How much land is developed on Catalina Island?
Most of the 76-square-mile Catalina Island is a park, forever barred from development. In 1975, the Wrigley family transferred 85 percent of the island to the Santa Catalina Island Conservancy, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and protecting the open spaces, wild lands and nature preserves. That means that what’s wild in Catalina today will remain wild.