POINT LOBOS – Securing a spot at this famed coastal reserve will soon be like scoring a table at Mario Batali’s hottest new restaurant. In an attempt to reduce crowds at one of California’s most ...

What you'll see: From Highway 1, the turnoff into Point Lobos State Natural Reserve provides not a clue to the spectacles that await. You pass the entrance station, drive into a forest of cypress and ...

POINT LOBOS — Days after closing due to powerful storms that brought strong winds and heavy rain to the region, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve reopened Tuesday. In addition to dozens of downed ...

Sea Lion Point Trail at Point Lobos State Reserve reopened Wednesday, just in time for Memorial Day Weekend. The California Conservation Corps crews spent the last four months refurbishing the trail ...

California State Parks employees are sounding the alarm: Point Lobos is suffering from overuse.About 1 million people a year visit the reserve and it's more than the natural landscape can handle. Soon ...

In 1898, after a coal company drew up plans to build a subdivision with 1,000 homes at Point Lobos, just south of Carmel, a Chicago racetrack designer and real estate investor named Alexander Allan ...

Chuck Bancroft learned something new last week. Nearly 26 years into his tenure as a State Parks ranger at Point Lobos State Reserve, he knows just about every tidbit about the local geography, ...

The waters off Point Lobos are green, crystalline and clear enough to reveal an otter foraging on the sea-bed meters below the surface. A queue of brown pelicans floats along the fog-misted bluffs. A ...

California State Parks has introduced parallel parking signs at Point Lobos to address traffic congestion, with enforcement ...

A doe that reportedly fell off a cliff at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve was rescued after spending about 24 hours ...