San Simeon State Park – Cambria CA

City:
Cambria, CA

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Description

Along with a temporary camp, the CCC built service roads, a new entrance road, an entrance gate, staff residence, and campgrounds and day-use picnic facilities.

Source notes

Joseph H. Engbeck, Jr., "By the People, For the People: The Work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in California State Parks, 1933-1941" (Sacramento: California State Parks, 2002), p. 96. Online submission by Douglas Dodd

Location Info

San Simeon State Park
Cambria, CA San Luis Obispo County

Location notes:

Coordinates: 35.593556, -121.11788

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