Big Sur, California, is one of those places that will take your breath away and leave you wondering why you didn’t plan a ...

A highway closure along the wildest stretch of California’s Central Coast inspired three dauntless paddlers to try another route. Here’s how that four-day odyssey went. It was raining so hard, we ...

Rarely are photos able to do it justice. Especially not mine. I still have a hard time believing how close Big Sur is to Los Angeles. I felt so completely and incredibly far away from the city. Even ...

This five-day California road trip from Los Angeles to Monterey stops in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and Carmel-by-the-Sea, passing some of the best wineries, restaurants, and views in ...

BIG SUR — Deep in the heart of this breathtaking wilderness, a California condor launches itself from the sunlit skeleton of a burnt Ponderosa pine. Its great wings cut through the mountain air with a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Goldstein is a journalist and playwright based in Los Angeles. This is an image of Bixby Bridge in Big Sur California. The ...

Big Sur isn’t a clearly demarcated space on the map so much as a general location in our collective state of California-dreaming. “Big Sur is very like Valhalla,” Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “a ...

Communities and businesses stuck between two major landslides on Highway 1 in Big Sur will be cut off from the rest of the state again this week when officials halt convoys in and out of the region ...

Firefighters continue battling a wildfire that broke out in the rugged mountains along Big Sur, forcing hundreds of residents on this precarious stretch of the California coast to evacuate and ...

Severe storms have closed a section of Highway 1 and cut off parts of Big Sur, though you can still see Bixby Bridge (Flickr) “Big Sur spits out the meek, so to speak. I read that somewhere,” says ...