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Big Sur The Big Sur Coast The Big Sur Coast Map of Big Sur Map of Big Sur Big Sur is positioned in California Big Sur - Big Sur Big Sur is a lightly populated, unincorporated region on California's Central Coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean.
As the "longest and most scenic stretch of undeveloped coastline in the [contiguous] United States." It has been described as a "national treasure that demands extraordinary procedures to protect it from development," and "one of the most beautiful coastlines anywhere in the world, an isolated stretch of road, mythic in reputation." Big Sur's Cone Peak at 5,155 feet (1,571 m) is only 3 miles (5 km) from the ocean. The stunning views make Big Sur a prominent tourist destination.
The region is protected by the Big Sur Local Coastal Program which preserves the region as "open space, a small residentiary community, and agricultural ranching." Approved in 1981, it is one of the most restrictive small-town use programs in the state, and is widely regarded as one of the most restrictive documents of its kind anywhere. The program protects viewsheds from the highway and many vantage points, and restricts the density of evolution to one unit per acre in tourist areas or one dwelling per 10 acres (4.0 ha) in the far south.
When the region was ceded by Mexico to the US in 1848, it was the United States' "last frontier." The region remained one of the most isolated areas of California and the United States until, after 18 years of construction, the Carmel San Simeon Highway was instead of in 1937.
The region does not have specific boundaries, but is generally considered to include the 76 miles (122 km) segment of California State Route 1 from Carmel River south to San Carpoforo Creek near San Simeon and the entire Santa Lucia range between the rivers. The interior region is uninhabited, while the coast remains mostly isolated and sparsely populated with about 1,000 year-round inhabitants and mostly several visitor accommodations.
The initial Spanish-language name for the unexplored mountainous terrain south of Monterey, the capital of Alta California, was "el pais grande del sur" meaning, "the big nation of the south." It was Anglicized by English-speaking pioneer as Big Sur.
8 Big Sur territory use 9.1 Big Sur Folk Festival 9.2 Big Sur International Marathon Big Sur is not an incorporated town, but an region without formal boundaries on the Central Coast of California. The boundaries of the region have gradually period north and south over time.
Esther Pfeiffer Ewoldson, who was born in 1904 and was a granddaughter of Big Sur pioneers Micheal and Barbara Pfeiffer, wrote that the region extended from the Little Sur River 23 miles (37 km) south to Slates Hot Springs.
Members of the Harlen family who homesteaded the Lucia region 9 miles (14 km) south of Slates Hot Springs, said that Big Sur was "miles and miles to the north of us.":6 Prior to the assembly of Highway 1, the inhabitants on the south coast had little contact with the inhabitants to the north of them. Later on the northern border was extended as far north as Malpaso Creek, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Carmel River.
Because the vast majority of visitors only see Big Sur's dramatic coastline, some consider the easterly border of Big Sur to be the coastal flanks of the Santa Lucia Mountains, only 3 to 12 miles (5 to 19 km) inland. Visitors sometimes mistakenly believe that Big Sur refers to the small improve of buildings and services near Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, known to locals as Big Sur Village. Author and Big Sur historian Jeff Norman considered Big Sur to extend inland to include the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean. Others include the vast inland areas comprising the Los Padres National Forest, Ventana Wilderness, Silver Peak Wilderness, and Fort Hunter Liggett about 20 miles (30 km) inland to the easterly foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains. Big Sur: rocky coast, fog and enormous kelp.
The Portola expedition who first explored the Spanish colony of Alta California were forced to bypass the inaccessible coast and travel around the region, inland through the San Antonio and Salinas Valleys before arriving at Monterey Bay, where they established Monterey and titled it their capital. They referred to the vast, mostly unexplored, coastal region to the south as el pais grande del sur, meaning "the big nation of the south".
This was often shortened to el sur grande. Other sources report that the region was simply called "el sur" (the south), and the two primary rivers El Rio Grande del Sur and El Rio Chiquito del Sur.:7 to use the name Big Sur, and the rubber stamp was returned in 1915, cementing the name in place.:8:7 Big Sur Coast looking north towards Bixby Creek Bridge The coast is the "longest and most scenic stretch of undeveloped coastline in the [contiguous] United States." The Big Sur region has been described as a "national treasure that demands extraordinary procedures to protect it from development." The New York Times described it as "one of the most stunning meetings of territory and sea in the world." The Washington Times described it as "one of the most beautiful coastlines anywhere in the world, an isolated stretch of road, mythic in reputation." The section of Highway 1 running through Big Sur is widely considered as one of the most scenic driving routes in the United States, if not the world. The views are one reason that Big Sur was ranked second among all United States destinations in Trip - Advisor's 2008 Travelers' Choice Destination Awards. The Big Sur coast has thriving as inhabitants notable bohemian writers and artists including Robinson Jeffers, Henry Miller, Edward Weston, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S.
