Camillia Lanham

Pizza in Atascadero comes with house-made mozzarella if you hit the right spot. That would be Lebber’s on Traffic Way, which is coming up on its first turn around the sun on Oct. 1. While that may be its first anniversary in downtown A-Town, Lebber’s has been a part of North County’s cuisine scene since 2021, when it started pulling pizzas out of the oven next to Hubba Wines in Tin City, squeezing succulent mozzarella, dipping savory-sweet ricotta, and shredding stracciatella.

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FEATURE There’s no room for error on the Vicente Flat Trail. In some places, slipping off the narrow path means tumbling hundreds of feet down into the canyon surrounding Hare Creek in southern Big Sur. About 5 miles in and 1,800 feet up, the Vicente Flat Campground sprawls out under a redwood grove next to the creek. As the sun was beginning its descent one evening a couple of years ago, a man chopping wood there made a mistake he felt instantly: He swung the ax right into his foot.