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Welcome to magnificent Anaheim. Anaheim offers a little bit for everyone - including Disneyland Resort. Anaheim is just a few minutes from the California coastline, which means spending a day at one of California's famous beaches like Huntington Beac...
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Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. Tour Angel Island with spectacular views of the Golden Gate and San Francisco while riding on a S...
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Bahia Agua Verde is a remote fishing village located in a cliff-lined bay on the Sea of Cortez. The area is a popular sportsfishing spot in the south of Loreto. The glassy blue waters of Bahia Agua Verde are also ideal for snorkeling, scuba diving an...
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Categories: Bahia Almejas
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Categories: Bahia de Loreto National Park
Categories: Bahia de San Quintin
The great Bahía Magdalena is the gate entrance to the Pacific. It is a unique place and, as a natural reserve of gray whales that arrive to its waters to fulfill their biological cycle during the months of January to March, a great location for whale...
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Bahia San Basilio is a tranquil bay along the eastern coast of Baja California. The bay affords beautiful views of the ocean, as well as kayaking opportunities.
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Bakersfield is California’s 9th largest city and has something to do for everyone. Known primarily for its agriculture production, Bakersfield also is the birthplace of the “Bakersfield Sound,” a unique country music genre that can ...
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Bass Lake is located in California’s Central Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 1 hour north of Fresno, and 17 miles from the southern gate of Yosemite National Park. Bass Lake is a popular vacation spot year-round, providing all day fun in the sun....
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The easygoing suburb of Berkeley, California, sits across the bay from San Francisco. The city is home to the University of California at Berkeley, the incubator for the antiwar movement of the 1960s and a longtime bastion of counterculture. Berkeley...
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Celebrated throughout the world as a destination offering the very best in hotels, shopping, dining, and service, Beverly Hills remains the foremost address for luxury and exceptional living. Although its wide, tree-lined boulevards and legendary man...
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Established in 1902, Big Basin is California's oldest state park, located 25 mi/40 km northwest of Santa Cruz and 65 mi/104 km south of San Francisco. The park has more than 18,000 acres/7,284 hectares of old growth and recovering redwood forest, wit...
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Big Bear Lake, nestled in the San Bernardino Mountains 50 mi/80 km northeast of Los Angeles, is a popular weekend getaway for downhill skiing in the winter and for hiking, mountain biking and swimming in the warmer months. http://www.bigbear.com.The ...
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Big Sur is located in California’s central coast, and is known to be one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world. Nature and wildlife abound in Big Sur, with wildflowers blooming year round, California Condors flying overhead and sea ot...
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Known as the “Small Town with a Big Back Yard,” Bishop is a city in Inyo County, California. It lies at the northern end of Owens Valley, west of the Owens River. Bishop offers a wide array of fantastic adventures in the great outdoors, a...
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Bodega Bay is located in northern California, a beautiful one-hour drive north of the Golden Gate Bridge on the Sonoma Coast. Known for world class golf courses, wineries and restaurants as well as many other great attractions and activities, visitor...
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Buena Park is located in California’s northwestern Orange County. It is home to several popular tourist attractions, including Knott’s Berry Farm theme park and Medieval Times dinner show.
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Today Burbank is a prominent media and entertainment-oriented city which prides itself on a high quality of life, combining 21st century technology with small-town feel. It is, indeed, a city of "people, pride, and progress."
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Cabo Pulmo National Park is Baja Mexico’s National Marine Park and is approximately 60 miles north of Cabo San Lucas. On June 5, 1995, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo introduced Cabo Pulmo National Park to the rest of the world and declared t...
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Cambria is a seaside village of San Luis Obispo County that runs along the western coast of California, USA. It lies within a native forest between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Although Cambria was first inhabited by the Native American Chumash tri...
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This small city by the sea, just north of San Diego, is full of wonderful surprises.
Carlsbad Downtown Village is a place to spend a full day wondering around unique
shops, dining in quaint restaurants and enjoying the sun. Carlsbad is also known...
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Carmel, California, is the kind of place where a person might hand you a poem in the street. It's where at dawn you can get a strong cup of coffee in hand and take a long walk down the beach. You can learn anything you want about dogs, have an authen...
