Free previewStop 6 of 17-Mile Drive: Pacific Grove to Pebble Beach
The Tree a Company Trademarked
You've pulled off 17-Mile Drive at the viewpoint above Carmel Bay, and out on that knob of granite, all by itself, is the Lone Cypress. Look at the base of the tree, where it meets the rock. That low stone wall wrapped around its roots is the first clue to this story: this tree has been looked after, guarded and even owned, more carefully than almost any tree in America.
Nobody knows exactly how old it is. Counting rings would mean drilling into it, and no one wants to do that. The best guess is that it took root around 1750, when this coast belonged to Spain. The Monterey cypress is a picky species. It grows wild in only two places on Earth, right here in Pebble Beach and down the coast at Point Lobos.
By the 1880s, painters and photographers had found it.
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