vision is entirely up to whoever comes next.
