Wyntoon, Private estate in McCloud, US

Wyntoon is a private estate on the McCloud River in Siskiyou County, California, with buildings by architects Willis Polk, Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan from 1899 onward. The main lodge has rough stone walls, a steep shingled roof with dormers and a tall chimney, and a projecting wooden section with a row of windows above the stone base.

Justin Sisson built a fishing resort on the McCloud River in the 1880s; his widow sold the site in 1899 to San Francisco attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler, who laid the cornerstone of a stone-and-slate hunting lodge designed by Willis Polk. Phoebe Hearst took a 99-year lease in 1900 and in 1901 had Bernard Maybeck design a Gothic castle, mainly complete in 1902 at a cost of $100,000. William Randolph Hearst bought Wyntoon outright in 1929 and added all of Wheeler Ranch in 1934.

The name was given by financial adviser Edward Clark for the local Wintun people, not for a mountain range. The Hearst castle was designed by Bernard Maybeck in the Gothic style of a Rhine River castle, with Julia Morgan assisting; it was mainly complete in 1902 and cost $100,000.

The estate spans a large forested area with limited public access, as it remains under private ownership. Visitors can only see the buildings from outside when driving along public roads nearby.

Willis Polk gave Wheeler's lodge a "fish tower": a high study with two windows that were aquariums holding local trout. A Latin inscription over the entrance, piscatoribus sacrum, marked the room as a temple to fishing.