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Big
Sur campgrounds
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Great
variety of private and public campgrounds
abound in Big Sur. Rustic and primitive sites
in the back country, to convenient drive in
sites with swimming and showers. Listed here
North to South.
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Big
Sur Coast Trail
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Big Sur's
magnificent coast has long been part of a
dream for a hiking trail. More than 30 years
ago, the voters of California created the
Coastal Act which specified a trail be
created for people to learn and enjoy the
California Coast.
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Big
Sur Condors
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Carole and Phil, original PelicanNetwork
members, are pioneers of the Friends of the
Elephant Seal docent program, and authors of
Elephant Seals.
These condors are part of the
re-introduction program managed by the
Ventana
Wilderness Society
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Bixby
Bridge
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The Bixby Creek Bridge of Highway 1 is
California's favorite coastal bridge. The
bridge is technically sound, but more than
being thoughtfully planned and well
constructed; it is socially purposeful and
symbolically important to its travelers.
Building the bridge and Highway 1 were
important public works projects which brought
relief to California's unemployed during the
Great Depression, and which today connects
travelers though this dramatic coastal
region. -from the paper, On the Bridge, by
Sean Vitousek
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Big
Sur Gallery
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A big collection of
natural highlights of Big Sur country. - with
links to Pelican Network web
pages.
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Big
Sur Coastal
Trail Guide
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Good
trails and spectacular country.
Wondrous
scenery and amazing biodiversity in the Santa
Lucia Mountains along the coast make Big Sur
a treasure of nature.
Not as
high, but steeper than the Sierra, and more
diverse. Big Sur and the Ventana Wilderness
offer challenges. The broad biodiversity,
newborn geology, and the closeness of the
ocean all combine to engage your senses in
unexpected ways
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Big
Sur Lodge
Where
Nature becomes part of you
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Big Sur
Lodge is a great place to stay for exploring
and enjoying all the wild beauty and nature
of the Central Coast.
Represented
by PelicanNetwork
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a cultural and natural history conservation
advocacy
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Big
Sur Hikes
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Point Lobos, Garrapata, Molera, Pfeiffer,
Julia Pfeiffer Burns
Trail highlights, photos, maps and
narratives.
Wondrous scenery and
amazing bio diversity in the Santa Lucia
Mountains along the coast make Big Sur a
treasure of nature.
Now that you are here,
let's hike!
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Big
Sur Road
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Log for the whole coast road Carmel to San
Simeon and San Simeon to Carmel
How to
get to the Big Sur Lodge from the North and
South of the most exciting and beautiful 90
highway miles in the world - California
Highway One - Carmel to San Simeon or visa
versa
More
than 3 million visitors a year travel this
road. This guide will show the highlights and
mark the mileposts.
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Big
Sur Tours Day
Trips in Nature and Culture
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Big
Sur Redwoods Preservation
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Coastal
Redwoods in their southern habitat are
distinct and in dangerl. Evolving uniquely in
rare geologic conditions, making a rainforest
in what would be a desert, these redwoods
have always had steep challenges. But now,
because of poor forest management, they are
deeply threatened by fire.
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Big Sur
Hotels
and Inns
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There
are many great places to stay in Big Sur - we
recommend the Big Sur Lodge as it is the best
setting for hiking and the natural wonders of
Big Sur, and it is the best value. But there
are many other accommodations which are very
gratifying places to stay.
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Big
Sur Indians in South Coast and San Antonio
Valley
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Salinans
thrived in the San Antonio Valley. At the
time of the Europeans arrival in 1769, there
were about 3,000 Salinans living in San
Antonio Valley. They conducted agriculture,
traded commercially with coastal tribes and
populations in the Central Valley.
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big
sur story Big
Sur Story
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Big
Sur appears smooth, seductive. Yet seems
forbidding, distant, and
haunting.
Big
Sur Introduction and Story
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Don't
bomb Big Sur - letters to the U.S. Navy - The Bib Sur
Wall of Conscience
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Getting
Around Big Sur
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Highway
One in Big Sur story
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This
road exposes us to one of the world's boldest
displays of nature, where the precocious
Santa Lucia Mountains rise out of the Pacific
Ocean.
"Here sea
and land consorted, the seeping moisture in
each fold of the mountain range emerged and
slipped musically into the shifting
continents of kelp. The conflict and change
was a natural interplay in the balance of
life. Then came the road."
Margaret
Wentworth Owings
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Julia
Pfeiffer Burns State Park
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Within the park are
idyllic trails, waterfalls, underwater parks,
historical gems, riparian hardwood forests,
mystic redwood groves with ancient growth
trees, and deliriously beautiful
scenery.
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Molera -
Andrew Molera State Park
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Molera
State Park is a mostly wide open, wind-swept
canvas where the Big Sur River runs wild to
the sea.
Seven
and a half square miles of wilderness, 21
miles south of Carmel, along the ocean, into
the mountains, and complete with a wild and
scenic river - Andrew Molera State Park is a
great favorite for outdoor
enthusiasts.
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Point
Lobos State Reserve
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Its
rare beauty and unique biology has made it a
symbol of California Parks and the Monterey
Bay National Marine Sanctuary
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