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    Big Sur (/ˈsɜːr/) is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California, between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where...
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    The Big Sur River is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) river on the Central Coast of California. The river drains a portion of the Big Sur area, a thinly settled...
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    approximately 1,006 acres (4.07 km2) of land. The park is centered on the Big Sur River. It has been nicknamed a "mini Yosemite." A Redwood tree in the park...
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    Big Sur Village is an unincorporated community in the Big Sur region, in Monterey County, California, United States. It is located along a 1-mile-long...
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    Big Sur Coast Highway is a section of California State Route 1 through the Big Sur region of California that is widely considered to be one of the most...
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    Little Sur River to the mouth of the Big Sur River and Andrew Molera State Park. Both the ranch and the park originally comprised the Rancho El Sur land...
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    The Little Sur River is a 14.3-mile (23.0 km): 165  long river on the Central Coast of California. The river and its main tributary, the a 11.1-mile (17...
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  • Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a memoir written by Henry Miller, first published in 1957, about his life in Big Sur, California, where...
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  • Celebration at Big Sur (also known simply as Celebration) is a film of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival in Big Sur, California, featuring Crosby, Stills...
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    still exists in part and preceded the current Big Sur Coast Highway along the northern coast of Big Sur, California. It was initially a trail created...
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  • The Big Sur Land Trust is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Monterey, California, that has played an instrumental role in preserving land in California's...
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    Ansel Adams (category People from Big Sur, California)
    friend offered to sell them property in Carmel Highlands, overlooking the Big Sur coastline. With architect Eldridge Spencer, they began planning the new...
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    Marble Cone Fire (category Big Sur)
    watersheds of the Carmel River Valley, Arroyo Seco River, Big Sur, Little Sur River and Big Creek. Big Sur residents and members of the Big Sur Fire Brigade were...
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    States in 1961, Thompson visited San Francisco and eventually lived in Big Sur, where he spent eight months as security guard and caretaker at Slates...
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  • The policies protecting land used in Big Sur are some of the most restrictive local-use standards in California, and are widely regarded as one of the...
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    Andrew Molera State Park (category Big Sur)
    Big Sur coast of California, United States, preserving land as requested by former owner Frances Molera. Situated at the mouth of the Big Sur River,...
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  • the novels A Confederate General from Big Sur and Trout Fishing in America. A Confederate General from Big Sur was his debut novel, published in 1964...
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  • The Big Sur Folk Festival, held from 1964 to 1971 in California, was an informal gathering of prominent and emerging folk artists from across the United...
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    Esselen (category Big Sur)
    are Indigenous to the Santa Lucia Mountains of a region south of the Big Sur River in California. Prior to Spanish colonization, they lived seasonally...
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  • Big Sur Station is a multiagency visitor center and ranger station operated by Caltrans, the Los Padres National Forest, and California State Parks. It...
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    the mountains into the sea. A few of them, including the Big Sur and Little Sur Rivers, Big Creek, Garrapata Creek, and Salmon Creek, are large enough...
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  • The Big Sur International Marathon is an annual marathon held in California, United States along the Pacific coast. The marathon was established in 1986...
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    Bixby Bridge (category Big Sur)
    Bixby Bridge, also known as Bixby Creek Bridge, on the Big Sur coast of California, is one of the most photographed bridges in California due to its aesthetic...
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  • The Big Sur Jade Festival is an annual three-day event held in southern Big Sur in Monterey County, California. It is organized by the non-profit South...
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    Sykes Camp (category Big Sur)
    the Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park trailhead along the Pine Ridge Trail. There were seven campsites along both sides of the Big Sur River upstream and downstream...
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    California condor (category Big Sur)
    America. California condors were released in 1991 and 1992 in California at Big Sur, Pinnacles National Park and Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge and...
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  • Ventana Wilderness (category Big Sur)
    Ventana Wilderness in addition to designating the Big Sur River as a Wild and Scenic River. The Big Sur Wilderness and Conservation Act of 2002 expanded...
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    Henry Miller (category Big Sur)
    Hollywood in Beverly Glen, before settling in Big Sur in 1944. While Miller was establishing his base in Big Sur, the Tropic books, then still banned in the...
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    Creek Salinas River (jump to tributaries) Carmel River Malpaso Creek Little Sur River Big Sur River Pfeiffer-Redwood Creek McWay Creek Old Creek Toro...
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    Abies bracteata (category Big Sur)
    and the bottoms of rocky canyons in the Santa Lucia Mountains, in the Big Sur region on the central coast of California, United States. The species may...
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