Henry Miller said, "Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look." Novelist Herbert Gold described Big Sur as "one of the grand American retreats for those who nourish themselves with wilderness." The Big Sur Local Coastal Program, allowed by Monterey County Supervisors in 1981, states the region is meant to be an experience that visitors transit through, not a destination.
Bixby Creek Bridge, shown here looking southwest, is a prominent attraction in Big Sur Although some Big Sur inhabitants catered to adventurous travelers in the early twentieth century,:10 the undivided tourist economy began when Highway 1 opened the region to automobiles in 1937, but only took off after World War II-era gasoline rationing ended in the mid-1940s.
In 1978, about 1.5 million visitors are estimated to have visited the Big Sur Coast. Most of the 3 to 4 million tourists who presently visit Big Sur each year never leave Highway 1, because the adjoining Santa Lucia Range is one of the biggest roadless areas near a coast in the adjoining United States.
Besides sightseeing from the highway, Big Sur offers hiking, mountain climbing, and other outside activities.
Big Sur also is the locale of a Catholic monastery, the New Camaldoli Hermitage.
The Hermitage in Big Sur was established in 1957. Historic menu cover from Nepenthe restaurant, a Big Sur icon since 1949. Mc - Way Falls and Cove, Big Sur There are a several small, scenic beaches that are accessible to the enhance and prominent for walking, but usually unsuitable for swimming because of unpredictable currents, frigid temperatures, and dangerous surf. The beach at Garrapata State Park is sometimes rated as the best beach in Big Sur.
Pfieffer Beach is accessible by driving 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the entrance to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park on Highway 1, and turning west on the unmarked Sycamore Canyon Road.
In the south, Sand Dollar Beach is the longest stretch of beach in Big Sur.
The beach is 25 miles (40 km) south of the Big Sur village on Highway 1.
Another is Point Sur Beach, a long sandy beach positioned below and to the north of Point Sur Lighthouse.
The territory use restrictions that preserve Big Sur's natural beauty also mean that visitor accommodations are limited, often expensive, and places to stay fill up quickly amid the busy summer season.
There are no urban areas, although three small clusters of gas stations, restaurants, and motels are often marked on maps as "towns" Posts in the Big Sur River valley, Lucia, near Limekiln State Park, and Gorda, on the southern coast.
Most lodging and restaurants are clustered in the Big Sur River valley, where Highway 1 leaves the coast for a several miles and winds into a redwood forest, protected from the chill ocean breezes and summer fog.
One of the places to stay, Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Room rates as of 2016 were from $125 for a room with a shared bathroom in the Hayloft Building to $290 for a room in The Stokes Building. The Post Ranch Inn, a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star hotel, charges an average of $1,200 per evening, although breakfast is included. Nineteen eating places of various sizes are found along the highway, cumulatively seating about 1,100 citizens . As of 2016, the Nepenthe Restaurant charges $17.50 for a vegetarian burger and $31.00 for a chicken dinner. The Fernwood Grill charges $10.25 for a burrito, and the Big Sur Deli has sandwiches under $7.00. In 1990, there were about 800 housing units in Big Sur, about 600 of which were single family dwellings. There are presently an estimated 100 short term rentals available. Many inhabitants of Big Sur object to the rentals.
They claim short term rentals violate the Big Sur Local Use Plan which prohibits establishing facilities that attract destination traffic.
About half of the inhabitants of Big Sur rent their residences. The Big Sur coastal territory use plan states: As of 2016, the county was conducting hearings and gathering input towards making a decision about short-term rentals on the Big Sur coast. Susan Craig, Central Coast District Manager of the California Coastal Commission, has offered her opinion that short term rentals are appropriate inside Big Sur. Big Sur Coast looking south near Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park The many climates of Big Sur result in a great biodiversity, including many rare and endangered species such as the wild orchid Piperia yadonii, which is found only on the Monterey Peninsula and on Rocky Ridge in the Los Padres forest.
