Big Sur Activities, Facilities, and Services
Telephone Services in Big Sur
Cellular telephone services
Don't expect to depend on your cell phone in the Big Sur region. With the exception of the Big Sur Valley area, I have found cellular phone service along the Big Sur coastline to be spotty to non-existent. I found service to be acceptable from Andrew Molera State Park south through the valley of the Big Sur River, and excellent on Highway 1 at the Post Ranch and Ventana vicinity. With a different device and a different provider, you may have results that differ from mine.
The Mobiledia Cell Phone Reception and Towers Search Web site shows cellular towers in or near the following locations in the Big Sur region. There is no assurance that your phone, using your provider, will be able to use them.
- Carmel River Bridge
- Carmel Highlands
- Post Ranch and Ventana vicinity
- Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park (probably serving private property on Partington Ridge)
- Hearst Castle® vicinity
Conventional (landline) telephone services
Public telephones can be found at the following locations in the Big Sur region:
- Carmel River Bridge
- Point Lobos State Reserve
- Carmel Highlands
- Rocky Point
- Big Sur River Inn vicinity
- Big Sur Campground and Cabins vicinity
- Ripplewood and Glen Oaks vicinity
- Fernwood vicinity
- Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
- Big Sur Station
- Big Sur Center and Loma Vista vicinity
- Post Ranch and Ventana vicinity
- Nepenthe and Hawthorne vicinity
- Coast Gallery and Cafe vicinity
- Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
- Pacific Valley
- Gorda
- Ragged Point Inn vicinity
- Hearst Castle® vicinity
