Montecito

The village east of Santa Barbara – Coast Village Road's shops, Butterfly and Miramar beaches below, lanes of estates climbing into the foothills – with two of the three hotels, one on the sand and one up San Ysidro Creek.

Golden hour over Montecito

The collection

2 hotels

Rosewood Miramar Beach

Five-star · Montecito

Rick Caruso's 2019 resort on the site of the 1889 Miramar Hotel – a manor house, bungalows and a beach house whose terrace suites open straight onto the sand.

From $1,300 per night

San Ysidro Ranch

Four-star · Montecito

Montecito's 1893 guest ranch up San Ysidro Creek – thirty-eight cottages with private hot tubs, every meal included, and a guest book that runs from Churchill to the Kennedys.

From $3,000 per night

The neighborhoods

Ojai Valley

A citrus valley thirty-five miles inland in Ventura County, ringed by the Los Padres National Forest and known for the pink light on its mountains at sunset – forty-five minutes from Montecito, and a world apart.

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