Corral de Tierra (Spanish for "Pen of Earth") is an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California.

It is part of the DeAnza Trail, a route that once linked all of California’s mission settlements during the Spanish Colonial era.

Many of these trips are generated by 13,500 residents who now live in the Toro Park, San Benancio and Corral de Tierra districts.

In their youth, Steinbeck and his sister, Mary, played at the base of Castle Rock, the "fence of earth" giving Corral de Tierra its Spanish name.

[6] The beautiful valley between Monterey and Salinas, granted by Governor Guiterrez to Francisco Figueroa in 1836, inspired Steinbeck’s short stories and California-based novels.