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San Simeon California Map

Explore San Simeon, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of San Simeon, California

How to Use This San Simeon, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for San Simeon, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to San Simeon.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	San Simeon
State	California (CA)
County	San Luis Obispo County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	35.618206
Longitude	-121.137438
Population	445
Density	215.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93452
Area Code	805
County Seat	San Luis Obispo
School District	Coast Unified School District

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About San Simeon, California

San Simeon is a locality in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 445. The population density is 215.6 people per km². San Simeon is located at 35.6182°N, 121.1374°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93452.

San Simeon anchors the ragged edge of the continent where the Arroyo del Puerto spills its meager, seasonal burden into the salt-heavy air of the Pacific Ocean. It lies 27.1 miles northwest of Morro Bay, CA (from Morro Bay, CA: bearing 315°T), and is situated 8.3 miles northwest of Cambria. This landscape is defined by the persistent push and pull of the tides against a shoreline that feels perpetually unfinished, raw with the brine of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Inland, the terrain rises into tawny, sun-bleached slopes that suggest the immense, distant presence of the Coast Ranges, though here the earth is marked more intimately by the moisture of the sea. Three Troughs Falls hides within the creases of the nearby hills, a fleeting pulse of water that mirrors the quiet, rhythmic cycle of the fog as it drifts over the land, softening the sharp edges of the coastal scrub before retreating into the gray expanse of the morning.

San Simeon carries the weight of a singular architectural ambition that once drew the world to these lonely, windswept bluffs, turning a quiet stretch of coastline into an improbable stage for opulence. The local economy persists in a delicate tension between the preservation of these historic legacies and the slow, steady pulse of wildlife tourism, where visitors gather to watch the shifting fortunes of the sea. While Long Canyon provides a sheltered passage for the wind to funnel toward the interior, the rhythm of daily life remains tethered to the water, far removed from the bustling agricultural plains of the distant Central Valley. Life in San Simeon moves with the deliberate pace of the tides, a place where the grandeur of the past is periodically punctuated by the distant, mournful calls of marine life echoing off the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hearst San Simeon State Park (State Park) — 0.6 mi, 200° S
Cambria State Marine Conservation Area (Marine Protected Area) — 0.7 mi, 229° SW
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 0.7 mi, 236° SW · 8,946 acres
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 0.7 mi, 228° SW
Zebra Viewing Area (Attraction) — 0.9 mi, 172° S
Vista Points (Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 281° W
Vista Pt (Viewpoint) — 1.5 mi, 300° NW
National Geographic Theater (Cinema) — 3.5 mi, 310° NW
Caprice (Gallery) — 4.1 mi, 148° SE
Nit Wit Ridge (Attraction) — 4.1 mi, 147° SE
The Pewter Plough Playhouse (Arts Centre) — 4.2 mi, 149° SE
Cambria Pines Ecological Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 128° SE
Fiscalini Ranch Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 155° SE
Cambria Historical Museum (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 141° SE
Sculptures of the Goddess Sekhmet (Public Artwork) — 4.9 mi, 339° N
Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Site (Attraction) — 5.2 mi, 152° SE
Nacimiento County Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 8.2 mi, 046° NE
South Shore Nacimiento Lake (Attraction) — 10.1 mi, 032° NE
Harmony Headlands State Park (State Park) — 11.6 mi, 144° SE
Los Padres National Forest (National Forest) — 12.4 mi, 348° N · 1.8M acres
Silver Peak Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 12.4 mi, 348° N · 31k acres
Sur Sur Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 14.4 mi, 321° NW · 1,827 acres
Morro Rock California Registered Historical Landmark (Monument) — 23.0 mi, 138° SE
Nuestra Senora de Esperanza Landing historical marker (Monument) — 23.0 mi, 137° SE
Landing of the First Filipinos (Monument) — 23.1 mi, 137° SE
Morro Bay Skateboard Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 138° SE
Morro Bay National Estuary Program (Nature Reserve) — 23.8 mi, 138° SE
Morro Bay Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 25.0 mi, 139° SE
Park Cinemas (Cinema) — 25.2 mi, 089° E
Indian Grinding Rock (Historic Ruins) — 25.3 mi, 136° SE

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