Introduction: What? : The park is located on the western slope of the Santa Lucia Mountains, inside the Big Sur River Gorge along highway 1. The park land is covered by lash forest of redwoods, oaks, sycamores, and others. There are few hikes in the main park valley and others that climb the mountain peeks on both sides of the creek (and highway 1). The combination of the surrounding mountains landscape, redwoods and forests, running river and the location along the scenic highway 1 one made this to be of the most popular parks along Highway 1.