Big Sur, United States Travel Blogs

A night under the big reds
Nov 4, 2008 (8 photos)

... awesome views of the crashing ocean and the steep cliffs running into the sea. We'd planned to spend the night in a little village called Big Sur among the giant redwoods and hopefully a chance to fit in a walk in the forest. Rain put a damper in that idea ...

Highway 1 - L.A. to San Francisco
Feb 1, 2009 (15 photos)

... See the video for a bit of what we saw.  Although we could have watched them all day we wanted to get some hiking in at Big Sur.  We stayed at the Big Sur Lodge in the heart of the area and home to endless hiking trails and stellar ocean views.  Unfortunately ...

Pacific Highway 1
Aug 28, 2003 (1 photos)

************************** Thursday 28th August Gutted about the camera but fortunately cousin Richy accidently downloaded all the photos onto his computer, so, we haven't lost them, also camera is insured, so don't feel so bad. Picked up Pacific ...

Monday 5 May
May 8, 2008 (7 photos)

... along the end of the wharf.   Our next stop was down the Pacific Highway into the Los Padres National Forest and the Big Sur Area.  This is probably one of the world's most scenic drives, up high along the cliff edge looking out onto the most ...

California Coast
Jun 4, 2009 (6 photos)

Big Sur, California Thursday, June 4th Sitting by a stream at a campground in Big Sur. Dappled sunlight, warm, quiet. Too many days to catch up on, better get started.... Our last full day in LA we had a good long walk on the wide wide clean clean ...

Anfang der Rundreise
Jun 15, 2009 (19 photos)

Big Sur
Jan 18, 2007 (23 photos)

... Tuesday morning to head down the I-1 which is the road which  has featured in numerous films and is known as the Big Sur. The scenery is dramatic as the road twists and turns around the mountains and ocean, over huge viaducts and tunnel passes. It ...

Binging on Burritos in Big Sur!
Apr 9, 2007 (5 photos)

... she would simultaneously pull over and stop on a sometimes postage-stamp piece of shoulder, so I could snap a few pictures. Big Sur appeals to every sense (except taste and the sixth), as the sights, smell, view, and touch are all excited within ...

Journey to Marina Dunes
Nov 14, 2008

25/10/08 - Journey to Marina Dunes

Gorda Springs - Tues, 7/21 - Updating Map
Jul 21, 2009

After three weeks on the road, I'm finally taking some time to figure out Travelpod. It's really a pretty simple site if you start out right and update each day. I've added several locations from the period 7/18 through 7/22 in order to update the map so ...

Road Trip
Nov 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... in Santa Cruz, which is a bit of a bohemian town (so had a good veggie restaurant) and headed for the coastal drive down 'Big Sur' the next day. It is a really spectacular drive - probably the most beautiful scenery we have seen on the trip so far. We ...

Big Sur - or should that be Big Smoke....
Jun 26, 2008

... few wrong roads trying to get out of here (Sacramento all over again!) but finally managed it.  As we got nearer to Big Sur the smoke got increasingly thicker, and when we got on Coastal Highway 1 at Monterey we discovered that the road was closed at ...

Big Sur
May 12, 2008 (45 photos)

Lots of photos of Big Sur!

Day One Ninety-Seven
May 11, 2005

Camping at Pfeiffer State Park

Big Sur!! Yes Sir!!
Feb 19, 2006 (9 photos)

... stinky as we discovered. Imagine musk, but much, much worse. The dramatic coastline is just beautiful, and we headed up to Big Sur amongst ominous clouds. The sunny shores of So Cal were retreating in our rearview mirror when the first rains we had seen ...

Southern Cal ! - Sur de California !
Jan 22, 2008

When people think of southern califnornia, they think of ocean, sun, sand, surf and hotties but the truth is that CA holds more than that. It's incredible nature goes beyond anything you can possibly imagine about any other state in the US, it's ...

Big Sur
May 24, 2005 (9 photos)

Alfie, Joel, Heidi and Myself headed down to Big Sur to meet up with a friend of Alfie's Villa. Stopped of for a few drinks and a bite to eat and to try the spring water. Here are a few photos we took on the way and that.

Big Sur
Jul 8, 2009 (6 photos)

... and cooking over campfires under the stars. When we finally left and headed south for LA, we stopped at a large elephant seal colony on the coast - very noisy and very smelly. The seals moved very quickly for such big beasts so we kept our distance.

Cruising the Coast of California
Sep 3, 2007 (35 photos)

... .  We had a little over one hour of stopping time - spread out between the many different vista points.  When we reached Big Sur - we then stopped to have lunch/dinner (As it was after 5 p.m. by the time we reached the restaurant).  There ...

West Coast Roadtrip - Big Sur
Jul 15, 2006 (7 photos)

... -four man tent! a few blow up sleeping beds.. we were all set! As we spent a leisurly time driving along the Big Sur path, we noted the abundance of campsites, although most were full. We finally stopped at a smallish campsite called Redwoods, which ...

Day 22
Mar 13, 2006 (5 photos)

Big Sur, CA to San Francisco, CA After awakening in Big Sur, I realized the coastline was still unsuitable for sea voyages and continued northward. On my way, I passed a spot called "Mavericks" were they are known to get 30 foot waves, this was surely no ...

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fireworks
Jul 4, 2009 (12 photos)

... up camp somewhere and return to said town for fireworks. Travel Tip #2:  Do not attempt to camp anywhere within 100 miles of Big Sur on the Fourth of July weekend. We enjoyed the drive up the coastline on Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway.  It ...

Big Sur - spectacular beauty
May 21, 2008 (12 photos)

... and early we headed to the Julia Pfeiffer Burns state park, located in the central portion of the rugged and legendary Big Sur coastline.  We started off with the Ewoldsen/Canyon trail described as a 4.5miles round-trip; a moderate to strenuous ...

Haloween to Thanksgiving
Nov 22, 2007 (40 photos)

... read about 6 already in the last 3 weeks about 5 more than I have managed to read in the last 3 years. After 3 nights at Big Sur we head North again to find a spot for 2 nights before we head to Justin and Shars new house in Lafayette. They will ...

Cayucos & Big Sur
Dec 13, 2007 (25 photos)

Cayucos & Big Sur

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Big Sur (Day 36)
Oct 22, 2008 (8 photos)

... 22 After our day off at Andrew Molera State park, we started the day out with a ride into the "town" of Big Sur.  The grocceries were ridiculously expensive, but we finally sent Brian's panniers back and energized with some breakfast burritos while ...

Bye Bye Carmel, Hello Big Sur
May 20, 2009 (15 photos)

... headed back up to the Napenthe restaurant for dinner.  We'd been told (via forums) that this was the best place along the Big Sur highway to get something to eat.  It's also one of the pricier places.  We ended up with their hamburgers, ...

Beautiful Big Sur
Jan 16, 2009 (11 photos)

... a line of traffic. Road works; still it gave us a chance to enjoy the view. We arrived into the 'main' Pfeiffer Big Sur area - (there really isn't one but with the Pfeiffer beach nearby, along with the State park and more then one accommodation choice ...

Day 26 - Elephants On The Beach?
Jun 13, 2008 (20 photos)

... some scary looking bridges constructed in the 1930's (!!) the landscape and the weather changed again as we entered the Redwood forests of Big Sur. We eventually managed to get into one of the State Parks to camp overnight in their "en-route" section. ...