Pacific Driving Routes
California's coast and mountains. 6 routes, each one a live Plot Along map you can open, copy and make your own. California packs its best roads into improbable terrain, from the cliff-edge sweep of the Big Sur Coast Highway to the high switchbacks of Angeles Crest. For something shorter, Mulholland Highway's Snake threads nine miles of tight corners through the Santa Monica Mountains.
View all regionsBig Sur · CA
Big Sur Coast Highway, CA-1
Ninety-plus miles of cliffside curves and pocket coves where the Santa Lucia Mountains fall straight into the Pacific, with no inland shortcut for an hour in either direction.
- 93 mi
- 4h 23m
- 13 stops
- 928 ft
San Gabriel Mtns · CA
Angeles Crest Highway, CA-2
- 61 mi
- 1h 49m
- 8 stops
- 7,901 ft
Northern Coast Ranges · CA
California State Route 36
- 135 mi
- 3h 27m
- 6 stops
- 4,297 ft
East Bay · CA
Mount Diablo Summit Road
- 21 mi
- 1h 31m
- 6 stops
- 3,760 ft
Santa Monica Mtns · CA
Mulholland Highway (The Snake)
- 9 mi
- 20m
- 4 stops
- 1,769 ft
San Diego County · CA
Palomar Mountain South Grade, County S6
- 12 mi
- 27m
- 3 stops
- 5,557 ft
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