17 Mile Drive Tour Guide

Welcome to 17 Mile Drive! This stunning scenic drive in California is a must-do day trip from San Francisco and an easy detour from the Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1) road trip.

Are you ready to turn your phone into a personal tour guide? This GPS-enabled app offers a fully-guided experience - just like a local giving you a personalized, fully-guided tour.

17 Mile Drive Self-Guided Tour:
# On this 17 Mile ​Drive​ tour, discover the world-famous 250-year-old Lone Cypress tree, a plethora of sea lions and seals on the shore, and the beautiful Pebble Beach.
# Our 17 Mile Drive tour also covers popular Monterey sights outside of the core drive, including the Aquarium, Cannery Row, and Pacific Grove’s Asilomar Beach.
# Enhance this scenic trip with fun facts, historical accounts, and local knowledge!

Big Sur Tour:

# Start at Monterey/Carmel and end at Morro Bay/Pismo Beach/San Louis Obispo.
# Drive past picturesque Carmel cottages, Instagram-famous Bixby Bridge, beautiful McWay Falls, and the amazing Elephant Seal Vista Point.
# Learn about the flora, fauna, geology, and geography of the gorgeous coastline and mountain ranges you see!

This app-based tour has significant benefits over other apps and over live guides:

1) Easy to use
2) Fully automatic
3) Fascinating stories
4) Freedom to travel anytime
5) Save a lot - real savings
6) Visualize what you cannot see directly
7) Take the story home

1) Easy to use: Download the app on your own phone. Then download the tour(s) you’re interested in taking. Simply follow the GPS map & the routing line. The tour takes you to every single stop; you won’t miss a thing and won’t get lost.

2) Fully automatic: Each point of interest along the tour has a narrated story, narrated directions, and helpful images, gifs or videos. As you walk along the path and approach a pin, it’s story will automatically pop up and start playing.

3) Fascinating stories: Engaging, accurate, and entertaining story about each point of interest. The stories are professionally narrated and prepared by local guides. Most stops also have additional stories that you can optionally choose to hear.

4) Freedom to travel: No scheduled tour timings, no crowded groups, and no rush to move along past stops that interest you. You have total freedom to skip ahead, linger, and take as many photos as you’d like.

5)Save a ton: No “per person” tickets for guided tours! No tips per person.

6) Visualize: what you cannot see: most stops have images, some have animated gifs from different centuries, seasons, or for interior rooms.

7) Take the story home: Enjoy the tour before, during, and after your visit. Easily create an album or share the images & stories with your friends and family.

What comes with the FREE Demo app:
Tips to plan the trip. Help using the app.
Map with a guided routing line.
List of all the stops that you will come across on the tour.
Preview: A few fascinating stories with professional narration, stops with images, videos, or gifs, and transcripts if you prefer to read instead of listening.

With the In-App purchase, you’ll get:
All of the above features.
Full access to all the stories.
GPS Automatic Play for the stories.
Take all the stories home.

Award-winning app platform:
This app is created using an award-winning platform. The developers received the famous “Laurel Award” from the Newport Mansions, which uses it for over a million tours per year.

Quick tips:
Familiarize yourself with the app while at home.
Allow a couple of hours for the tour.
Don’t hesitate to reach out immediately if you face an issue! We are committed to responding as quickly as possible.

What are you waiting for? Just download the app and get started!

NOTE: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
This app uses your location service and GPS tracking feature to allow real-time tracking of your route.