Beautiful rehabilitated gardens are the highlight of this unusual state park, 4 miles southwest of town on Cape Arago Hwy. Louis Simpson, an important shipping and lumber magnate, was exploring for new stands of lumber in 1905 when he discovered this wildly eroded headland. After buying up the 320 acres for $4000 he built a three-story mansion here, complete with formal gardens. It burned down in 1921. A trail leads to a glass-protected observation building on the cliffs where the mansion once stood, and then continues on to the beach.
