Carmel-by-the-Sea outdoors playbooks

Carmel-by-the-Sea matched · also Big Sur

• 7 amCheck Highway 1 before you turn the key
• 7:45 amBixby Creek Bridge before the light is up
• 8:30 amPoint Sur Light Station from the road
• 9:15 amPfeiffer Big Sur is CLOSED — the morning you get instead
• 12 pmLunch at Nepenthe, on the terrace
• 2 pmMcWay Falls is CLOSED — turn round at Nepenthe instead
• 3:45 pmPfeiffer Beach, for the keyhole
• 6 pmA room at Post Ranch, and dinner at Sierra Mar

Carmel-by-the-Sea matched · also Monterey, Pebble Beach

• 9 amCoffee, then park at the Aquarium end of Cannery Row
• 10 amMonterey Bay Aquarium, at opening
• 1 pmThe 17-Mile Drive gate
• 1:30 pmLunch at the Bench, inside the gate
• 2:45 pmBird Rock, the Lone Cypress, Ghost Trees
• 4:15 pmCarmel-by-the-Sea on foot
• 6 pmCarmel Beach for sunset
• 7:30 pmDinner at Aubergine