Destinations · California
Santa Maria
CA · 34.9514, -120.4333
San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway - Route 1 is a signed byway within 30 miles of Santa Maria, California.
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Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Santa Maria are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway - Route 1 · 13 mi · national
Public land
- Los Padres National Forest · 12 mi
Campgrounds
- Colson Campground · 15 mi
- Horseshoe Springs Campground · 19 mi
- Baja Campground · 21 mi
- Brookshire Campground · 21 mi
- Hi Mountain Campground · 21 mi
- Paradise Campground · 21 mi
- Buck Spring Campground · 22 mi
- Miranda Pine Campground · 23 mi
Lookouts
- Lover's Point · 19 mi
- Lone Oak · 19 mi
- The Notch · 19 mi
- Concrete Turret · 19 mi
Named places
- Santa Maria Natural History Museum · 0 mi
- Rosalind Perlman Park · 0 mi
- Simas Park · 0 mi
- Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce and Museum · 0 mi
- Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum · 0 mi
- Veterans' Memorial Park · 1 mi
- Alice Trefts Park · 1 mi
- Buena Vista Park · 1 mi
A day out of Santa Maria, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Nipomo · 6 mi
- Guadalupe · 8 mi
- Arroyo Grande · 15 mi
- Oceano · 15 mi
- Grover Beach · 16 mi
- Pismo Beach · 19 mi