10 Romantic Issues to Do on California’s Central Coast 

This can be a visitor put up by Lia of Sensible Wanderlust.

Most folk visiting California are headed for two spots: San Francisco, or Los Angeles.  And whereas each of these well-known California locations are completely rad and I extremely encourage you to go to them, don’t neglect the  romantic California Central Coast!

California’s Central Coast is centrally positioned, appropriately, straight between San Francisco and Los Angeles: an ideal 4 hours in both course, actually. That means it’s the PERFECT place to cease in your scenic Freeway 1 Street Journey, and top-of-the-line weekend journeys in California.

Listed here are 10 adorably romantic issues to do on the Central Coast.

Desk of Contents

• Take a dip in a pure scorching spring
• Journey dune buggies on Pismo Seaside
• Hire a 2-person kayak in Morro Bay
• Have a romantic meal
• Share a slice of olallieberry pie in Cambria
• Catch a flick at Sundown Drive-In
• Hike by way of seaside cliffs and seashores in Montana de Oro
• Share a glass of wine (or 5) in Paso Robles
• Take an extended, scenic drive
• Watch a surprising sundown in Morro Bay or Pismo Seaside
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Take a dip in a pure scorching spring

What could possibly be extra romantic than soaking in an all-natural scorching tub? The Central Coast is stuffed with pure scorching springs to loosen up and unwind together with your sweetheart! There’s Sycamore Mineral Springs and Avila Scorching Springs in Avila Seaside.

Should you’re in Wine Nation,  River Oaks Scorching Springs and Spa and Paso Robles Inn in Paso Robles each supply pure scorching springs. The Esalen Scorching Springs in Large Sur are mentioned to have therapeutic powers: in spite of everything, they’ve been utilized in religious rituals for over 6,000 years.

Right this moment, the meditative Esalen Institute is a retreat for seekers of solitude and peace. Gaze out over the Pacific Ocean out of your cliffside scorching tub. Oh, and, erm … the Esalen scorching springs are clothes non-compulsory. Ahem. Get pleasure from

Journey dune buggies on Pismo Seaside

Romance isn’t at all times about leisure and peacefully gazing into each other’s eyes. Typically essentially the most romantic actions are essentially the most heart-stoppingly, terrifyingly, thrillingly enjoyable adventures!

Should you and your boo are the adventurous sorts, head to Pismo Seaside, hire an ATV at Solar Buggy and put together to carry on for expensive life. Dune buggying is principally like being on a curler coaster, solely there’s no monitor … or the rest to cease you from catching legit air as you fly over the dunes. Ahhh!

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Hire a 2-person kayak in Morro Bay

Sharing a kayak is unbelievable romantic…. As long as you’re each respectable at kayaking. In any other case, put on your bathing swimsuit and put together your self for the inevitable.

Anyway, kayaking is hella lovely, and on the Central Coast, it’s further romantic. Hire a kayak at  Kayak Horizons and paddle your approach by way of Morro Bay previous otters with infants perched on their tummies and barking sea lions to the sand spit throughout the harbor.

Don’t overlook to deliver a picnic lunch and a bottle of wine to share!

So many enjoyable issues to do in Morro Bay

Have a romantic meal

There’s a endless stream of romantic AF eating places within the Central Coast! Listed here are our favourite spots to share a romantic meal.

• Home windows on the Water, Morro Bay: Similar to the title implies, this romantic, fancy restaurant is the proper place to dine on contemporary seafood (from Morro Bay, after all. All the seafood right here is native) whereas overlooking the peaceable water within the harbor. Should you’re fortunate, you’ll be capable of watch otters and sea lions play within the water and even catch the sundown!

• Cass Home, Cayucos: Cass Home serves up farm to desk, ocean to plate eating. Positioned in a historic home within the tiny, seaside city of Cayucos, the menu is constructed off of native meals and adjustments seasonally. Should you just like the restaurant, you possibly can keep within the on-site mattress & breakfast, and even get married there: it’s a marriage venue, too. How romantic is THAT?!

• Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo:  One of the best phrase to explain Madonna Inn is “kitschy.” The 2nd finest phrase is “pink.” The Madonna Inn – no relationship to Madonna, it’s simply the proprietor’s final identify – solutions the age-old query: what would occur if Dolly Parton designed the Barbie Dreamhouse?

Visiting the Madonna Inn is an exercise in and of itself. From the lodge, full with themed rooms, to the luxurious spa, to five (!!) totally different choices for foods and drinks, Madonna Inn presents all the things a pair seeking some elaborate, over-the-top kitsch might attainable need.

We suggest visiting for dessert: you completely should order a slice of the Pink Champagne Cake and the Black Forest Cake from the bakery. Bonus factors in case you faux you’re getting married (at Cass Home, probably?) and act such as you need a wedding ceremony cake tasting. Simply don’t say we despatched you. Be cool.

