Earn Volunteer Hours | About the Area | Maps & Transportation | Lodging | Meals | Parking
To ensure a successful conference we need many volunteers to help during the conference. The hours you volunteer can be applied to your master gardener volunteer hours. Volunteers are needed to help with registration, setting up the photo exhibit, setting up and helping with the silent auction, breakout session hosts, audio visual assistants at the breakout sessions, hosts at the keynote sessions, and logistics coordinators. Training will be provided and you will receive an exclusive commemorative gift if you work for 4 hours. Sign up when you register for classes or contact the Volunteer Coordinator at djhillel@yahoo.com
Links to visitor information (pdf).
About the Asilomar Conference Grounds - The conference is located at the Asilomar Conference Grounds located at 800 Asilomar Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA. The park is known for its dune and beach environments; winter whale migration; sea otters, seals, and shorebirds; and architecture by Julia Morgan and John Carl Warnecke.
Please be prepared to walk throughout the grounds.
The State Park offers several interpertation and education programs and tours (one hour, free). More information.
Area weather
National Weather Service Forecast
Map of the conference grounds (pdf).
Directions and transportation options - from Asilomar.
Asilomar
Set among Monterey pines and cypress, clusters of richly rustic wood and stone buildings will house conference participants. Comfortable rooms vary in size, with two to four persons per room. Rooms have private showers, and bedding is provided. Asilomar rooms DO NOT have telephones.You must make your reservations directly with Asilomar. Fax or mail the Asilomar housing form (pdf) by July 22 to assure reservations. Read more Asilomar lodging details. If you don't specify with whom you would like to share a room on the registration form, you will be assigned roommates of the same gender. (One bed is assigned per person). Spouses will be automatically assigned together if they have the same last name or arrive in the same envelope or fax, but all other roommates must be requested. If you wish to request a roommate who is not registering at the same time as you, you must be staying for the exactly same nights that they are, and make sure that they have also requested you as their roommate. Roommate requests will only be held for 2 weeks from receipt for the other roommate to register.
- Cancellations within 60 days prior to arrival date forfeit all fees.
- All cancellations are subject to a $25 per person processing fee.
- All rates are for full time conference participation. There is no discount for shorter stays.
- Housing rates are per person and include lodging, meals, meeting space rental, and all applicable taxes. Meals begin with dinner on the first day and end with lunch on the last day. Check in 3pm. Check out 12:00 noon.
- Purchase orders and telephone reservations will not be accepted.
- To preserve the refuge atmosphere at Asilomar, our guest rooms are free from the distraction of televisions and telephones. There is a business center located next to the front desk.
- All Guest rooms and meeting rooms are non-smoking.
- Guest information and map of the grounds (pdf).
- Color coded map of the grounds (pdf).
Local Motels
Web links to lodging options (pdf).Hostels
Monterey Hostel, $27.75/night, group rooms, (831) 649-0375 or http://www.montereyhostel.orgCamping/RV
Tent and RV camping is available nearby. CAMPING IS NOT ALLOWED ON THE ASILOMAR GROUNDS. Closest camping is Veteran's Memorial Park (5 miles) with 40 sites; no hook-ups (831-646-3865). Carmel by the River RV Park (12 miles) has 34 sites (831-624-9329 or http://www.carmelrv.com). Saddle Mountain Recreation Park (12 miles) has RV and tent sites (831-624-1617). Laguna Seca Recreation Area (14 miles) has 91 RV and 22 tent sites (831-755-4899. Further afield, Moss Landing RV KOA Park (24 miles) with 46 RV sites (1-877-735-7275 or http://www.mosslandingrvpark.com) and Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park (33 miles) with 40 total tent and RV campsites (831-667-2315).
Asilomar lodging includes the following meals with each night's stay: dinner on the night of stay, breakfast and lunch the next day. Meal times: Breakfast 7:30 - 8:30, Lunch 12:00 - 1:30, Dinner 6:30 - 7:30.
- NOTE: The off-site conference registration fee includes a lunch for Thursday, only. You can pay for additional meals from the online conference registration site.
Parking is available on the conference grounds with a day-use pass. Day-use passes are included with Asilomar guest room reservations and the off-site conference registration fee includes a day-use pass for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Passes for other days can be purchased from the Asilomar registration desk for $9.25/each day.