California is one of our nation's most special treasures, from its deserts, graceful beaches and magnificent rugged coast to the lush, pastoral, legendary hills and valleys with their incredible animal and plant life. Another of California's resources is the diverse history, embracing the cultures of the past. Only here are so many historic variations of western cultures still represented and active.

Over the next few years, the Heritage Discovery Center will develop and expand into an historical period park. Currently there is a “Living History Museum”, in addition to a Conservation and Preservation program for fifty-five rare old-world Spanish Colonial horses that are descendents from the Missionaries' (Fr. Kino's) original herd. The HDC presents experiences and visions of diverse cultures, with emphasis on historical developments in natural environments, thus creating a ‘living history museum’ of the Natural and Cultural Colonial California heritage.

The park will be providing many interpretive programs and exhibits to educate the public about the diverse and vast western colonial heritage and the important role that the Spanish and their equestrian skills played in (conjunction with the Native Americans and indigenous Mexican people). Within that hundred year timeline that became known as the exquisite supreme “Vaquero” and “Buckaroo” period, the genesis of the west was developing into the largest Arigcultural, Farming, Equine, Ranching, Wine industries in the world. The California Colonial Spanish park site plans to have about eleven sections to reflect the early California period.

The facility will host international tour groups, youth groups, schools and universities, individuals, and historians. We want to give visitors the experience of feeling what life was like in the days when horses were an important part of every day survival in early California through the establishment and maintenance of a historical educational 'living history museum,' and a colonial working ranch.