Sun-warmed oak-studded hills rolling across Carmel Valley, California.
Hotels & Resorts

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.

A secluded terraced Carmel garden courtyard in warm golden-hour light.
Hotels & Resorts

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.

The white farmhouse and barns of Mission Ranch in Carmel-by-the-Sea
Inns & Hideaways

Where the Sheep Still Graze: An Evening at Mission Ranch

An 1850s dairy, a wartime officers’ club, and very nearly a condominium development — Mission Ranch survives as Carmel’s living room: thirty-one rooms, a piano bar where locals still sing, and sheep in the meadow against Point Lobos.