Post Ranch Inn
Big Sur · Carmel, Pebble Beach & Big Sur
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because it would be difficult for anything man-made to compete with these cliffs and these redwoods, and this house holds its own: each house design suited to its spot, nearly all glass where the view demands it, a table with a cellar honored every year since 2012, and a silence that the coast road, far below, never reaches.
- On the cliffs of Big Sur above Highway 1, on the Post family's ranch; independent house.
- The Tree Houses and the Ocean Houses; Sierra Mar and its cellar; the Post Ranch Spa of 2025 and the Redwood Sanctuary; breakfast, valet, activities and the mini-bar included.
- The Tree Houses on stilts, camouflaged among the redwoods; the Ocean Houses of glass at the cliff's edge, with grasses and wildflowers on their sloping roofs.
- Three MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star 2026 for the hotel; holds five-star standing.
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Good to know
- Address — 47900 Highway 1, 93920 Big Sur, CA
- Pets not accepted
The neighborhood
Big Sur
The coast south of Carmel on Highway 1, where two houses sit on the cliffs a thousand feet above the Pacific. Along the road lie the Bixby Bridge, the redwood canyons of Pfeiffer Big Sur, McWay Falls and Nepenthe's terrace; the coast is forty minutes to an hour from Carmel, with no town at all.
- The cliffs and the Pacific, from every house.
- Pfeiffer Big Sur and Nepenthe, minutes along Highway 1.
- Carmel-by-the-Sea, about forty minutes; Monterey airport, about an hour.
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