A common "foreign" species is the Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), which was uncommon in Big Sur until the late 19th century, though its primary native surrounding is only a several miles upwind on the Monterey Peninsula, when many homeowners began to plant the quick-growing tree as a windbreak.
A harbor seal on a Big Sur beach The last Grizzly Bear in Monterey County was seen in 1941 on the Cooper Ranch near the mouth of the Little Sur River. :21 In the past 25 years, American black bears have been sighted in the area, likely expanding their range from southern California and filling in the ecological niche left when the Grizzly bear was exterminated.:261 The Big Sur River watershed provides surrounding for mountain lion, deer, fox, coyotes and non-native wild boars.
The upstream river canyon is characteristic of the Ventana Wilderness region: steep-sided, sharp-crested ridges separating valleys. Because most of the upper reaches of the Big Sur River watershed are inside the Los Padres National Forest and the Ventana Wilderness, much of the river is in pristine condition.
The California Department of Fish and Game says the river is the "most meaningful spawning stream for steelhead" on the Central Coast. and that it "is one of the best steelhead streams in the county.":166 The Big Sur River is a key surrounding inside the Central California Steelhead distinct populace segment which is listed as threatened. fisheries service report estimates that the number of trout in the entire south-central coast region including the Pajaro River, Salinas River, Carmel River, Big Sur River, and Little Sur River have dwindled from about 4,750 fish in 1965 to about 800 in 2005.
Numerous fauna are found in the Big Sur region.
After some success, a several birds were released in 1991 and 1992 in Big Sur, and again in 1996 in Arizona near the Grand Canyon. In 1997, the Ventana Wildlife Society began releasing captive-bred California Condor in Big Sur.
Two deep submarine canyons cut into the shelf near the Big Sur coast: the Sur Submarine Canyon, reaching a depth of 914 m (3000 ft) just 13 km (8 mi) south of Point Sur, and Partington Submarine Canyon, which reaches a similar depth of 11 km (6.8 mi) offshore of Grimes Canyon. Big Creek State Marine Reserve and Big Creek State Marine Conservation Area Fire plays a major part in the ecology of the upper slopes of the Big Sur region's mountain peaks where chaparral dominates the landscape. Native Americans burned chaparral to promote grasslands for textiles and food. In the lower elevations and canyons, the California Redwood is often found.
In undivided history, fires are known to have burned the Big Sur region multiple times.
The Basin Complex Fire forced an eight-day evacuation of Big Sur and the closure of Highway 1, beginning just before the July 4, 2008 holiday weekend. The fire, which burned over 130,000 acres (53,000 ha), represented the biggest of many lightning-caused wildfires that had broken out throughout California amid the same period. Although the fire caused no loss of life, it finished 27 homes, and the tourist-dependent economy lost about a third of its expected summer revenue. The Soberanes Fire, started by an illegal campfire in the Garrapata Creek watershed, burned around the Big Sur community.
The Esselen lived in the region between Point Sur south to Big Creek, and inland including the upper tributaries of the Carmel River and Arroyo Seco watersheds.
The Salinan lived from Big Creek south to San Carpoforo Creek. Archaeological evidence shows that the Esselen lived in Big Sur as early as 3500 BC, dominant a nomadic, hunter-gatherer existence. Their natives who lived in the Big Sur region are estimated from a several hundred to a thousand or more. The first Europeans to see Big Sur were Spanish mariners led by Juan Cabrillo in 1542, who sailed up the coast without landing.
In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portola became the first Europeans known to have explored Big Sur when they entered the region in the south near San Carpoforo Canyon.: 272 Daunted by the sheer cliffs and difficult topography, his party avoided the region and traveled far inland through the Salinas Valley.
Along with the rest of California, Big Sur became part of Mexico when it attained independence from Spain in 1821.
Parts of the Big Sur region were encompassed in territory grants given by Mexican governors Jose Figueroa and Juan Alvarado.
On July 30, 1834, Figueroa granted Rancho El Sur, two square leagues of territory totalling 8,949-acres (3,622 ha), to Juan Bautista Alvarado.:21 The grant extended between the Little Sur River and what is now called Cooper Point. Alvarado later interchanged Rancho El Sur for the more accessible Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo in the northern Salinas Valley, owned by his uncle by marriage, Captain John B.R.
