The city of Salinas is located on US 101:
- about 50 miles south of San Jose
- 101 miles south of San Francisco
- 325 miles north of Los Angeles
- 18 miles east of Monterey (or should we say East of Eden)
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Main Venue - Sherwood Hall and Community Center
940 North Main Street, Salinas
This is where you
will register, attend workshops, network with agents and other writers.
For more info
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The National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main Street, Salinas
This is where you'll have dinner Saturday night, if you choose that option. The NSC is a state-of-the-art museum and archive of Steinbeck's life and work. For more information, visit their website.
To reach the Steinbeck Center from Sherwood Hall, take North Main southbound. It becomes Salinas Street. Stay on Salinas Street for 1 block and turn left on Central Avenue. Proceed straight ahead to the parking garage entrance.
Parking information - please note that there is a fee for parking around the Center:
- Parking Garage - Enter garage from either Main Street, Monterey Street, or Market Street.
- Parking Lot - Lot is directly across from the Center on Main Street.
- Street parking is limited to 1 or 2 hours in marked spaces.
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The Steinbeck House, 132 Central Avenue is where you'll have Sunday brunch, if you choose that option. For more information about John Steinbeck's boyhood home and birthplace, visit the website.
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Doc Ricketts' lab, 300 Cannery Row, Monterey is the starting point of our Sunday afternoon tour of historic Cannery Row. For information on "Doc" and this area, check out the City of Monterey's website.
From Salinas, take CA-183 west, then CA-183 west to CA-1 south to Monterey.
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The Laurel Inn, 801 West Laurel Drive, Salinas is the official conference hotel. Night owl sessions will be held at the Laurel Inn and we will have a Hospitality Room.
The Laurel Inn is easy to find. Exit Hwy 101 on West Laurel Drive and go east. The hotel is on the right, just past the northbound off ramp.
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