A Town That Loves Its Dogs: Doris Day’s Enduring Carmel Legacy
Long before pet-friendly hospitality became fashionable, Doris Day insisted the Cypress Inn welcome four-legged guests, helping give Carmel-by-the-Sea its reputation as one of America’s most dog-loving towns. A portrait of her animal-welfare devotion, the traditions it seeded, and how her son Terry Melcher’s memory lives on.
Rolling Sculpture: The 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
On August 16, 2026, the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach becomes the most beautiful showroom on earth as the Concours d’Elegance turns 75, with Ferrari as featured marque and the coachbuilt art of Vignale at its heart.
The Art of Place: A Century of Peninsula Light at the Monterey Museum of Art
The Monterey Museum of Art’s summer season, The Art of Place, traces more than a century of art rooted in the Peninsula’s light and land across four exhibitions, anchored by Mary DeNeale: Doyenne of the Carmel Art Colony, on view through August 16, 2026.
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.