Starting Friday May 17 at 6:30 a.m., Highway 1 north of Esalen will reopen with the use of a 24/7 signalized traffic control, providing unrestricted public access with one-way alternating traffic in both the north and southbound directions.
Until May 17, visitors can access Esalen and other northern Big Sur locations via twice-daily convoys operated by Caltrans only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.
Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.
For the past decade, Emily Linders has managed to spend nearly every summer in the California wilderness as a trail worker and backcountry cook in Yosemite and a monk at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She brings ten years of formal meditation practice, wilderness-based youth development work, hospice work, and Buddhist chaplaincy to her work as a nature-based psychotherapist under the oaks of Sonoma County. Emily is a long-term Gestalt Awareness practitioner in the lineage of Dick Price, Christine Price, and Dorothy Charles. Emily is a NOLS certified Wilderness First Responder.
For the past decade, Emily has spent nearly every summer in the California wilderness as a trail worker and backcountry cook in Yosemite and a monk at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She brings ten years of formal meditation practice, wilderness-based youth development work, hospice work, and Buddhist chaplaincy to her work as a nature-based psychotherapist.
Esalen Institute
55000 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
US: 1-831-667-3000
info@esalen.org