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Categories: Carnelian Bay
Carpinteria offers 12 miles of coastal beaches ideal for swimming, surfing, fishing, camping and tide pool explorations! Located southeast of Santa Barbara, California this small seaside community is known for its surfing swells and gentle waves. In ...
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Catalina Island, also known as Santa Catalina, is one of the Santa Barbara Islands in the Gulf of Santa Catalina off southern California. With an area of 75 sq mi it is rugged and mountainous with an irregular coastline, and is a popular resort and c...
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Channel Islands National Park is one of the great undiscovered attractions in California. It encompasses the five northernmost Channel Islands, which are seaward extensions of the Santa Monica Mountains. The establishment of the 250,000-acre/101,250-...
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Categories: Chatsworth
The little town of Chico, California, located 140 mi/225 km northeast of San Francisco in the Sacramento Valley, is more happening than one might expect, and much of the liveliness stems from the presence of California State University at Chico. A sm...
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Categories: Coalinga
Categories: Coronado
Categories: Costa Mesa
Categories: Crescent City
The history of Culver City includes an era of movie making, a time living on through some of the more favored attractions in the city. One example is the Sony Pictures Museum, which is home to a large collection of motion picture memorabilia dating b...
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Dana Point is a breathtaking Southern California beach town known for its resorts, dramatic coastal bluffs, sandy beaches and seaside recreation opportunities. This coastal playground on the sparkling Pacific offers seven miles of coastline that is f...
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Death Valley National Park is a park of extremes. It is a below-sea-level desert basin and the lowest spot in North America which reaches record summer heats, making it the hottest and driest spot as well. Despite its harshness, it is also home to De...
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Del Mar is an exclusive resort beach town along the Northern San Diego County coast. It is famous for its beautiful beaches, world class restaurants, romantic getaways, fairgrounds and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, “Where the turf meets the su...
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El Segundo is a beach community southwest of Los Angeles. LAX is located here, as well as many large industrial companies such as Boeing, Raytheon and Xerox. Our charming downtown makes El Segundo a wonderful place to live and work.
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Categories: Encinitas
Eureka is located about 275 miles north of San Francisco along one of the most scenic drives in the US. The city has the largest collection of Victorian architecture in California, which gives visitors a rare glance into early California when rich &#...
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Fallbrook is located in lovely North San Diego County, just east of Oceanside. Fallbrook has a peaceful, rural countryside with all the amenities nearby. It's a community of 43,000, spread over 127 square miles. A drive around the area reveals active...
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Fort Bragg, California, 170 mi/274 km north of San Francisco, was once a booming lumber town. It still offers several attractions, particularly in and around its lively downtown business district. Take a drive down to the marinas to watch the fishing...
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Fresno, California, lies in the center of one of the most productive agricultural regions in the U.S.: Trucks piled high with tomatoes or melons pass cars on the highway, many businesses in Fresno are farm-related, and "agrotourism"—tours of farms, o...
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Categories: Garberville
Categories: Garden Grove
Glendale, at the foot of the breathtaking Verdugo mountains, is the third largest city in Los Angeles County and spans over 30 square miles. An ethnically diverse city, Glendale is known for its rich history, natural beauty and commercial accomplishm...
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With the discovery of gold in the foothills east of Sacramento, California's destiny took a dramatic turn in the late 1840s. The California gold rush was on, and the area was invaded by the "forty-niners"—named for the year when most of them arrived....
Categories: Gold Country Area
Categories: Goleta
Greater Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley offers something for everyone. Find spas, hotels, golf courses, restaurants and casinos in Palm Springs, Indian Wells, Desert Hot Springs, Indio, Coachella. Southern California's desert communities offer...
Categories: Greater Palm Springs
Categories: Groveland
Categories: Gualala
Guerrero Negro, located halfway down Mexico's Baja Peninsula, is visited for mainly one reason—it's near Parque Natural de la Ballena Gris (Gray Whale National Park). January-March, gray whales breed and give birth to their calves near the shores of ...
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Categories: Guitar Lake
Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Half Moon Bay is a cozy, coastal village. The
town itself is surrounded by fields of flowers and farmland and the drive there
is just as beautiful as the town itself. Half Moon Bay is home to world-class
bed...
