This roadside farmstand offers smoothies, soups and lets you harvest your own herbs in the garden.


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2. Carmel River State Beach

4.28 MILES

Migratory birds are attracted to this mile-long stretch of sand bordered by a lagoon formed by the Carmel River.

3. Carmel Beach City Park

4.67 MILES

Not always sunny, Carmel Beach is a gorgeous blanket of white sand, where pampered pups excitedly run off-leash. South of 10th Ave, bonfires crackle after…

4. Tor House

4.69 MILES

Even if you’ve never heard of 20th-century poet Robinson Jeffers, a pilgrimage to this house built with his own hands offers fascinating insights into…

5. Monterey Museum of Art – La Mirada

4.94 MILES

Southeast of downtown Monterey, MMA La Mirada is a silent-film star’s villa, a building whose humble adobe origins are exquisitely concealed. It is now…

6. Point Lobos State Natural Reserve

5.02 MILES

They bark, they laze and bathe and they’re fun to watch – sea lions are the stars in this state park some 4 miles south of Carmel, along with the…

8. Stevenson House

5.25 MILES

Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson came to Monterey in 1879 to court his wife-to-be, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. This building, then the French Hotel…