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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…