Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve

University of California Santa Barbara

Visiting Rancho Marino

Reserve Use / Make A Reservation

Does your proposed reserve use involve research, education or public service? If so, then day use (free) and overnight use (fee) of the reserve facilities are permitted. To visit Rancho Marino Reserve or one of the other UCNRS reserves, each group, project, or person must:

  1. Complete an online Application for your proposed Rancho Marino Reserve use. If you don’t already have an account, you’ll need to set one up.
  2. Then, submit a Reservation for each visit. Be sure to keep clicking “Next” until you are completely done! You will be told that you have successfully submitted a Reservation. Feel free to contact the Station Manager to discuss your plans, or if you have questions.
  3. Once your Reservation is approved by the Station Manager, you will (usually) receive a confirmation e-mail. If not, contact the Reserve Manager to be sure.
  4. Agree to complete, and sign a waiver form and photo release for each visitor (English and Spanish versions available). Deliver signed waivers to Station Manager prior to or upon arrival.
  5. Researchers should submit metadata, and provide credit to the “UCSB – Rancho Marino Reserve” in publications resulting from their visit(s).
  6. Sit through a Rancho Marino Reserve orientation talk by the Station Manager.
  7. Need more help?

Application

Once your application has been approved, you must make advanced reservations to visit the reserve through RAMS and receive staff approval for your visit.  Multiple visits can be requested at one time.

Apply your application now

Rates

Since Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve is administered by the University of California the rates for UC affiliated personnel are slightly discounted.  The following table shows the current rates as of 2022.

UC Affiliated Rates

Day Use: $0
Camping per person per night $5
Bed in the modular home per person per night $17
Meeting area per day per group $20
Reserve Director’s hourly time $66
Reserve Stewart’s hourly time $21
Tent Cabin $10

Non-UC Rates

Day Use: $0
Camping per person per night $7.93
Bed in the modular home per person per night $26.95
Meeting area per day per group $31.37
Reserve Director’s hourly time $104.61
Reserve Stewart’s hourly time $33.59
Tent Cabin $15.85

Continuation of Visit

The focus of Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve is research and university level education.  The reserve is dedicated to those missions and other use is very limited.  

While on the reserve please follow the following rules and regulations

  • Do Not – smoke, bring your family dog, collect anything on the reserve without permission, hunt or ride mountain bikes on the reserve.
  • Do Not – disturb reserve residents, livestock or experiments
  • Do – keep vehicles on roads and less than 10 MPH.  The reserve is limited to 8 cars at any one time, so plan on carpools.
  • Do – leave gates as you find them (e.g., if closed and locked, close and lock it after passing)
  • Do – check in and out with reserve staff.