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Carmel Mission is open to the public Monday–Saturday 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m. The admission fee to visit the mission grounds, basilica, and museums is $6.50 for adults, $4 for seniors (age 65 and up), and $2 for children age 7 and up (children under 6 are admitted free). These funds are used to support the continued maintenance and restoration of Carmel Mission. To get there, turn west from Highway 1 onto Rio Road and drive 0.7 mile to the corner of Lausen Drive. For more information, call (831) 624-1271 or visit carmelmission.org.

Ranching & Homesteading

AS MEXICO REDISTRIBUTED the vast mission holdings as land grants, homesteaders claimed several outlying areas of Big Sur. Monterey soon developed into an important Pacific trading port, and the United States began to set its sights on California. Tensions arose between land-owning Californios, as they called themselves, and American pioneers immigrating through the treacherous passes of the Sierra Nevada. Conflict erupted at the outset of the Mexican War in 1846. In 1848, Mexico ceded California to the United States. The following year, gold was discovered in the foothills of the Sierra, and statehood was declared in 1850.