Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
A4
Sights
San Luis Obispo Creek, once used to irrigate mission orchards, flows through downtown.
Uphill from Higuera St,
Mission Plaza
is a shady oasis with restored adobe buildings and
fountains overlooking the creek. Look for the
Moon Tree
, a coast redwood grown from a
seed that journeyed on board Apollo 14's lunar mission.
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
CHURCH
9am-5pm late-Mar-Oct, to 4pm Nov-mid-Mar)
Those satisfyingly reverberatory bells heard around downtown emanate from this active
parish dating from 1772. The fifth California mission founded by JunÃpero Serra, it was
named for a 13th-century French saint. The modest church has an unusual L-shape and
whitewashed walls decorated with Stations of the Cross. An adjacent building contains an
old-fashioned museum about daily life during the Chumash tribal and Spanish colonial
periods.
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
MUSEUM
11am-5pm, closed Tue early Sep-early Jul)
By the creek, this small gallery showcases the work of local painters, sculptors, print-
makers and fine-art photographers, as well as traveling California art exhibitions.
Bubblegum Alley
STREET
