In the Central Coast Area of California lie Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and the coastal landscape of Big Sur. It is sometimes called a Middle Kingdom designated.
Counties and places
Counties from north to south:
- Santa Cruz County
- San Benito County
- Monterey County
- Monterey Peninsula: Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach
- Greenfield
- Gonzales
- King City
- Marina
- Salinas
- Seaside
- Soledad
- San Luis Obispo County
- Santa Barbara County
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Maria, the largest city in the region
- Buellton
- Carpinteria
- Goleta
- Guadalupe
- Lompoc
- Solvang
- Ventura County
Other goals
- California State Route 1 or "Pacific Coast Highway", runs right along the coast, past some sights, and offers spectacular views
- Big Sur, sparsely populated but very scenic area on the Pacific coast, between Monterey and San Luis Obispo; with the Los Padres National Forest
- Paso Robles, well-known wine-growing region
- Lake Nacimiento, 28 km long reservoir, the banks of which are divided into numerous winding arms and "fingers" that give it a kite-like shape. Popular water sports area.
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getting there
The largest airport in the region is in Santa Barbara. The next destinations for direct intercontinental flights are San Francisco (160 km north of Monterey) and los Angeles (160 km east of Santa Barbara).
The Amtrak railroad lines run along California's central coast Coast Starlight (Seattle – Portland – Los Angeles; stops in Salinas, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara) and Pacific Surfliner (San Luis Obispo-Santa Barbara-Los Angeles-San Diego; seven stops on the Central Coast).
GreyhoundLong-distance buses on the Los Angeles – San Jose route travel through the Central Coast region and stop, among other things. in Santa Barbara and Salinas.
The most important road connection is the U.S. Route 101, which runs from Olympia (Washington) along the Pacific coast through Eureka and San Francisco to Los Angeles. It is mostly as a freeway (freeway) expanded. From Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, for example, it takes about an hour and a half (without traffic jams), and from San Francisco to Monterey just under two hours.
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Tourist Attractions
- Hearst Castle at San Simeon, fanciful palace built in the 1920s for influential media entrepreneur and multimillionaire William Randolph Hearst. It imitates various European architectural styles, including served the Spanish Renaissance Cathedral of Santa María la Mayor in Ronda as a rolemodel. There are 56 bedrooms, 61 bathrooms and 19 living rooms, as well as several indoor and outdoor pools, the most spectacular of which is the Neptune pool is. The gardens cover more than 50 hectares. Hearst had a private zoo here, and zebras, for example, can still be seen today. The property offers dramatic views of both the mountains and the ocean. Orson Welles used it as the inspiration for the castle "Xanadu" in the film Citizen Kane (whose main character alludes in part to Hearst).
- America's Teaching Zoo
- Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park
- Santa Paula Union Oil Museum