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Categories: Hearst Castle
If you really want to get a feeling for how varied and beautiful California is, the way to go is to follow scenic, winding Highway 1 (also known as the Pacific Coast Highway or PCH) along the Pacific Coast from San Juan Capistrano (between San Diego ...
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Categories: Hollywood
Categories: Hull Canal
Humboldt Redwoods State Park features the largest old-growth redwood forest in the world and is the third largest state park in California. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of outdoor recreational opportunities such as camping, hiking, mountain biking...
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Internationally known as Surf City, Huntington Beach boasts eight miles of scenic, accessible beachfront, the largest stretch of uninterrupted beachfront on the West Coast. Located 40 miles south of Los Angeles, enjoy easy access to great beaches, ch...
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In the center of it all - spectacular beaches, world-renowned shopping, championship golf courses, protected wilderness areas, award-winning restaurants, family-friendly theme parks, prominent arts and culture, and much more. Irvine prides itself on ...
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5th Avenue is the main street that runs parallel to the ocean. Here you will find restaurants, clothing shops selling the latest trends in Europe, Cuban cigar shops, and rum stores. Playa de Carmen's walkway features carnival like attractions such as...
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Categories: Isla Cerralvo
Categories: Isla Coronados
Categories: Isla Danzante
This 23,383-acre island near La Paz is centered in one of the most biologically diverse marine areas in the world – and is a major environmental success story. Several plants and animals are found nowhere else in the world, including the blackt...
Categories: Isla de Espiritu Santo
Isla Ildefonso is located in the Baja Peninsula. Visitors are treated to beautiful desert landscapes, diverse plant life, and a wide range of wildlife. Photographers and nature enthusiasts will enjoy snapping pictures of the yellow-footed gulls, boob...
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Categories: Isla Magdalena
Categories: Isla Monserrat
Categories: Isla Natividad
Islas Partida and Espiritu Santo lie right in the entrance to Bahia de La Paz. Really a single island, seperated by volcanic crator, these islands offer some really incredible anchorages, excellant diving, hiking and wildlife.
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Isla San Francisco is a beautiful island -shaped like a fishing hook- off the coast of Mexico. Visitors have the chance to hike to the top of the mountain for the stunning view and then trek back down to enjoy happy hour on the beach. The island...
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The Islands in the sea of Cortez, Mexico, are among the most beautiful and captivating regions in the world. The remote island of San Jose offers spectacular coastal scenery, fine camping beaches, and an opportunity to really escape from the cro...
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In the northern region of Baja California, Mexico, Isla San Marcos is an island that contains one small town that shares the same name. Though there are no hotels on the island, guests can enjoy the island's location for yellowtail fishing, diving, a...
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Categories: Isla San Martin
Visit lovely Isla Santa Catalina to walk among huge cacti, swim, snorkel, and observe the great diversity of bird life.
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Categories: Isla Santa Margarita
Categories: Islas San Benito
Joshua Tree National Park is located just south of the town of Joshua Tree and 140 mi/225 km east of Los Angeles. With trees that look like they jumped from the pages of a Dr. Seuss children's book, the beautiful park is also a rock climbers' oasis—w...
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Nestled in the 6,000-ft-/2,000-m-high Laguna mountains, about 40 mi/65 km northeast of San Diego, is the former gold-mining town of Julian, California. You can tour the defunct mine's tunnels, ride through town in a horse-drawn buggy and shop for cou...
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Categories: Kings Canyon National Park
Located about 30 minutes north of downtown San Diego, La Jolla (pronounced la HOY-yah) draws surfers and sun-enthusiasts with its mansion-lined beaches . La Jolla claims Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and actor Gregory Peck as famous former residen...
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La Paz is one of the most beautiful towns of northwestern Mexico, and tourism now plays a major role in the city's economy. The Gulf of California is home to over 800 species of fish, including giant manta rays, whales, dolphins, and sea lions. In th...
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The City of La Quinta has something for everyone! There’s golfing at the City’s spectacular public course, SilverRock Resort; dining and shopping in the quaint Village area or along the Highway 111 commercial corridor; biking along ...
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Lafayette is located in Contra Costa County in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Lafayette has its own station on the BART public transit system and is approximately 13 miles from Berkeley and 30 miles from San Francisco. It is known for its beauti...
