Introduction to Carmelby FROMMER'SNovember 20, 2006 Carmel began as a seaside artists' colony that attracted such luminaries as Sinclair Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ansel Adams. Residents resisted assigned street numbers and lighting, and carried lanterns, which they considered more romantic. Although it's still intimate enough that addresses remain unnumbered -- Carmel's inns, restaurants, boutiques, and galleries identify their locations by cross streets -- the ragtag bohemian village of yesteryear is long gone. Carmel is now a tourist hot spot, where weekend traffic can be intolerable and lodging rates grossly inflated. But thousands of annual visitors are so taken with the eclectic dwellings, quaint cafes, majestic cypresses, and silky white beaches that they don't seem to mind the modern inconveniences. (read article)
36 Hours in Carmel-by-the-Seaby JAIME GROSSJanuary 25, 2009With its storybook English cottages, this small town in Northern California resembles a Disneyland version of Europe.(read article)