Today I hiked around the King Gillette Ranch. What a spread -- SoCal living for the early 20th century ultra-rich! It is now a state park and right down the road from home. (The top pic shows just a tiny bit of the total property, bounded by Mulholland Hwy which you can see about 1/3rd of the way down from the top.)
One of the most stunning locales in the Santa Monica Mountains, 588-acre King Gillette Ranch is situated in the heart of the Malibu Creek Watershed, by the confluence of five major tributaries, and adjacent to Malibu Creek State Park. This scenic parkland at the lower end of the Las Virgenes Valley is a haven for larger mammals of the Santa Monica Mountains. At the same time, it offers a rare unspoiled view of California’s rich archeological, cultural, and historic resources, including a Chumash settlement, and nationally significant structures designed for razor magnate King C. Gillette in the 1920’s by Wallace Neff, architect of California’s Golden Age. (Quoted from web site).