Cars & Coast — Monterey Peninsula Car Culture Map
The complete guide

Everything the map can do

Cars & Coast is more than a list of pins. Here is every feature — what it is and exactly how to use it — from planning a Car Week day to flying the Corkscrew in 3D and taking the wheel of the Carmel beach cam.

Find & plan

Everything happening on the Peninsula, on one map you can filter and turn into a plan.

Interactive map

Art galleries, museums, car venues, racetracks, beaches, restaurants and hotels across the Peninsula. Tap any pin to open its details — tickets, parking, and a route straight to it.

Open the map
Live layers panel

Tides, ships (live AIS), wildlife, fire hotspots, traffic, transit, weather, earthquakes and webcams. Open the Layers drawer and toggle on whatever you want to see.

Events directory

Every car & art event, filterable by type, date and area. Use the Car Week window filter to see just the Aug 7–16 events.

Browse Car Week events
Car Week 2026, mapped

All 10 days on one page with parking notes. Tap “.ics” on any event — or the whole week — to subscribe in your own calendar.

See the Car Week board
“Get here” buttons

Open any pin and tap Directions, Uber or Lyft — the destination is filled in for you, so you jump straight to your maps or rideshare app.

Drive

Curated routes, a day builder, and live trip tracking for the drive itself.

Featured drives

Six curated adventures — Big Sur Classic, 17-Mile Drive, Laguna Seca race day, Carmel Valley wine run, Santa Cruz coastal, and Steinbeck country. Tap one to load the whole route on the map.

See featured drives
Build your own day

Pick the events you want, and the map orders them into a road trip with drive times between each stop.

Start building a day
Trip follow

Tap Start Trip and the map tracks your GPS, advancing to the next stop as you arrive at each one.

Drive replays

Record a drive and get a shareable Drive Card of the route. Your top speed stays private unless you choose to show it.

Scenic flythroughs

Cinematic camera runs over the road — sweep Laureles Grade and more without leaving your chair.

Fly Laureles Grade
Elevation profiles

Every scenic drive shows its climb and drop, so you know the terrain before you set off.

See it in 3D

Tilt the whole Peninsula into relief and orbit the landmarks that matter.

3D terrain toggle

Tap the 3D button at the bottom-left of the map to tilt the whole Peninsula into relief. The map remembers your choice on this device.

Open the map in 3D
The Corkscrew in 3D

Orbit Laguna Seca’s signature turn and see its 59-foot drop from every angle.

Fly the Corkscrew
3D landmarks

With 3D on, the Laguna grandstands, the Lodge and Cannery Row rise into real, solid mass instead of flat markers.

Satellite view

Switch the base map to satellite imagery to see the real coastline, fairways and paddock from above.

Join in

Check in, spot rare cars, earn badges, and share your own map with your club.

Check in at events

Tap “I’m here” at any event, with an optional car and photo, to see who else is at the meet.

Spot-the-car sightings

Snap a rare car with 👀, tag the marque, and pin it to the neighborhood — never your exact spot. Sightings stay live for 24 hours.

Achievement badges

Finish a featured drive with recording on, or hit check-in milestones, to earn a shareable badge card stamped with your number (#N).

Tribes

Air-cooled, JDM, vintage racing, muscle, overland — pick a themed map view to share with your club.

See the air-cooled view
Make a meet

Create your own cars & coffee, drop it on the map, and collect RSVPs from anyone who joins.

Coast Passport

Collect a stamp for every place you visit and build up your own record of the Peninsula.

Save & share maps

Save your layer setup and pins as a link anyone can open — or fork to make their own version.

See saved maps
Live counts

See how many people are on the map right now — handy during Car Week when the meets fill up fast.

Live camera

A real camera on Carmel beach that you can actually steer.

Carmel beach live cam

Watch the beach live, then take the wheel: one driver at a time gets a 90-second turn on the pan-tilt-zoom controls, with 10 preset views to jump between. Wait your turn, then steer.

Open the live cam

Ready to explore?

Open the map
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