Paige Porter Fischer

The Pacific Coast Highway may be one of the most traveled, most photographed roads in the country, but Big Sur hasn’t changed all that much in the decades since Highway 1 was built into its rugged cliffs. That’s exactly the way the locals like it. This sparsely populated region, which stretches roughly from Carmel to San Simeon, is known for its dramatic landscape, where the Santa Lucia Mountains cascade into the Pacific Ocean, redwoods carpet the valley floor, and the serpentine highway seems to hold onto the mountainsides for dear life. Many people choose to drive through Big Sur and […]