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Anacapa Island is the closest, smallest, and easiest first taste of Channel Islands National Park, and this Anacapa Island guide is built around its two best experiences: paddling sea caves…

Some redwood groves make you earn the payoff with a long drive and a steep climb. Armstrong Redwoods does the opposite. Three miles north of Guerneville, an 805-acre grove of…

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park protects some of the finest old-growth coast redwood forest left on Earth, and it pairs that forest with a fern-draped canyon, a wild beach, and…

A Santa Cruz Island day trip is the wildest single day you can have off the Ventura coast. One hour on a ferry from Ventura Harbor, and you step onto…

The Sonoma Coast is California’s wild edge: 17 miles of Highway 1 where wide sandy beaches sit below grassy bluffs, sea stacks rise out of the surf, and summer fog…

At the far north end of Napa Valley, where Highway 29 runs out of vineyards at the foot of Mount St. Helena, sits Calistoga, a small town that runs on…

High on the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Castle Rock State Park feels like a different world from the valley floor below, where sandstone outcrops rise out of redwood…

Few places in California deliver a first impression like Emerald Bay. The road rounds a bend on Highway 89, and the whole bay opens below: deep blue-green water ringed by…

Lodi sits 35 miles south of Sacramento in the San Joaquin Valley, and it offers some of the most relaxed wine tasting in California. This Lodi wine country guide is…