Pacific Coast Highway: San Francisco to Los Angeles
🚗12 mapped stops
California's legendary coastal highway — 380 miles of sea cliffs, redwood groves, and Pacific sunsets. One of the most beautiful drives on Earth, threading between mountains and ocean along Highway 1.
Paradas Neste Passeio (12)
- 1 Golden Gate Bridge — Vista Point The journey begins at the most photographed bridge in the world. The 1937 Art Deco masterpiece spans 1.7 miles of the Golden Gate strait.
- 2 Devil's Slide — Pacifica The coastal cliffs south of San Francisco plunge into the Pacific. The old highway clung to these unstable cliffs before the Tom Lantos Tunnels opened in 2013.
- 3 Half Moon Bay Pumpkin capital of the world and home to Mavericks, where 60-foot waves draw the world's bravest surfers each winter.
- 4 Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk California's oldest surviving amusement park. The 1924 Giant Dipper wooden roller coaster is a National Historic Landmark.
- 5 Monterey — Cannery Row John Steinbeck's literary landscape transformed from sardine-packing plants to waterfront restaurants and the world-class Monterey Bay Aquarium.
- 6 17-Mile Drive — Lone Cypress The iconic wind-sculpted Monterey cypress has clung to its granite outcrop above the Pacific for over 250 years.
- 7 Big Sur — Bixby Creek Bridge The most photographed bridge in California arcs 260 feet above a canyon where the Santa Lucia Mountains meet the sea.
- 8 McWay Falls — Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park An 80-foot waterfall drops directly onto a pristine beach — one of only two tidefall waterfalls on the California coast.
- 9 Elephant Seal Rookery — Piedras Blancas Thousands of elephant seals haul out on this beach year-round. During breeding season, two-ton males battle for dominance just yards from the highway.
- 10 Hearst Castle — San Simeon William Randolph Hearst's 165-room hilltop palace inspired Citizen Kane. The Neptune Pool alone contains 345,000 gallons of water.
- 11 Morro Bay — Morro Rock A 576-foot volcanic plug rises from the harbor — the last of the Nine Sisters, a chain of ancient volcanic peaks.
- 12 Pismo Beach Famous for its clam chowder and the Monarch butterfly grove where tens of thousands cluster in the eucalyptus trees each winter.
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