
This is a limited option, an Uber or ride from a friend must be procured, but may work in your situation.Īir Charter or air taxi is another alternative, where you can catch flights to San Diego for the weekend, or to any large or small airport.

( updated Jun 2021)Ĭentral Coast Shuttle has 7 trips a day between the Los Angeles/LAX and Santa Maria Airport, about 35 miles south. Taxis and Uber/Lyft is available, as well as rental cars, and the 1A and 1B city bus routes link the airport to downtown. Scheduled flights are available from Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle on Alaska Air, American Airlines, and United. San Luis Obispo has a one-terminal airport, 35.236944 -120.641944 1 San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport ( SBP IATA). Welcoming Information Specialists are at the ready to answer questions and provide recommendations on what to do, see, eat and explore during your visit.ģ5☁6′26″N 120☃9′47″WMap of San Luis Obispo

The Visitor Center offers San Luis Obispo city maps, visitor guides, books about San Luis Obispo, and San Luis Obispo souvenirs. ( in the same building as the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, on the corner of Morro and Monterey Streets in the heart of downtown), ☏ +1 805 781-2777, Su-W 10AM-5PM Th-Sa 10AM-7PM.

San Luis Obispo Visitors Center, 895 Monterey St.A few restaurants are located in the charming Railroad District, about 5 blocks east of Higuera via Santa Rosa Street, near the train station and youth hostel. Most restaurants, bars and shops are located on Higuera Street, nearer the Mission and Cerro San Luis hotels are mostly located on Monterey Street, nearer the university but still within a mile of the central downtown. Cal Poly sits hard against Cuesta Ridge (with its big white "P") and the downtown area runs from Cerro San Luis roughly toward campus around two parallel streets, Higuera and Monterey. Both locals and visitors frequently refer to Cerro San Luis as "Madonna Mountain" and a common misconception is that the "M" represents the surname "Madonna " the famous Madonna Inn sits at the foot of the mountain and the city of San Luis Obispo negotiated public access to the peak with the Madonna family.

The town clusters around the feet of the 1,000-foot Cerro San Luis, notably marked with a big white "M" (for Mission High School). San Luis Obispo is bounded by the imposing line of Cuesta Ridge to the northeast, the Irish Hills to the southwest, dramatic Bishop Peak to the northwest and Islay Hill to the southeast. San Luis and its neighboring communities boast extraordinary resources for hiking, mountain biking, sea kayaking, swimming and surfing outstanding natural beauty a carefully preserved and thriving 19th-century downtown centered around a meticulously restored 18th-century mission a small but thriving art gallery scene and a large and growing collection of top-quality wineries. Nestled around two of these peaks is San Luis Obispo ("SLO", "slow", or "San Luis" to locals), a small college town that also is one of California's oldest communities. San Luis Obispo Cerro San Luis (the hill for which the city is named) is on the right Understand Ībout half way between Los Angeles (200 miles to the south) and San Francisco (230 miles to the north), nine small but impressive volcanic peaks march down a valley of the Santa Lucia range to the Pacific Ocean. San Luis Obispo is a city in San Luis Obispo County in the Central Coast region of California.