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Laguna Beach, California, is a picturesque seaside resort town 55 mi/90 km south of Los Angeles on the southwestern edge of Orange County with easy access to the beach. The streets are lined with art galleries, shops, bars and restaurants. You can sp...
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The lagoon is in Baja California and is a haven for migratory whales. The upper part of the lagoon is where females give birth, while in the lower lagoon, visitors will have the chance to see males and females congregating to find a mate. Visitors wh...
Categories: Laguna San Ignacio
Bordering California and Nevada, Lake Tahoe (12 mi/19 km wide and 22 mi/35 km long) is the highest alpine lake in the U.S. The surrounding area (usually referred to simply as Tahoe) is a year-round resort destination with spectacularly beautiful moun...
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The southern tip of the Baja Peninsula is Land's End, the place where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez meet. Along the coast lie towering granite monoliths, including the most dramatic setting in Los Cabos—El Arco, a rock arch that has been ca...
Categories: Land's End Baja
Categories: Lassen Volcano National Park
Livermore is a city of 75,735 residents. Located approximately fifty miles east of San Francisco, Livermore is home to two world-renowned national laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory. Livermore’s herita...
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Lompoc, California, between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, is known for its stunning commercial flower fields. It is also home to Vandenberg Space Force Base. Tours of the base, including a walk through an underground missile silo, can be arrange...
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Categories: Lone Pine
Long Beach boasts a central location to many Southern California attractions and is just a boat ride away to Catalina Island. Visitors can enjoy at day at Aquarium of the Pacific or tour majestic Queen Mary and still have time for a bike ride at suns...
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Loreto has sprawling beaches and the warm waters of Sea of Cortes. Sportfishing in the Sea of Cortez is world-famous. Known as the Dorado (mahi-mahi) capital. Scuba diving in Loreto is a unique and exciting experience the wide variety of marine fish ...
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Much of Los Angeles lies in a fairly flat basin, surrounded by mountains and ocean. Although the Santa Monica Mountains, one of the most unheralded of the city’s remaining natural treasures, splits LA between the familiar sights of La-La Land to the ...
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Long Beach is the place to start with its central location to Southern California attractions and just a boat ride away to Catalina Island. Visitors can enjoy at day at Aquarium of the Pacific or tour majestic Queen Mary and still have time for a bik...
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San Pedro is Los Angeles' busiest port city. Just minutes from the port you will find a variety of attractions such as the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Los Angeles Maritime Museum, and Fisherman's Warf. Visitors will find many shops, galleries...
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Los Cabos is a magic land full of contrast, from breathtaking seas, to desert and mountains. Also known as “Land’s End” for being located at the tip of the southern Baja California Península. Step into the extraordinary world of Los Cabos where the u...
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Categories: Los Gatos
Los Islotes includes a wetland preserve, as well as an estuary visited by monkeys and other wildlife. Behind the community lies a range of green and rugged mountains, including Cerro Hoya, the highest peak on the Azuero Peninsula. Lo...
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Los Olivos, California, is a small, charming and historic town located in the Santa Ynez Valley, about 10 minutes from Solvang and 128 mi/206 km northwest of Los Angeles. Named after the first ranch in the area, which had 5,000 olive trees, the town ...
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Categories: Malibu
The Mammoth Lakes area is notable because it gets an unusually large amount of snow compared to other peaks in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which lies in the Inyo National Forest. This has made Mammoth Mountain one of the premier ski des...
Categories: Mammoth Lakes CA
Ever wonder what happened to all the hippies who were in Haight-Ashbury in 1968 but had disappeared by 1970? Some of them—including many of the rock bands—moved to Marin County. A lot of other people moved there, too, and for good reason: Marin is ri...
Categories: Marin County
Categories: Marina del Rey
Mariposa is a charming small town, and remains one of only a few towns in California without a stop light. Experience, an authentic Pioneer experience at the Mariposa Museum of History or visit the California State Mining and Mineral Museum, which co...
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Mendocino is best known for its spectacular scenery and distinctive wineries, although most people escape to Mendocino to relax.
Mendocino with its beautiful coastline and picturesque wineries, welcomes all adventurous romantics who travel the sceni...
