Visit San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo is the perfect getaway known for its soothing climate, vineyard laced hills and amazing sightseeing opportunities to observe nature along the Central Coast. SLO has something for nearly everyone, from relaxing along the pristine Pacific beaches to looking for adventure activities and enjoying the city’s cultural heritage. Visit San Luis Obispo and experience SLO’s breath-taking hikes, vibrant Downtown, award-winning wineries and more. #ShareSLO
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Music by Moonshiner Collective, modified specifically for the City of San Luis Obispo Tourism.
@ 1:00 they’re surfing without wetsuits? Ha ha, you’re kidding right? San Luis Obipso is awesome – but get ready for 59 degree water, even in August. Everyone wears a full wetsuit. And to our wonderful visitors, don’t worry, you can rent a wetsuit for about 10 bucks a day (money well spent if you’re planning on going in the water)
I live here, my friends and I surf without suits occasionally.
I’m from Ireland and compared to here the water over there was waaaay warmer I would never wear a wersuit
Great to see you guys are making some headway! Working at Lido, makes me love ya guys all the more. Cheers
wooo tbid
Incredibly moving. “Thank you kindly….for this place we can find our way”…WOW. My daughter fell in love in college here. Wedding is next month. Beautiful piece – nothing better
It is in the middle of nowhere. It is 18 miles inland and the beaches along that stretch of coast are cold and dreary. The only people who like San Luis Obispo are either evangelical Christian fanatics, or college students that think any place you can drink beer is great. The places to eat at are mediocre at best, but generally bland. The people are uppity about nothing. SLO? Solitary Lonely Outpost. I can think of a few other
I live in Roseville, where the local government is friendly to business, open to economic growth, the people support law enforcement, and the cost of living is reasonable. We are also a short drive to great skiing and hiking, as well as hunting. I don’t need your pity. Of all the different beach towns, ranging from Ventura up to Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo is the least attractive by far. I have seen plenty of cow towns throughout the Valley, but none are as backward as San Luis Obispo. When heading south on the 101 you blink and you are through it.
Hey Dude! Guess what? There is more to life than drinking beer. Guess what else? San Luis Obispo isn’t the only place you can do that. If I had to move back to the coast, I would rather live in either Santa Cruz or Ventura.
The only people who like Roseville are “flatlanders”–and who like a city where it is WAY overgrown. You don’t know when you’re in Rocklin, Roseville, Citrus Heights or Sacramento because they all run together. I live in Grass Valley, so by the time I’ve reached Rocklin everything starts looking the same and is flat–no mountains or other scenery–just more and more burbs and strip malls. But if you like your wide variety of franchises, Roseville has them. SLO is a lot closer than “18 miles inland” as Morro Bay is only 12 miles away. To each his own, but I’ll always take the so-called “cold and dreary” coast over the cold and dreary tule fog that I know Roseville gets and can last for weeks at a time.
Weeks at a time? I have been here nearly 6 years and the winter fog does not last that long. Maybe down in Fresno or Tulare, but not where I am at. You left Lincoln out, when you spoke of places running together. If Roseville gets too much bigger, I will eventually move to Auburn, which I actually like a lot. Flatlander? I haven’t heard that term for a while. The last people I heard that from lived in Rescue and Cool.
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Wow! Thanks! I was hoping to garner advice on where to spend my vacation dollars
and here I land on the words of a suburban sprawl expert from Roseville. You have
stoked my curiosity. I wonder just how a backwards place like San Luis Obispo could
be home to a university highly rated by FORBES and US News & World Report which
produced an airplane and spaceship designer like Burt Rutan, an NFL Coach and
broadcaster like John Madden, NASA astronauts Fred Sturckow, Greg Chamitoff, and
Bob L Gibson, an Apple CFO , Pete Oppenheimer, MLB Hall of Famer Oz Smith, and
Raytheon CEO, Bill Swanson. I guess SLO must have been SO BAD that these notable people
spent 100% of their waking hours pondering their areas of vocational interest. Maybe instead
of spreading a towel out on Avila Beach or listening to music at the far end of Port San Luis l
will head to Roseville to sit in 5pm mid-July traffic at the Hwy65/I-80 interchange. Isn’t there
an In n Out Burger and a water slide nearby?
It is interesting that all the people you mentioned, got the hell out of SLO. As far as In n Out Burger goes, at least Roseville has a couple of them, in SLO you don’t even have one. Roseville has Hewlett Packard and Telefunken. If you choose to go to any of the beaches near SLO, have at it. If cold, dreary and murky is your taste, so be it. Suburban sprawl? It is called business friendly. Where was SLO 20 years ago? Where was Roseville 20 years ago? SLO would have nothing if not for the University. If you want to talk about small college towns, and what they have produced, and what they offer, Chico has SLO beat by a mile.
couldn’t have captured it better in video or lyrics
i go back to this song again and again
the entire city life is on the coast if you dont visit once your nuts
Much different place than the SLO town I grew up in. Cool place; although all my secret places have been discovered. The oak hillsides have largely been turned into vineyards, not a bad thing, just different. I read about SLO county in travel magazines and learn so much, both about writing, as well as what the sleepy place I grew up at has bocome. I do enjoy every visit home nonetheless.
Excellent Video. Excellent place.
Do Not Come Here. It’s Quite Overpopulated Do To Cal•Poly Excepting More Students Than Allowed.*
Anyone worked out the banjo/guitar tabs for this one?
slo=ebmm
Some of my best times ever spent in SLO. I was kidnapped at a party by a beautiful couple. I followed a dude named Jeff around all week trying to upset him just to see if anyone was not super chill. By the end of the week he considered us close friends. SLOnuts is the best donut shop in the nation
Stay the fuck away bakersfield
#drones
So great to see my favorite group back up on stage at the Siren last night! Wow, what a crowd! I love my town! Looking forward to a full summer of music.
Your video of SLO is one of the most entertaining on YouTube. Nice work!
What’s the best time of the year to visit the SLO area?
September and October.
Thanks for the vid that realigned my feelings towards SLO. Loved it in the 80’s. God, what fun I had there!
Nowadays, I live 12 miles away and I rarely go there because of the congestion, parking, cellphone zombies, construction, etc. In spite of all that, it still remains such a beautiful area. It has captured my heart for decades now.
When I visited San Luis Obispo my HS junior year for wrestling invitational, I fell in ‘love’! After that there was no question where I was going to go to college and I did!