California Driving Trip Of The Northern Coast In Addition To Vino Province – Highway 101, Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino

Beautiful Northern Coast of California

California Driving Trip of the Northern Coast together with Wine Country – Highway 101, Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino (10/1-12/2012) – This is the position dorsum uncrowded California that you lot dream near – together with it’s real!

Pat amongst Our Toyota Venza 
- Trididad, California

We drove California’s beautiful Northern Coast on Highway 101 together with Highway 1 due north of San Francisco inward our Toyota Venza. Below nosotros introduce our highpoints of our trip offering smashing trip planning tips for you.

California’s northern coast is a landscape of rugged coastlines, towering forests, together with beautiful lakes together with rivers. It is countryside total of farms together with vineyards together with a identify where minor towns save the past. You tin process yourself to vino tasting inward the vino country, sense wonders of nature inward the California Redwoods, together with drive the scenic coast for a romantic getaway or a relaxing beach vacation. You tin also uncovering creative someone enclaves, fine dining, together with local festivals. The politics are liberal together with inward roughly parts the economic scheme depends on growing marijuana. Learn to a greater extent than near this unique region...

We started our conduct a opportunity exploring California’s northern coast driving due north of San Francisco across the famous Golden Gate Bridge. First halt was Sausalito. Located on San Francisco bay, Sausalito is a pretty town amongst outdoor cafes (see photo). On Sausalito’s principal street, Bridgeway Blvd., nosotros enjoyed crab enchiladas for tiffin on the harbor amongst a sentiment of San Francisco across the bay.

Stinson Beach - California, USA

Taking the pretty together with winding Highway 1 northeast takes you lot through Marin Country together with to Muir Woods, a beautiful one-time increment Redwood Forest. For to a greater extent than on California’s Redwoods, click here. Continuing due north past times Muir Beach, nosotros stopped at Stinson Beach, a overnice 3-mile long beach (see photo) amongst a minor cute town.

Before continuing north, nosotros enjoyed California’s premier vino regions of Napa, Sonoma, together with the Russian River Valley located due north of San Francisco. Some of the greatest wines inward the basis are produced here. Because nosotros receive got previously done many wine-tasting trips to these areas, nosotros decided to focus on the principal towns visiting Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Geyserville, Calistoga, St. Helena, Yountville, together with Sonoma. Our favorites were Sonoma, Healdsburg, together with St. Helena.

Pat amongst Our Toyota Venza
- Beringer Winery, Napa Valley, California

Central Plaza - Healdsburg, California, USA

We loved Sonoma’s cute town plaza amongst shops together with restaurants surrounding it. Making things fifty-fifty to a greater extent than special, nosotros attended the farmers marketplace that going on amongst nutrient together with music – thence much fun! Healdsburg also has a charming, Spanish-style fundamental plaza (see photo), shaded past times palm, redwood, together with other trees together with surrounded past times quant shops, restaurants, wine tasting, upscale boutiques, together with fine art galleries (see photo). OK, it appears nosotros similar these charismatic yesterday plazas.

Old Faithful Geyser 
- Calistoga, California, USA

St. Helena is also nice. No fundamental plaza only it has an attractive 1880’s-looking Main Street amongst interesting shops together with restaurants. St. Helena has been the ticker of the vino trouble organisation for a century. We had smashing tiffin at Annie’s Backdoor. We also had fun stopping inward Calistoga and viewing Old Faithful geyser that shoots H2O near 100 feet high every 20-40 minutes (see photo).

Calistoga, California, USA

Enjoying the beautiful drives betwixt these towns is frequently to a greater extent than fun than the towns themselves. Route 29 from St. Helena betwixt together with due north of Calistoga passes wineries together with beautiful countryside. Stopping for vino tasting is fun. River Road along the Russian River with the town of Jenner at the coast is really scenic amongst wood together with river vistas together with passes through quant towns.

Mendocino, California, USA

Bed & Breakfast Hotel 
- Mendocino, California, USA

Heading due north on Highway 1, our side past times side halt was Mendocino. Small only wonderful, Mendocino looks similar a minor town along New England amongst Victorian homes together with stores (see photo). It is located correct on the coast amongst a beautiful sentiment of the rugged body of body of water cliffs amongst white body of body of water waves crashing in. We had a really overnice tiffin at the Mendocino Café together with and then wandered Main Street. Mendocino genuinely has existent boardwalks made of wood.

