Paso Robles is located north of
San Luis Obispo between
King City and
Atascadero along US
Highway 101 near the
Salinas River and Lake Nacimiento.
Its name derives from the Spanish term for "passage of the oaks," for the path followed by Juan Bautista de Anza and his party in 1776. It was the filming location for the 1989 movie, "My Blue Heaven".