Categories: Mendocino County
Categories: Menlo Park
Categories: Merced
Mill Valley is a shady, artsy community in Marin County populated by millionaires and famous names. Located at the base of Mount Tamalpais (known affectionately by locals as Mount Tam), it's about a 30-minute drive north from San Francisco. The downt...
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Modesto is located in California's Central Valley, approximately 66 miles from Yosemite National Park and 68 miles from Sacramento, the state's capital. Visitors enjoy downtown Modesto's restaurant's and nightlife as well as Modesto&#...
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A trip through California's vast Mojave Desert, which takes up one quarter of the state, is an intensely rewarding experience, especially if you've never been in a large desert area before. Unless you happen to be passing through on your way into or ...
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Formations of tufa, a spongy form of calcium carbonate, tower in the Mono Lake state reserve just east of Yosemite National Park at the base of the Sierra Nevada and 180 mi/290 km east of San Francisco. Initially formed underwater, the eerie, netherw...
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The historic town of Monterey lies on a peninsula at the southern end of beautiful Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean about 85 miles south of San Francisco. Formerly the Mexican capital of California and a whaling and fishingport, Monterey is now mai...
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Morro Bay is a Californian coastal community with beautiful state parks, a bird estuary and the distinct Morro Rock, the last chain of long-extinct volcanoes. Morro Bay was once a Chumash settlement however it was in the late sixteenth century when t...
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Muir Woods is known for it's unique ecosystem and giant redwood trees. The woods contain several different trails and hikes that extend to surrounding parks. Other activities for visitors include pets, bicycling, and horseback riding. Because M...
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The Napa River stretches across fifty miles of beautiful California scenery. Visitors wanting to see the wildlife along the river and stop in at different culinary institutions throughout the Napa Valley may choose to take a river cruise. Nature love...
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Napa Valley is home to premier wine producers, restaurants, resorts, spas and beautiful scenery. The mixture of climate and soil are virtually perfect for growing the type of grapes required to produce premium wines. As a result of this marriage of c...
Categories: Napa/Sonoma Wine Region
Welcome to the Newport Beach California. The "Colorful Coast," one of Southern California's most vibrant recreation and entertainment centers. Famous worldwide for its picturesque sandy beaches, majestic coastline, infinite recreational activities, a...
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Categories: Nopolo
Categories: North Hollywood
Categories: Northstar
Categories: Oakhurst
Oakland, California, which is situated on the mainland side of San Francisco Bay, is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. (more than 80 languages and dialects are spoken there). There's a small Chinatown with authentic dining options...
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The city of Ojai is nestled in the hills 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles near Santa Barbara. Its name is thought to be derived from a Chumash Indian word meaning "moon', but some residents feel an earlier interpretation of the word meaning "the nes...
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Ontario, California is located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles in San Bernardino County. It is home to the LA/Ontario International Airport, as well as museums and attractions for the the whole family.
Categories: Ontario CA
The drive on Interstate 5 from Los Angeles south to San Diego takes you through Orange County, one of the most populous suburban areas in the country. On your way south, take at least a day for Disneyland and Anaheim's other attractions. Then head ba...
Categories: Orange County
Categories: Pacific Grove
Categories: Palm Desert
Categories: Palo Alto
Categories: Paradise CA
Categories: Pasadena
Paso Robles is located north of San Luis Obispo along the Salinas River and is know for its wineries as well as olive oil production and almond orchards. Visitors have traveled to Paso Robles for the thermal springs since the mid 1850s, and mineral b...
Categories: Paso Robles
Patrick's Point State Park is located in the center of California's redwood country, just 25 miles north of Eureka in Humboldt County. Visitors can enjoy a wide array of outdoor activities including camping, hiking trails, cycling, accessible...
Categories: Patrick's Point State Park
Categories: Petaluma
Categories: Pichilingue
The other-worldly landscape of Pinnacles National Park, located east of Highway 101 near Soledad, about 40 mi/64 km inland of Monterey, is the vestige of an ancient volcanic eruption that occurred in Southern California along the San Andreas Fault. T...
Categories: Pinnacles National Monument
Categories: Pismo Beach
Port Hueneme is a port on the south central coast of California, 60 miles north of Los Angeles and 50 miles south of Santa Barbara. It is home to the U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Center for Pacific operations. The Seabee Museum can be visited in...