In 1839, Alvarado granted Rancho San Jose y Sur Chiquito, also about two square leagues of territory totalling 8,876-acre (3,592 ha), to Marcelino Escobar, a prominent official of Monterey. The grant was bounded on the north by the Carmel River and on the south by Palo Colorado Canyon. The nation between the shore-line and the Coast Range of mountain peaks, running alongside with the shore-line from San Carpojoro to Point Sur is probably the roughest piece of coast-line on the whole Pacific coast of the United States from San Diego to Cape Flattery.
Post appeared in California in 1848, and homesteaded 640 acres (260 ha) in Big Sur in 1867.
The first known European settler in Big Sur was George Davis, who in 1853 claimed a tract of territory along the Big Sur River.
He married Native American Encarnacion Vallejo and acquired considerable territory including Rancho El Sur, on which he assembled a cabin in April or May 1861. The Cooper Cabin is the earliest surviving structure in Big Sur. In 1868, Native Americans Manual and Florence Innocenti bought Davis' cabin and territory for $50.
Michael Pfeiffer and his wife and four kids appeared in Big Sur in 1869 with the intention of settling on the south coast.
It was a rough road that ended in present-day Big Sur Village and could be impassible in winter.
Prior to the assembly of Highway 1, the California coast south of Carmel and north of San Simeon was one of the most remote regions in the state, rivaling at the time nearly any other region in the United States for its difficult access. It remained largely an untouched wilderness until early in the twentieth century. After the brief industrialized boom faded, the early decades of the 20th century passed with several changes, and Big Sur remained a nearly inaccessible wilderness.
Before the Carmel-San Simeon Highway was completed, settlement was primarily concentrated near the Big Sur River and present-day Lucia, and individual settlements along a 25 miles (40 km) stretch of coast between the two. The state first allowed building Route 56, or the Carmel San Simeon Highway, to connect Big Sur to the rest of California in 1919.
When Hearst Castle opened in 1958, a huge number of tourists also flowed through Big Sur.
Aside from Highway 1, the only access to Big Sur is via the winding, precipitous, 24.5 miles (39.4 km) long Nacimiento-Fergusson Road, which passes through Fort Hunter Liggett and joins to Mission Road in Jolon. Highway 1 has been closed on more than 55 occasions due to damage due from landslides, mudslides, erosion, and fire.:2 2 In April 1958, torrential rains caused flood conditions throughout Monterey County and Highway 1 in Big Sur was closed in various locations due to slides. A series of storms in the winter of 1983 caused four primary road-closing slides between January and April, including a large slide near Pfeiffer Burns State Park which closed the road for more than a year.:2 10 In 1998, about 40 different locations on the road were damaged by El Nino storms, including a primary slide 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Gorda that closed the road for almost three months. In March 2011, a 40 feet (12 m) section of Highway 1 just south of the Rocky Creek Bridge collapsed, method the road for a several months until a single lane bypass could be built. The state replaced that section of road with a viaduct that wraps around the unstable hillside. On January 16, 2016, the road was closed for portions of a day due to a mudslide near Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. During the following winter, Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park received more than 60 inches of rain, dominant to mudslides in a several locations.
On February 20, 2017, Caltrans announced that the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge just south of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park was damaged beyond repair and would have to be replaced, which could take up to a year. Highway 1 was closed indefinitely.
Pfeiffer Canyon is about 3 miles south of Big Sur, California. The major transportation objective of the Big Sur Coastal Land Use plan is to maintain Highway 1 as a scenic two-lane road and to reserve most remaining capacity for the before ity uses of the act. Big Sur territory use The majority of the Big Sur coast and interior are owned by the California State Department of Parks and Recreation, U.S.
Navy, the Big Sur Land Trust, and the University of California.
Approximately two-thirds of the Big Sur coastal area, totalling about 500,000 acres (200,000 ha), extending from the Carmel River in the north to San Simeon and the San Luis Obispo County line at San Carpoforo Canyon in the south, are preserved under various federal, state, county, and private arrangements. As of 2016, if enhance acquisitions now contemplated or in progress are completed, approximately 60% of the coast will be publicly owned, although not necessarily open to the public. The Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve is owned and managed by the University of California Natural Reserve System and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The first master plan for the Big Sur coast was written in 1962 by architect and part-time small-town resident Nathaniel A.
In 1977 a small group of small-town Big Sur inhabitants were appointed by Monterey County to the Big Sur Citizens' Advisory Committee.
