Santa Rosa is the biggest city in Sonoma County, and it works as two trips in one: a walkable small city with a Peanuts museum, a historic railroad district, and one of the most famous Read more…
Just 45 minutes south of San Francisco, the San Mateo coast trades city noise for fog, farm stands, and wide-open beaches. This Half Moon Bay travel guide covers everything you need to plan a visit: Read more…
This Berkeley travel guide covers one of the East Bay’s most rewarding cities: set between the Berkeley Hills and the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley packs a world-class university, hilltop parks, a working marina, and a Read more…
This Oakland travel guide is for anyone who’s wondered what’s across the Bay Bridge. Oakland rewards curious travelers with a lake in the middle of the city, a world-class museum of all things California, a Read more…
San Jose is the heart of Silicon Valley — and one of the most underrated weekend trips in Northern California. This San Jose travel guide covers the best things to do, from the labyrinthine Winchester Read more…
Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco sits a waterfront town that feels like a different country: Sausalito. Mediterranean-style hillsides, houseboats that look like art, a promenade with skyline views — and a Read more…
Welcome to this Santa Monica travel guide. Santa Monica is the beach town most people picture when they think of California: miles of wide sandy beach, a historic amusement pier over the Pacific, and a Read more…
Mono Lake is the strangest, most beautiful stop on California’s Highway 395 corridor. This Mono Lake guide covers everything you need: the tufa towers at South Tufa, the birds and brine shrimp behind the lake’s Read more…
Ventura sits where Southern California’s surf-town era refuses to fade: a working harbor, a wooden pier from 1872, a mission from 1782, and the main jumping-off point for Channel Islands National Park, about an hour Read more…