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Just 50 miles north of Eureka, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is located in the heart of redwood country. Hike or camp next to the majestic coast redwood, the world's tallest living tree species. Take a gentle walk to Fern Canyon, and watch fo...
Categories: Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
Categories: Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Categories: Puerto Agua Verde
Categories: Rancho Las Cruces
Categories: Rancho Palos Verdes
Categories: Rancho Santa Fe
Categories: Red Bluff
Redwood City, California, is rich in history and local lore. From its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone tribe of North America, to its tradition as a port for lumber and other goods, and to its place as the county seat, the community of Redwood Cit...
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This national park in far northwest California, 255 mi/410 km north of San Francisco, is named for its giant redwood trees—including Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world, measuring 379 ft/116 m. (Redwoods were once found in many parts of the world...
Categories: Redwood National Park
Categories: Rehusa Channel
Part of the "Inland Empire" east of Los Angeles proper, Riverside is another piece of Southern California's urban sprawl, yet far enough out of Los Angeles to feel detached from the city. Vaguely Spanish-style roofs stretch toward all horizons, threa...
Categories: Riverside
Categories: Rohnert Park
Sacramento, California's, role in the gold rush of the mid-1840s gave the city its nostalgic charm, but that's just a part of this capital city's appeal. Although historic Old Sacramento re-creates the city's gilded history, modern Sacramento's high-...
Categories: Sacramento
San Diego is a city offering a little for everyone. Tons of beaches line San Diego's coastline, ranging from the surfer's beach to the family beach to the private romantic beaches hidden away from the crowds. Attractions like Sea World and the world ...
Categories: San Diego
Categories: San Evaristo
Blessed with a viable fog-cooled and sun-kissed climate and a dramatic landscape, the San Francisco Bay Area is a visual feast where neither water nor hills are ever too far away. Add to this the cultural medley: Within every neighborhood, from Santa...
Categories: San Francisco
San Jose is also known as "Silicone Valley". There are very diverse sights and attractions to enjoy as well as a great climate. Warm summers and mild winters offer just about anything anyone could look for in a vacation spot. The ocean is close by f...
Categories: San Jose (CA)
Categories: San Jose Channel
Categories: San Juan Capistrano
Straddling Highway 101 between Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Luis Obispo is a quaint, convenient stop-off for travelers on Highway 1, the scenic coast highway. It's the home of California State Polytechnic University and is known for its Thursda...
Categories: San Luis Obispo
Categories: San Pablo Bay
The peaceful town of San Rafael, California, the government seat of Marin County, is home to a replica of the 1817 Mission San Rafael Archangel, the Falkirk Cultural Center (built in 1888) and the Marin History Museum. The city makes a great base for...
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Few places in the U.S. are as opulent as the Hearst Castle, which publisher William Randolph Hearst built in 1919 in the hills above San Simeon, California. It is roughly the halfway point between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Outfitted with importe...
Categories: San Simeon
Santa Barbara is a city with a great deal to offer. The diversity of attractions and sights is enormous. California's wine country has beautiful landscapes, the pacific ocean with all of its life and beauty, and architecture of the missions built by ...
Categories: Santa Barbara
Categories: Santa Clara
Santa Claritais home to exciting attractions including: Six Flags Magic Mountain, The Greens at Valencia, Mountasia Family Fun Center, Ice Station Valencia, Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour & Restaurant, Agua Dulce Vineyards, Proving Grounds Santa Clarita...
Categories: Santa Clarita
Categories: Santa Cruz Island
Located 65 mi/105 km south of San Francisco, Santa Cruz is in many ways the quintessential California town, combining a laid-back counterculture atmosphere with plenty of shore activities and, of course, surfing. The historic boardwalk contains one o...
Categories: Santa Cruz CA
Located 168 mi/270 km north of Los Angeles, Santa Maria, California, is famous for its traditional style of barbecue. Check out the Barbecue Hall of Fame at the local historical society museum. Addition sights include the Dunes Center, home to the 19...
