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State Park Attractions In Big Sur

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Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery. Big Sur has been called the longest and most scenic stretch of undeveloped coastline in the contiguous United States, 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. The stunning views, redwood forests, hiking, beaches, and other recreational op...
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  • 2. Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park Big Sur
    Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is a state park in Monterey County, California, near the area of Big Sur on the state's Central Coast. It covers approximately 1,006 acres of land. The park is centered on the Big Sur River. It has been nicknamed a mini Yosemite.
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  • 3. Limekiln State Park Big Sur
    Limekiln State Park is a state park of California, United States, on the Big Sur coast. It contains four lime kilns from an 1887–1890 lime-calcining operation, plus a beach, redwood forest, and 100-foot Limekiln Falls. It is located 2 miles south of Lucia on State Route 1. The 711-acre park was established in 1994.
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  • 4. Point Sur State Historic Park Big Sur
    Point Sur State Historic Park is a California State Park on the Big Sur coastline of Monterey County, California, United States, 19 miles south of Rio Road in Carmel. The 1889 Point Sur Lighthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • 5. Andrew Molera State Park Big Sur
    Andrew Molera State Park is a relatively undeveloped state park on the Big Sur coast of California, United States, preserving land as requested by former owner Frances Molera. Situated at the mouth of the Big Sur River, the property was part of the Rancho El Sur land grant, and later owned by Californio pioneer John B. R. Cooper and his descendants. Cooper's grandchildren Andrew and Frances Molera inherited the property from their mother in 1918, and after Andrew died in 1931, Frances stipulated in 1965 that the park should be named for her brother, who popularized the artichoke in California in 1922, when she sold the property to The Nature Conservancy in 1965.
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  • 6. Asilomar State Beach Pacific Grove
    Asilomar Conference Grounds is a conference center built for the Young Women's Christian Association . It is located east of what was known as Moss Beach on the western tip of the Monterey Peninsula in Pacific Grove, California. Between 1913 and 1929 architect Julia Morgan designed and built 16 of the buildings on the property, of which 11 are still standing. In 1956 it became part of the State Division of Beaches and Parks of California's Department of Natural Resources, and Moss Beach was renamed Asilomar State Beach. Asilomar is a derivation of the Spanish phrase asilo al mar, meaning asylum or refuge by the sea.
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