Virtual Guidebook to Monterey, Big Sur and the Central Coast
Pacific Grove
on the Monterey Peninsula California

Pacific Grove calls itself "America's last hometown". I was fortunate enough to live there for three years and certainly enjoyed the experience, despite the lack of reasonable employment possibilities (I was teaching community college half-time). The downtown is compact and quiet, the adjacent neighborhoods packed with Victorian buildings large and small. The weather is always cool but often mildly sunny, and I loved the low-sweeping fog. There are tourists but never crowds.

Pacific Grove can be seen in many movies, notably "Turner and Hooch" with Tom Hanks and a really slobbery dog.