• La Cosecha, Paso Robles: There are tons of unbelievable eating places in Paso Robles, however that is considered one of our absolute favoriets. La Cosecha serves up one of the best South American meals we’ve had outdoors of South America, plus some actually unbelievable craft cocktails We suggest ordering Honduran empanadas, contemporary ceviche, flavorful grilled octopus, and the Clover Membership South cocktail, which reminded us of a raspberry Pisco Bitter. Yum!

Share a slice of olallieberry pie in Cambria

Should you’re on the Central Coast, it’s a must to get a slice of Olallieberry Pie from Linn’s Bakery topped with an enormous dollop of contemporary whipped cream.

What’s an olallieberry, you ask? Principally it’s a mad-scientist mixture of blackberries and raspberries that leads to a tart, candy, completely distinctive California berry. Ask for two forks and further whipped cream (in case you’re me & my husband, at the very least) and dig in!

Catch a flick at Sundown Drive-In

Do not forget that scene in Grease on the drive-in film theatre? That’s gonna be you two! Minus all of the angsty teenaged singing, after all.

Throw in your favourite leather-based jacket and poodle skirt and head to Sundown Drive-In to catch the double characteristic.

Hike by way of seaside cliffs and seashores in Montana de Oro

Stroll hand in hand alongside wildflower-covered cliffs overlooking the ocean because the salty sea breeze attractively blows your hair straight into your face (or, in case you’re a type of genetically blessed Instagram babes, perhaps the wind will do one thing magical and also you’ll appear to be a sun-kissed mannequin goddess with tousled beachy waves. I wouldn’t know, as a result of that’s by no means occurred to me. For the remainder of us, deliver a hair elastic.)

Anyway, seaside waves or not, visiting Montana de Oro is among the most stunning romantic issues to do on the Central Coast.

You’ll drive by way of scented eucalyptus groves proper as much as the ocean, the place you possibly can both loosen up in a secluded inlet cove or take a seaside stroll on sandy paths, watching the waves roll in.

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Share a glass of wine (or 5) in Paso Robles

Paso Robles is the Central Coast’s wine nation. It’s like Napa, however cheaper and extra all the way down to earth. Head over to one of the best wineries in Paso Robles in your cutest sundress to share a flight or 6 together with your sweetheart.

Not a wine lover? Don’t fear, there’s loads of different issues to do in Paso Robles. Like for instance, breweries and distilleries the place all the things is made out of wine grapes and aged in wine barrels. Yum!

So there’s actually no motive not to get day-drunk together with your boo. You’re a grown-up, and wine tasting is completely simply grown-up day ingesting. Lean into it.  

When you’re sufficiently drunk, seize lunch to go at one of many many scrumptious eating places in downtown Paso Robles and have a picnic within the glassy park on the central plaza!

Take an extended, scenic drive

Each time my husband and I hop on the jaw-dropping Pacific Coast Freeway (right here’s a fantastic Pacific Coast highway journey itinerary, btw) to drive all the way down to his hometown on California’s Central Coast, we hearken to a playlist created particularly for this function.

There are a LOT of songs devoted to taking lengthy, scenic drives in California – for a motive! My husband’s private favourite is by The Decemberists.  

In addition to well-known Freeway 1, there are many stunning romantic drives on California’s Central Coast. There’s Turri Street in Los Osos, named one of the stunning roads on this planet by Buzzfeed. Nacimiento-Fergusson highway climbs excessive above Large Sur for much more beautiful coastal views.

The 46 between Paso Robles and Cambria is a fantastic drive by way of farms and rolling hills – as long as it’s not fully lined in misty fog! Or take Winery Drive or Peachy Canyon Street in Paso Robles to wind by way of tree-lined hills studded with vineyards in basic California wine nation.

Watch a surprising sundown in Morro Bay or Pismo Seaside

The West Coast is, for apparent causes, one of the best place to catch the solar setting over the Pacific Ocean. And one of the best place to catch a surprising West Coast sundown is at both Pismo Seaside or Morro Bay.

Carry a blanket and cuddle up on the sand in Pismo Seaside (it will get chilly after sunset!) or benefit from the sundown from one of many many ocean-facing eating places and bars on Morro Bay’s embarcadero.

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Are you completely impressed to pack a cute sundress (and a jacket, cuz the Central Coast will get chilly at night time) and head off with bae for a romantic Central Coast weekend getaway?

Hey, earlier than you go: for much more journey ideas, suggestions, and sensible details about the Central Coast, try our full information to Issues to Do on the Central Coast.

Writer Bio: 

Lia & her husband Jeremy just lately returned from a year-long honeymoon. One way or the other, in between backpacking by way of South America, consuming their approach by way of Europe, making an attempt (& failing) to hike the Inca Path, and by chance operating a automotive right into a citadel in France as soon as (oops), they managed to spend a 12 months straight collectively – like, actually in the identical room collectively, 24 hours a day, for an whole 12 months – and never kill one another. They’re very happy with this achievement. They’ve since settled again in San Francisco the place they’re wanting ahead to speaking to individuals aside from one another generally and in addition being in separate rooms sometimes. You may learn extra about their ridiculous adventures at PracticalWanderlust.com and comply with alongside on Fb, Twitter, & Instagram!

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