Categories: Santa Maria CA
Santa Monica is a popular destination exploding with impeccable services. Downtown Santa Monica is a vibrant retail, dining and entertainment area in the heart of the city. Nestled on L.A.’s fashionable Westside, just seconds from the Pacific Ocean, ...
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Santa Rosalía is an isolated town located on the Sea of Cortés. It possesses its own unique style of French architecture, built by a French mining company in exchange for mineral rights. Places of interest include Santa Barbara church, originally des...
Categories: Santa Rosalia
Sausalito is located just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, on the southeastern tip of Marin County, California. Sausalito was incorporated in 1893, and named by 18th century Spanish explorers for the "little willow" trees (Saucelito) which were found...
Categories: Sausalito
A hundred miles north of San Francisco on California Coast Highway 1, the Sonoma/Mendocino Coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. Ocean waves crash upon the rocks, California Grey Whales pass on their annual trek from the A...
Categories: Sea Ranch
Categories: Seaside CA
Sequoia National Park is located in the southern Sierra Nevada in the United States. This is one of California's well-visited destinations. Sequoia is mostly famous for its camping, hiking and crystal caves.
Categories: Sequoia National Park
You may not have time to see the mountainous Shasta/Cascade region on your first visit to Northern California, and even repeat visitors may find it a little difficult to work into their itineraries. But this area of majestic beauty and plentiful outd...
Categories: Shasta/Cascade Region
Categories: Sierra Nevadas
Solvang, California, a Danish-American community in the Santa Ynez Valley less than an hour's drive from Santa Barbara, has windmills—which are lit at night with strings of white lights—and shops built in the Danish style that sell imported Danish ch...
Categories: Solvang
Categories: Squaw Valley
Categories: Stockton
Suisin Bay is located in Northern California, just north of Contra Costa County in the United States. It got its name in 1811 honoring a Native American tribe in the new area called the Suisines. Suisin Bay is home for many World War II U.S. Na...
Categories: Suisin Bay
Categories: Sundance
Categories: Temecula
Lying between the two towns, the Corridor is the most scenic and valuable stretch of land in Los Cabos and home to huge beach resorts. Three large-scale developments—the Palmilla, Cabo Real and Cabo del Sol—have consumed much of the land and will eve...
Categories: The Corridor
Consider driving or taking a bus or guided tour up the Pacific coast to Todos Santos, 50 mi/80 km north of Cabo San Lucas. The road (Highway 19) passes gorgeous, isolated stretches of beaches where waves crash on the sand. You may also spot some of t...
Categories: Todos Santos
Covering 9,000 acres/3,642 hectares and located within eyeshot of the Pacific Ocean, the small town of Topanga, California, is a perfect retreat from the traffic jungle of LA for locals and travelers alike. Topanga Canyon contains both Topanga State ...
Categories: Topanga
Categories: Trinidad CA
Categories: Truckee (CA)
Categories: Tulare
Categories: Tuolumne
Categories: Turlock
Categories: Twentynine (29) Palms
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Categories: Vallejo
Van Nuys is centrally located in Southern California, where both residents and visitors can enjoy all the big city events and activities with the ability to retreat to a smaller community. Located north of Los Angeles, Van Nuys is located near premie...
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Charming communities are found along California's coastline, each with its own special qualities. But few reflect California's distinctively diverse, relaxed and friendly personality like Ventura does. Ventura, the getaway to the Channel Islands Nati...
Categories: Ventura
Categories: Visalia
West Hollywood is located in Los Angeles County just west of Hollywood between Beverly Hills and Hollywood along Highway 2. A short distance from the beach, mountains, and studios, and filled with over 135 restaurants and top-rated entertainment venu...
Categories: West Hollywood
Westlake Village is a frequent travel destination for tourists, business visitors, and passing highway travelers. About halfway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, the community is built along both sides of U. S. Highway 101. Visitors and resident...
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Categories: Whittier
Yosemite National Park embraces a spectacular tract of mountain-and-valley scenery in the Sierra Nevada, which was set aside as a national park in 1890. The park harbors a grand collection of waterfalls, meadows, and forests that include groves of gi...
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Yucca Valley is a city in the San Bernadino County of California and lies in the middle of the Morongo Basin. It borders the San Bernadino Mountains in the west and Joshua Tree National Park to the south. This low desert valley has rich western and m...
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