Big Sur
There is a 90-mile stretch of road clinging to the cliffs between Carmel and San Simeon, with the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Santa Lucia mountains on the other. The road is Highway One and the area is Big Sur.Big Sur is approximately 300 miles north of Los Angeles and 150 miles south of San Francisco. The name Big Sur came from the name El Sur Grande, “the Big South,” which was the name given to an unexplored and unmapped wilderness area along the California coast south of Monterey.
Monterey Bay Aquarium