Big Sur

East of Eden

Spring emerges at an orchard overlooking Fremont Peak in the Salinas Valley, CA. The Salinas Valley is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California. Located within Monterey County, it is west of the San Joaquin Valley and south of San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley—Silicon Valley. The Salinas Valley is also famously mentioned in many of John Steinbeck's novels, such as Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden.

Bixby

Bixby Creek Bridge, also known as Bixby Bridge, on the Big Sur coast of California, is one of the most photographed bridges in California due to its aesthetic design, "graceful architecture and magnificent setting". It is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge. The bridge is 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco and 13 miles (21 km) south of Carmel in Monterey County along State Route 1.

McWay Tidefall

McWay Falls is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. It is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly into the ocean, and one of only two in California, the other being Alamere Falls.

Lobos

Surf slams the rocks off Cannery Point at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. From two miles of the Pacific’s rugged coastline including ocean vistas and massive rocky outcroppings, to the scenic trails, majestic trees and the tiniest wildflower, it is the beauty and wealth of natural resources at Point Lobos that attracts people from all over the world. Long considered the “crown jewel” of California’s 280 state parks, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve is a magnet for nature lovers around the world. With its breathtaking beauty, fascinating wildlife and friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, Point Lobos is a place where one can experience nature at its best and explore this area's fascinating human history.

Pinnacle Point

From two miles of the Pacific’s rugged coastline including ocean vistas and massive rocky outcroppings, to the scenic trails, majestic trees and the tiniest wildflower, it is the beauty and wealth of natural resources at Point Lobos that attracts people from all over the world. Long considered the “crown jewel” of California’s 280 state parks, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve is a magnet for nature lovers around the world. With its breathtaking beauty, fascinating wildlife and friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, Point Lobos is a place where one can experience nature at its best and explore this area's fascinating human history.

Passage

Ocean, rock, and cypress trees meet one another at the outermost edges of Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. From two miles of the Pacific’s rugged coastline including ocean vistas and massive rocky outcroppings, to the scenic trails, majestic trees and the tiniest wildflower, it is the beauty and wealth of natural resources at Point Lobos that attracts people from all over the world. Long considered the “crown jewel” of California’s 280 state parks, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve is a magnet for nature lovers around the world. With its breathtaking beauty, fascinating wildlife and friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, Point Lobos is a place where one can experience nature at its best and explore this area's fascinating human history.

Reawakening

Much of Garrapata State Park was burned in the 2016 Soberanes Fire. Garrapata is a state park of California, USA, located on Highway 1 6.7 miles (10.8 km) south of Carmel and 18 miles (29 km) north of Big Sur on the Monterey coast. The park has 2 miles (3.2 km) of beachfront, with coastal hiking and a 50-foot (15 m) climb to a view of the Pacific. The park offers diverse coastal vegetation with trails running from ocean beaches into dense coast redwood groves. The park also features coastal headlands at Soberanes Point. California sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters frequent the coastal waters while gray whales pass close by during their yearly migration.

Garrapata Eventide

Much of Garrapata State Park was burned in the 2016 Soberanes Fire. Garrapata is a state park of California, USA, located on Highway 1 6.7 miles (10.8 km) south of Carmel and 18 miles (29 km) north of Big Sur on the Monterey coast. The park has 2 miles (3.2 km) of beachfront, with coastal hiking and a 50-foot (15 m) climb to a view of the Pacific. The park offers diverse coastal vegetation with trails running from ocean beaches into dense coast redwood groves. The park also features coastal headlands at Soberanes Point. California sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters frequent the coastal waters while gray whales pass close by during their yearly migration.

Garrapata Sunset

Carmel

Cypress trees and ocean are the backdrop in Carmel, CA.