Limekiln

Limekiln State Park, two miles south of Lucia. From 1887 to 1890 the Rockland Lime and Lumber Company quarried limestone here and burned it in four iron-and-stone kilns, which still stand at the end of the creek trail; barrels of lime rode a cable out to Rockland Cove and were loaded onto ships at the dog-hole port at the creek mouth. Three years exhausted both the limestone and the redwood used to fire the kilns. The 711-acre park was established in 1994 and holds the kilns, a redwood canyon, the 100-foot Limekiln Falls, and a beach. Mabel Plaskett called the walk up this creek ‘the most beautiful scenic walk in the world.’