Committee members met with Big Sur inhabitants and county administrators to draft a new territory use plan. They wrote the Big Sur Local Coastal Program with the goal to conserve scenic views and the unparalleled beauty of the area.
They advanced the plan over four years which encompassed several months of enhance hearings and discussion, including considerable input from the inhabitants of Big Sur.
The territory use plan bans all evolution west of Highway 1 with the exception of the Big Sur Valley.
Recognizing the Big Sur coast's outstanding scenic beauty and its great benefit to the citizens of the State and the Nation, it is the County's objective to preserve these scenic resources in perpetuity and to promote, wherever possible, the restoration of the natural beauty of visually degraded areas.
Major enhance viewing areas include not only highways, but beaches, parks, campgrounds, and primary trails, with a several exceptions. It also protects views of Mount Pico Blanco from the Old Coast Road. It allows limited amounts of additional commercial development, but only in four existing areas Big Sur Valley, Lucia, Pacific Valley, and Gorda. The key provisions of the Big Sur Local Coastal Program that generated the most controversy set density requirements for future building.
In established communities like Palo Colorado and the Big Sur Valley, only one living unit per 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) is permitted.
South of Big Sur Valley, the limit is set to one unit per 5 acres (2.0 ha), and in the far south of the region, only one unit per 10 acres (4.0 ha) are allowed. As of 2016 there are about 1,100 private territory parcels on the Big Sur Coast.
Small parcels of 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) or less are generally positioned near the highway, including Palo Colorado Canyon, Garrapata Redwood, Rocky Point, Big Sur Valley, Coastlands and Partington.
The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires small-town jurisdictions to identify an alignment for the California Coastal Trail in their Local Coastal Programs. In 2001, California legislators passed SB 908 which gave the Coastal Conservancy responsibility for completing the trail. In Monterey County, the trail is being advanced in two sections: the Big Sur Trail and the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Trail. In 2007, the Coastal Conservancy began to precarious a master plan for the 75 miles (121 km) stretch of coast through Big Sur from near Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County to the Carmel River. A coalition of Big Sur inhabitants began developing a master plan to accommodate the interests and concerns of coastal residents, but progress on an official trail stalled.
The coastal trail plan is intended to be respectful of the private landowner's rights. One of the biggest private territory holdings along the coast is El Sur Ranch.
It extends about 6 miles (9.7 km) along Highway 1, from near the Point Sur Lighthouse to the mouth of the Little Sur River at Hurricane Point, and it reaches 2.5 miles (4.0 km) up the Little Sur valley to the border of the Los Padre National Forest. The landowner Jim Hill supports the trail, but his territory is already crossed by two enhance routes, Highway 1 and the Old Coast Highway.
He is opposed to another enhance right-of-way through the ranch. In 2008, Representative Sam Farr from Carmel told attendees at a meeting in Big Sur that "I don't think you're going to see an end-to-end trail anytime in the near future." The acquisition of lands by the Big Sur Land Trust and the rest has created a 70 miles (110 km) long wildland corridor that begins at the Carmel River and extends southward to the Hearst Ranch in San Luis Obispo County.
From the north, the wild territory corridor is continuous through Palo Corona Ranch, Point Lobos Ranch, Garrapata State Park, Joshua Creek Ecological Preserve, Mittledorf Preserve, Glen Deven Ranch, Brazil Ranch, Los Padres National Forest, and the Ventana Wilderness. Many of these lands are distant from the coast, and the coastal trail plan calls for placing the trail, "Wherever feasible, ...within sight, sound, or at least the scent of the sea.
Big Sur Folk Festival Main article: Big Sur Folk Festival Nancy Carlen, a friend of Joan Baez, organized a weekend seminar at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur in June 1964 titled "The New Folk Music".
From 1964 to 1971, the Big Sur Folk Festival featured a lineup of emerging and established artists, including Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, The Beach Boys, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Country Joe Mc - Donald, John Sebastian, Arlo Guthrie, Dorothy Morrison & the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Julie Payne, and Richard and Mimi Farina.
Big Sur International Marathon Main article: Big Sur International Marathon The Big Sur Marathon is an annual marathon that begins south of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park and ends at the Crossroads Shopping Center in Carmel, California.
Big Sur typically appreciates a mild climate year-round, with a sunny, dry summer and fall, and a cool, wet winter.
Big Sur Coast after a wet winter, photo taken April 1969 The region is also traversed by the Sur-Hill fault, which is substantial at Pfeiffer Falls in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park.
