Beautiful San Simeon California is located 5 minutes from Hearst Castle on scenic Hwy 1.Hearst Castle is a historic tourist attraction deeded to the State of California and tours run daily on buses that will drive you up to this amazing piece of San Simeon real estate. It was built by William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper and magazine baron in the early 1900's. William Hearst lavished the Castle with many antiques, art, and entire rooms brought from the great houses of Europe. This is definately a site to behold on the Central Coast of California.San Simeon is also well known for the elephant seal sanctuary, the Piedras Blancas rookery seven miles North of San Simeon. elephant seals, once almost extinct can be found year round here. This location is home to about 15,000 elephant seals wh... 05/11/2007