This sprawling California beach is one of the best spots in Big Sur for surfing, tide pooling, and hiking, and takes just a quick 0.3-mile hike to reach.

There’s a certain kind of quiet thrill that comes from rounding a curve on California’s Highway 1 and seeing the Pacific stretch endlessly beside you. That moment, when the wind-whipped cliffs, the ...

MONTEREY, Calif., June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- California's most iconic road trip just got easier to plan with the launch of ' HOW 2 HWY 1 ', an initiative designed to help travelers navigate the ...

Big Sur might get all the attention, but keep driving south and you’ll hit Highway 1’s best-kept secret, San Luis Obispo County. Here, road-trippers can ride Clydesdales through rolling hills, tour ...

Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end. Especially when that dead end is surrounded by crashing surf on empty beaches, dramatic cliffs and lonely trails through forests thick with redwoods ...

Another year, another summer of the same closure on Highway 1 near Big Sur, meaning you still can’t drive all the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles along this iconic stretch of California coast.

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long the Big Sur coast, residents coexist with certain facts of life: a landscape of unparalleled beauty, tourist traffic, spotty cellphone and internet service — and slides that will shut down ...

A road linking Highway 1 and Highway 101 through the Santa Lucia Range in Big Sur reopened Friday after being closed since January 2021. Nacimiento-Fergusson Road extends about 25 miles from near Mill ...

LOS ANGELES — Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end. Especially when that dead end is surrounded by crashing surf on empty beaches, dramatic cliffs and lonely trails through forests thick ...