Consider using a turnout - when it is safe to do so - whenever traffic backs up behind you. A turnout road sign means that the turnout is paved. Not all paved turnouts have a road sign. Most turnouts are unpaved, with dirt and or gravel. Unpaved turnouts do not have turnout road signs, but they are still acceptable to use as turnouts. Camping, camp fires, and sleeping overnight in vehicles are not allowed in turnouts on Highway 1.
California Vehicle Code 21656 - On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time, behind which five or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed.
Pulling over to allow vehicles to pass when five or more vehicles are behind you is the law, but a courteous driver may pull over to allow even one vehicle to pass.
The following are locations of paved turnouts, and there are numerous unpaved turnouts that can be used as well.
MM = mile marker, roadside markers along Highway 1 in Monterey County that indicate the number of miles north of the border between Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.
MM 60 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 59 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 58 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 58 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 57 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 56 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 56 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 55 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 50 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 49 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 48 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 45 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 39 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 29 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 27 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 24 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 18 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 9 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 5 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
MM 5 | Paved Turnout | Northbound Traffic
MM 3 | Paved Turnout | Southbound Traffic
Passing zones may be for northbound traffic only (broken centerline in northbound lane and solid centerline in southbound lane), southbound traffic only (broken centerline in southbound lane and solid centerline in northbound lane), or traffic in both directions (a single broken centerline). Passing zones are scarce on Highway 1. If traffic wishes to pass you, don't speed up.
Consider using a turnout - when it is safe to do so - whenever traffic backs up behind you.
MM = mile marker, roadside markers along Highway 1 in Monterey County that indicate the number of miles north of the border between Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.
MM 72 | Passing Zone
MM 65 | Passing Zone
MM 61 | Passing Zone
MM 59 | Passing Zone | Northbound Only
MM 56 | Passing Zone
MM 54 | Passing Zone
MM 53 | Passing Zone
MM 52 | Passing Zone
MM 50 | Passing Zone
MM 34 | Passing Zone
MM 33 | Passing Zone
MM 28 | Passing Zone | Northbound Only
MM 27 | Passing Zone
MM 26 | Passing Zone
MM 25 | Passing Zone
MM 16 | Passing Zone
MM 15 | Passing Zone
MM 14 | Passing Zone
MM 13 | Passing Zone
MM 10 | Passing Zone
MM 8 | Passing Zone
MM 3 | Passing Zone | Southbound Only