Pat Writing inward 'Write Room" 
- Andiron Seaside Inn

We had a process staying at The Andiron Seaside Inn & Cabins located a twosome of miles from Mendocino. Every cabin is decorated inward a unlike theme. Being go writers, nosotros stayed inward the Write Cabin #6 where nosotros could write on the walls (see photo). Pat wrote i of our favorite go quotes: “The basis is a book, together with the someone who stays at dwelling solid reads only i page.” The hot tub inward the woods is an enjoyable indulgence.

If you lot desire to furnish the fast means dorsum due south from Mendocino, live on certain to convey Highway 128 from coast to Highway 101. It is a beautiful drive - redwoods inward the due north together with wineries together with Earth route to the south. We idea the minor town of Boonville was cute.

California's Beautiful Northern Coastline

We continued due north on Highway 1 to Fort Bragg. We wanted to halt at Fort Bragg to see Glass Beach that was in i trial a metropolis dumb creating thousands of minor pieces of drinking glass polished past times the body of body of water waves. Glass Beach is non covered similar it in i trial was only you lot tin uncovering thousands of minor pieces of drinking glass mixed amongst the stone pebbles. From Fort Bragg, you lot tin convey the scenic Skunk Trainride.

Heading north, Highway 1 joins dorsum upward amongst Highway 101 taking you lot into California’s Humboldt Country. Humboldt Country has a twosome of principal claims to fame. One beingness a top Marijuana growing portion inward the U.S. Famous for producing roughly of the best marijuana inward the world, the economic scheme hither depends on this crop.

Bluegrass Band at Apple Harvest Fest 
- Fortuna, California, USA

In Fortuna we attended their Apple Harvest Fest together with had a smashing fourth dimension listening together with watching the children trip the calorie-free fantastic to a Bluegrass band (see photo). We visited Humboldt County to savour the absolutely spectacular California Redwoodsand the must-do Avenue of the Giants. California’s coastal Redwoods are thence wonderful that they deserve their ain weblog post. For to a greater extent than on California’s Redwoods, click here.

Victorian Buildings 
- Downtown Ferndale, California

Old Fashion Hardware Store 
- Ferndale, California, USA

We side past times side visited Ferndaleoff Highway 101. The entire town of Ferndale has been designed equally a State Historical Landmark (see photos). The Victorian homes together with buildings receive got remained largely untouched since the 1890’s making Ferndale i of the best consummate examples of California’s Victorian era. They telephone hollo upward these dwelling solid “Butterfat houses” because this expanse became wealthy equally dairy farmers, a tradition that nonetheless continues today. We had tiffin at Mario’s Lost Coast Café & Bakery together with recommend his holistic approach to food. The possessor grinds his ain flour together with bakes his bread.

Victorian Carson House 
- Eureka, California, USA

Pastels on the Plaza - Arcata, California, USA

Next upward heading due north is the town of Eureka. Eureka is i of the largest towns on California’s northern coast. It has the beautiful Victorian Carson House (see photo) together with a restored one-time town. 

We liked the minor town of Arcataand attended the Pastels on the Plazaevent where the chalk fine art lining the sidewalk of the fundamental plaza was beautiful (see photo). Arcata is considered to live on “hippy tolerate” because of their really liberal credence of immature Rasta-style immature people, consummate amongst dreadlocks, who come upward to harvest the marijuana together with remain inward the streets.

Then it was upward to the Redwood National together with State Park to see the spectacular Redwoods together with Fern Canyon. Again, California’s coastal Redwoods are thence wonderful that they deserve their ain weblog post. For to a greater extent than on California’s Redwoods, click here.

We would similar to give cheers Toyota for lending us a novel Venza for this trip. The Toyota Venza is a really comfortable cruising motorcar amongst many overnice features – smashing for having an adventure. It made our trip to a greater extent than enjoyable. We liked this motorcar really much together with immediately girlfriend it subsequently our trip. You should check out the Toyota Venza.

Please encounter our other half dozen weblog posts on beautiful California:

San Francisco & