Pacific Grove, CA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A few miles north of Monterey along the peninsula, PACIFIC GROVE – or "Butterfly Town USA," as it likes to call itself – began as a campground and Methodist retreat in 1875, where Christian revivalists prohibited booze, bare skin and reading the Sunday newspapers, and which still holds ornate wooden cottages from those long-forgotten days. One of the few other reminders of that pious period is the Gothic Revival church St Mary's by the Sea , Central Ave at 12th Street, an 1887 redwood marvel with a signed Tiffany window near the altar. Ocean View Boulevard circles the coast around the … more »