Steinbeck Monterey GPS App Walking Tour Mobile Game

e Spanish colonial era to the 20th-century sardine boom. Learn how fishing, labor, and trade shaped the waterfront, then capture a photo that still reflects the bay's working past.

Learn how the shoreline, Ed Ricketts's marine science, and the working waterfront of the 1930s and 1940s informed Steinbeck's realism, then complete a close-looking photo challenge focused on natural detail.

ollapse of the canning industry, and the streetscape that inspired John Steinbeck's 1945 novel. Find surviving industrial features, historic buildings, and markers that reveal the working waterfront behind today's famous promenade.

Explore the plaza, learn key dates from Steinbeck's life and books, and connect local history to Cannery Row, labor, migration, and the rise and fall of the sardine era.

Ed Ricketts and a key site in Monterey's scientific and literary history. Learn how this modest Cannery Row lab, established in 1928, influenced marine ecology, Steinbeck's writing, and the 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition.

Trace Monterey's timeline from the sardine boom and Steinbeck's Cannery Row to the aquarium's 1984 opening and the rise of modern marine conservation.

This stop highlights Monterey Bay's scientific history and its connection to the same coastal world that shaped Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck.

worlds of John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts. This checkpoint combines a short run challenge with the ecological history of Pacific Grove, highlighting key facts from the 1930s and 1940s that shaped modern marine observation and Steinbeck's way of seeing the coast.