SUn RANCh, BYRON BAy
Sun Ranch feels like a sun-bleached slice of 1970s California ranch country, dropped into the green hinterland behind Byron instead of the Santa Ynez hills. A 25-metre basalt pool anchors the property, framed by timber barns, wide verandas and a cowboy bar that hums into the night once the sun goes down. It's designed for full buyouts rather than day trips, six barns and four private pool suites sleeping up to 34 overnight guests, with room for up to 150 across the wider property for the celebration itself, so the whole ranch is exclusively yours for the weekend. There's nothing else on this coast that pairs that much golden-hour glamour with quite so much personality