This Hotspot is accessed via 17 Mile Drive, which hugs the coast for a mile from Pt. Joe south to the final parking area just north of Bird Rock [Bird and Seal Rocks are in the next Hotspot]. There are public parking areas -- some paved and some gravel -- that give easy access to the coast through the Hotspot. Pt. Joe itself is marked by signs (one says "the Restless Sea"), and there is a paved parking at the Point, and another just northeast that is adjacent to the Point but looks out at Spanish Bay. Heading south from Pt. Joe, there are parking areas just north and just south of China Rock (marked by a sign), a larger gravel parking lot to the south, yet another large parking area where Ocean Road intersects with 17 Mile Drive, and a final dead-end parking lot farther south, just before the huge paved parking lot at Bird Rock (in the next Hotspot). In all, these 7 parking areas on the coast side of 17 Mile Drive provide very easy access to the rocky shores on this coastline. You can also view the golf-courses on the inland side of 17 Mile Drive from the parking lot or even by pulling to the shoulder of 17 Mile Drive. On the northernmost of those golf-course, there is a small pond that is now (2024) heavily overgrown with reeds. [In the past, that pond was not so reedy and the open freshwater attracted ducks, rails, and shorebirds in season, but not so much now.]

Coastal seabirds are the attraction here, along with "rocky shore" sandpipers that are present in winter. The resident breeders are huge numbers of Brandt's Cormorant (nesting colony on Bird Rock in adjacent Hotspot), smaller numbers of Pelagic Cormorant [Double-crested numbers are very small here], Western Gull, and Black Oystercatcher. There a local project that monitors the Black Oystercatcher breeding success every summer, and the species is the iconic "keynote species" for this Hotspot. Pigeon Guillemot is a breeding bird in spring and summer, and routinely seen from shore on or flying over the ocean, but all are gone by September. Resident raptors include Red-tailed and Red-shouldered Hawk, White-tailed Kite, and sometimes Peregrine Falcon. Migrant raptors in fall and winter add Northern Harrier, two Accipiters, and American Kestrel to the mix.
During the summer and well into fall, Brown Pelicans, Heermann's Gulls, and Elegant Terns arrive from Mexico, with numbers varying year to year. In some years there are huge numbers of pelicans. Seawatching can be good in late summer and fall for pelagic species, including shearwaters and alcids and pelagic gulls. Starting in July, and building up over the fall, are numbers of "rocky shore" obligate shorebirds: Black Turnstone, Surfbird, Whimbrel, Willet, Black-bellied Plover, and Sanderling (the latter forage on sandy shores but roost with "rocky shore" species at high tide). In fall and spring migration, Wandering Tattler is regular but scarce, as is Ruddy Turnstone. An occasional Long-billed Curlew or Pacific Golden-Plover is found annually in migration.
Winter brings near-shore migrants, including 3 species of loon, various grebes, Surf Scoters, and sometimes rarities like Long-tailed Duck or Harlequin Duck. Local golf-courses may attract geese. Canada Goose is resident now, but migrant species include Greater White-fronted, Snow, and Ross's Geese. 
Resident landbirds of the coastal dunes include the "Nuttall's" subspecies of White-crowned Sparrow, plus Song Sparrow, Black Phoebe (plus Say's Phoebe in winter), American Crow, and American Goldfinch. Lesser Goldfinch is present in winter, and Lawrence's Goldfinch may be in the goldfinch flocks erratically (it has even nested on rare occasions here). Migrant passerines are sometimes found in the dunes and shore in autumn. 

There is a fee for entrance into 17-Mile Drive at the entrance gates in Pacific Grove, Highway 68, and Hwy 1. There are no public restrooms in this Hotspot, but nice public restrooms are available at Bird Rock parking area, about 1 miles south on 17-Mile Drive from the Pt. Joe parking lot. As this Hotspot runs along the shoreline south of Pt. Joe for a mile, the public restrooms are at the next parking area past the southernmost of various parking lot within this Hotspot.

Pebble Beach is an unincorporated, gated community that encompasses the southwestern portion of the Monterey Peninsula. It is about 10.6 sq.mi. in size and has a population of about 4,500 residents, most in single-family homes. It is internationally known for its golf courses and as a tourist destination. The world-famous 17-Mile Drive hugs the spectacular, rocky coastline; there is a substantial fee to enter 17-Mile Drive or other roads via five 24-hour gates. Public restrooms for tourists are at the Bird Rock parking lot. Upslope, the Del Monte Forest is a dominated by a Monterey Pine forest, portions of which include the SFB Morse Botanical Reserve for endangered species. 

There is a public trail along the shore in this Hotspot from the China Rock parking area south to the Bird Rock parking area in the adjacent Hotspot to the south. The trail is fine for walking but not for wheelchairs; however, there is wheelchair access to the beach in each of the parking areas.