The Little Sur River canyon is characteristic of the Ventana Wilderness region: steep-sided, sharp-crested ridges separating valleys. At the mouth of the Little Sur river are some of the biggest sand dunes on the Big Sur coast.:355 Along with much of the central and northern California coast, Big Sur incessantly has dense fog in summer.
Fog is an essential summer water origin for many Big Sur coastal plants.
At Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park on the coast, rainfall averaged about 43 in.
(39 cm) at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, compared to 85 in.
Climate data for Big Sur Big Sur is sparsely populated with about 1,000 year-round residents, as stated to the 2000 U.S.
Census, about the same number of inhabitants found there in 1900. Big Sur inhabitants include descendants of the initial ranching families, artists and writers, service staff, along with wealthy home-owners.
These wealthy homeowners, however, are usually only part-time inhabitants of Big Sur. The mountainous terrain, surroundingal restrictions imposed by the Big Sur Coastal Use Plan, and lack of property and the cost required to precarious available land, have kept Big Sur mostly unspoiled.
The United States does not define a census-designated place called Big Sur, but it does define a Zip Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA), 93920.
Because Big Sur is contained roughly inside this Zip Code Tabulation Area, it is possible to obtain Enumeration data from the United States 2000 Enumeration for the region even though data for "Big Sur" is unavailable. View of Gorda, one of the small clusters of services in Big Sur Existing settlements in the Big Sur region, between the Carmel River and the San Carpoforo Creek, include: Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park At the county level, Big Sur is represented on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors by Supervisor Dave Potter. In the California State Assembly, Big Sur is in the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 30th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anna Caballero. In the United States House of Representatives, Big Sur is in California's 20th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jimmy Panetta. Author Henry Miller lived in Big Sur from 1944 1962.
In the early to mid-20th century, Big Sur's relative isolation and natural beauty began to attract writers and artists, including Robinson Jeffers, Henry Miller, Edward Weston, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S.
Jeffers was the first, arriving in Big Sur with his bride Una in 1913. Beginning in the 1920s, his poetry introduced the romantic idea of Big Sur's wild, untamed spaces to a nationwide audience, which encouraged many of the later visitors.
In the posthumously presented book Stones of the Sur, Carmel landscape photographer Morley Baer later combined his classical black and white photographs of Big Sur with some of Jeffers' poetry.
Henry Miller lived in Big Sur for 20 years, from 1944 to 1962.
His 1957 essay/memoir/novel Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch described the joys and hardships that came from escaping the "air conditioned eveningmare" of undivided life.
Thompson worked as a security guard and caretaker at a resort in Big Sur Hot Springs for eight months in 1961, just before the Esalen Institute was established at that location.
While there, he presented his first periodical feature in the nationally distributed Rogue (men's) magazine, about Big Sur's artisan and Bohemian culture. Jack Kerouac spent a several days in Big Sur in early 1960 at fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in the woods, and wrote a novel, Big Sur, based on his experience there.
Big Sur acquired a bohemian reputation with these newcomers.
Miller is referenced in Brautigan's A Confederate General at Big Sur, in which a pair of young men attempt the idyllic Big Sur life in small shacks and are variously plagued by flies, low ceilings, visiting businessmen with nervous breakdowns, and 2,452 tiny frogs whose loud singing keeps everyone awake.
A number of famous citizens have called Big Sur home, including diplomats Nicholas Roosevelt, famed architects Nathaniel Owings and Phillip Johnson, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, show company celebrities Kim Novak and Allen Funt, and company executives Ted Turner and David Packard. Orson Welles and his wife at the time, Rita Hayworth, bought a Big Sur cabin on impulse amid a trip down the coast in 1944.
Another film based in Big Sur was the 1974 Zandy's Bride, starring Gene Hackman and Liv Ullman. American composer John Adams wrote an electric violin concerto titled The Dharma at Big Sur.
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A Guide to California's Big Sur: A elected visitor's guide to the Big Sur region "The Big Sur cabin": Dating the earliest cabin in Big Sur, 1861 "Hiking In Big Sur" Hiking at Big Sur "Big Sur Alanis Morissette" You - Tube video
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Geography of Monterey County, California - Geography of San Luis Obispo County, California - Santa Lucia Range - Monterey Ranger District, Los Padres National Forest - Biodiversity hotspots - California State Route 1 - Cliffs of the United States - Northern California - Regions of California - Big Sur
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