Route 1 - Big Sur Coast Highway
All-American Road 73 mi in California.
About the Route 1 - Big Sur Coast Highway
Travel the route that hugs the California coast, providing access to austere, windswept cypress trees, fog-shrouded cliffs and the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean. Views include rugged canyons, towering redwoods, sea lions, and other marine life.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: All-American Road, California State Scenic Highway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 13 · on the roadPlaskett Creek Campground · Forest Service · 46 sites · reservable
- Mile 18 · 4.9 mi offNacimiento · Forest Service
- Mile 19 · on the roadKirk Creek Campground · Forest Service · 32 sites · reservable
- Mile 21 · on the roadLimekiln State Park · State park · 29 sites · reservable
- Mile 35 · on the roadJulia Pfeiffer Burns State Park · State park · reservable
- Mile 46 · on the roadPfeiffer Big Sur State Park · State park · reservable
- Mile 51 · on the roadAndrew Molera State Park · State park · reservable
- Mile 56 · 4.2 mi offBottchers Gap · Forest Service
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.