june-2011

PHOTOGRAPH BY KODIAK GREENWOOD
View
Finders
These cliff side
hotels will have you
seeing things
STAY
BIG SUR, CALIF. THERE’S A REASON
why the rolling, strawcolored
hills, the spooky redwood groves
and the rocky, fog-enshrouded coastline
of Big Sur form the backdrop of commer-
HILLY OCEAN
The vertiginous view
from the Jacuzzi in
one the Post Ranch
Inn’s cliff side villas
cials for just about every carmaker in the history of television:
There’s no place anywhere that can match it for sheer drama.
And few places in Big Sur are as inviting as the exquisite Post
Ranch Inn, which has 39 guest rooms spread over 20 acres of
sequoia stands and golden eagles’ nests, facing either the vast
Pacifi c or the inland Santa Lucia mountain range. The cliff side
villas are a study in stunning scale: Beside the wood-burning
fi replace, a glass-walled bedroom looks out past the balcony
and Jacuzzi over the edge of a 1,000-foot drop to the undulating
ocean below. Acrophobes beware. postranchinn.com
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