Access is by permit or permission only, requiring entrance through locked gates. See the Preserve's website (above) for tours or access details.

From the Santa Lucia Preserve website: "The Santa Lucia Preserve lies along the California Coast in one of the world’s great ‘biodiversity hotspots,’ globally recognized as a place of exceptional ecological value. At the intersection of coastal and inland climate gradients, The Preserve contains a variety of habitats: maritime chaparral and coastal scrub, oak woodlands and coast redwood forests, grasslands and oak savannas, riparian areas and wetlands, streams, and ponds. Over 90% of The Preserve is permanently protected, allowing more than 300 wildlife species to use this magnificent land as a corridor from the mountains to the sea. "