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Cabrillo
Highway
Highway
Looking north from Plaskett Ridge
Guide 001 · South Coast · San Simeon to Carmel Highlands
Every creek out here was named for somebody.
Ninety miles of the Cabrillo Highway, told stop by stop — the landings, the lime kilns, the schoolhouses, the families who put their names on the water. Following the drive Mabel Plaskett wrote for The Land in July 1959.
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Piedras Blancasthe white rocks
Partington Covetunnel to the landing
San Carpóforocreek into sand
Saddle Rockshaped like one
Salmon Creekfalls at the curve
Nepentheforget the lost Lenore
Gordachurch, no pastor
Pfeiffer Beachshells by the sackful
Jade Covenephrite at the tideline
Point Sur Light350 ft, every 15 sec
Plaskett Creeksteps cut to the sand
Pico Blanco3,710 feet
Kirk CreekKing City, 49 miles
Bixby Bridgeotters found, 1938
Lime Kiln Creeklime shipped, 1880s
Notley's Landingtanbark by schooner
LuciaMonterey, 50 miles
Point Lobosthe wolves
+ 23 more stops, 2 hrs 40 min of audio
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