Keep Big Sur Wild maintains “all capacity has already been exhausted” when it comes to the build-out of Big Sur according to the land use plan. It allowed for a maximum of 300 units to be built.

Big Sur’s Highway 1 to reopen Friday — ahead of schedule — after major rockfall The ground underpinning a portion of Highway 1 in Big Sur fell away in March, forcing a closure of the roadway.

A 43-acre compound in Big Sur is for sale for $21.5 million (Wayne Capili for Sotheby’s International Realty). The 2,536-square-foot main house has three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

When Brigga Mosca, 70, and Reed Cripe, 82, moved from Los Angeles to Big Sur, Calif., in 1983, they camped out in a two-person tent on a 5-acre piece of land they bought for around $70,000.