12 Iconic Eats Every Visitor Should Try

The best vacations leave a smile on your face and a good taste in your mouth. Smell the tri-tip sizzling and savor a hot bread bowl of clam chowder. With so many famous SLO CAL (San Luis Obispo County) foods to devour, put your diet aside. Make your Instagram followers drool with these iconic bites…

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36 Hours of Beaches and Wine in SLO CAL

Linger awhile over fine dining, iconic wines, on long walks and secret beaches in SLO CAL. Need a little one-on-one time? SLO CAL is an ideal destination for the getaway you’ve been wanting to take with your beloved. Quiet, uncrowded beaches, glasses of award-winning wine, oceanfront sunsets, cozy…

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36 Hours of Outdoor Family Fun in SLO CAL

Breathe deep, get stoked and enjoy the scenery on a getaway with those you love most A family vacation can recharge your batteries, realign your values and restore your sense of togetherness. What better place to do it than in SLO CAL, the Land of Outdoor Fun? Here, you’ll find an itinerary for 36…

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Celebrating SLO CAL Crafted

Visit SLO CAL and you can’t help but notice a distinct entrepreneurial spirit: in all corners of San Luis Obispo County, folks are creating beautiful, useful and delicious products. They’re the inspiration behind SLO CAL Crafted, a guide to the handmade goods born right here in SLO CAL. Many of the…

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The Ghosts of SLO CAL

I get the best ghost stories from people on my ghost tours when I ask who’s experienced a haunting. They’re more like anecdotes than stories: brief encounters—with the dead rather than the living. The earliest ghost story in San Luis Obispo County, maybe the earliest in California, involves humans…

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36 Hours of Living Life to the Fullest in SLO CAL

Seize the day? Absolutely. Live your best life with our fun-filled, flavor-forward, no-time-like-the-present itinerary for 36 hours in SLO CAL. There’s a reason “you only live once” became an acronym: it’s true! The sentiment has a way of snapping us back to the present moment, guiding us to savor…

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24 Hours in Creston, Shandon and Cholame

Have fun exploring the wild, wild west in this trio of authentic and picturesque ranching towns. Located along the northeastern edge of SLO CAL lie the little towns of Creston, Shandon and Cholame — a land of hay barns and fertile pastures, where cattle graze golden rolling hills reminiscent of a…

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24 Hours in San Simeon and Ragged Point

Natural wonders, wildlife, and art make for a sweet stay in these sister communities by the sea The neighboring communities of Ragged Point and San Simeon are each a study in contrast. They’re rugged as well as refined, otherworldly and yet totally familiar. San Simeon is where wealthy newspaperman…

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24 Hours in Grover Beach and Oceano

Bring your appetite for these two free-wheeling, flavorful communities on the coast. Bigger is definitely better in SLO CAL’s Grover Beach and Oceano. Set against a backdrop of towering sand dunes and world-class beaches, these communities live large and offer big thrills, big flavors and big-time…

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