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Overview
About Homestead Restaurant
Why stop
- Redwood dining room and river-facing patio
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Pfeiffer Big Sur Tour Guide
Your drive to Homestead Restaurant, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Big Sur Lodge and Redwood Deck0:00 / 0:30
“Up ahead is the Big Sur Lodge area, with Redwood Deck nearby for a close look at the trees without a strenuous hike. These coast redwoods are near the southern edge of their natural range.”
Plays as you drive up to Homestead Restaurant in the Parkwolf Pfeiffer Big Sur Tour Guide.
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- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
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More about Homestead Restaurant
A meal in the redwoodsHomestead is the restaurant and bar at Big Sur Lodge, with indoor dining among the redwoods and…
Homestead is the restaurant and bar at Big Sur Lodge, with indoor dining among the redwoods and an outdoor patio overlooking the Big Sur River. It suits a meal while you're already in Pfeiffer Big Sur; the setting is the reason to choose it. I'd stop here during a park visit rather than make a separate trip just to dine.
Inside or by the riverThe timber dining room looks toward the redwoods through broad windows.
The timber dining room looks toward the redwoods through broad windows. The patio is the pick if you want the river view, and it's right at the restaurant rather than a separate walk. Inside, the trees remain part of the view.
A long hospitality historyJohn and Florence Pfeiffer settled in a cabin beside the Big Sur River in 1884, and Florence's…
John and Florence Pfeiffer settled in a cabin beside the Big Sur River in 1884, and Florence's cooking drew travelers. In 1908 the homestead became the Pfeiffer Ranch Resort, where visitors paid for meals, beds and horses. Big Sur Lodge stands on the same site today, giving Homestead a direct connection to Big Sur's early visitor history.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Pfeiffer Big Sur
10 sightingsCalifornia CondorMost seen around 1 PMSighting map
55 sightingsWild TurkeyMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
100 sightingsMule DeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
36 sightingsTurkey VultureMost seen around 1 PMSighting map
46 sightingsAcorn WoodpeckerMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
11 sightingsGray FoxMost seen around 6 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Pfeiffer Big Sur. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
