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.
Camille T. Dungy is an author whose recent books include Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History, and her fourth poetry collection, Trophic Cascade. She has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry.