A Working Ranch Above the Valley: Summer at Carmel Valley Ranch
Ten miles inland from the fog, on five hundred sun-warmed acres, Carmel Valley Ranch offers a rustic kind of luxury — a Pete Dye golf course and hilltop vineyard beside beehives, saltwater pools, and picnics with a pair of Sicilian mini donkeys. A high-summer Peninsula hideaway where the land, not the lobby, is the luxury.
The Light on the Wall: A Season at the Center for Photographic Art
Housed in a quiet wing of Sunset Center, the Center for Photographic Art carries the lineage of Group f/64, the Westons, and Ansel Adams’s Friends of Photography — and still keeps a working darkroom behind the gallery walls.
Ten Days of Motion: A Field Guide to Monterey Car Week 2026
Monterey Car Week runs August 7–16 — ten days, seventy-five events, and thirty of them free. A field guide to the week’s rhythm, plus our complete searchable listing of every event, venue and price.
Behind the Golden Bough: Carmel’s Secret Courtyards and Passages
Step off Ocean Avenue and the village folds inward — brick paseos, hidden terraces, flower-hung passageways. A walk through the Court of the Golden Bough, Su Vecino Court, and the Doud Arcade, and the human-scaled design philosophy that shaped them.
The Last Hometown: A Slow Weekend in Pacific Grove
Just around the point from Carmel, Pacific Grove keeps a gentler register — a two-night late-summer itinerary built on the shoreline Recreation Trail, Lovers Point coves, Asilomar’s dune-edged beach, and a town that never learned to hurry.
The Grande Dame of Carmel
The Grande Dame of Carmel: how a 1905 stone mansion built by painter Chris Jorgensen for chocolate heiress Angela Ghirardelli became La Playa, the historic hotel recently reborn through a restrained restoration by Post Company.
Stone by Stone
Tor House, the granite cottage Robinson Jeffers raised by hand on Carmel Point, is autobiography set in stone. A look at how the poet learned to make “stone love stone” — and how to visit the house and Hawk Tower today.
The House Bing Built
Founded in 1949 by Bing Crosby and the last of the 200-plus youth centers he helped create, the Carmel Youth Center endures at Fourth and Torres — through a 2023 closure, a 2024 return, and the quiet devotion of the families who will not let it go.
Shakespeare Under the Pines
Under the pines of Carmel’s 1910 Forest Theater, PacRep’s late-summer Carmel Shakespeare Festival carries on a tradition first begun in 1940. A look at what makes an evening of open-air Shakespeare on the coast unlike anything else.
First Fruit
A late-summer portrait of Folktale Winery & Vineyards in Carmel Valley, where an old-world chateau, a coastal winemaker, and the rituals of harvest turn a single piece of land into a story worth following.