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The Sea Ranch

The Sea Ranch

A planned unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, famous for its distinctive modernist architecture

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  • Chris Mueller
    Chris MuellerFirst to rec

    “Is it possible to overstate how beautiful this place is? Our favorites (members-only):”

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  • Anisha
    Anisha

    “Sea Ranch! There’s something so otherworldly and beautiful about the way the modern but natural design mandates make the community blend into the coastline”

    212
  • Patrick
    Patrick

    “There’s nowhere quite like Sea Ranch. This stretch of the Sonoma coast was planned in the 1960s around a simple, radical idea. To live lightly on the land. The cedar shingle houses still look like they grew straight out of the bluffs. Days move more slowly here. Fog rolls in off the Pacific, cypress hedgerows lean sideways from decades of wind, and the ocean never stops working the rocks along the coast. I brought along my new Ricoh GR IV to see how it would perform, and it did not disappoint. Grainy, quiet, and picturesque across the board. A few of my favorite frames are below.”

    4
  • A L E X I S
    A L E X I S

    “radical community”

    2

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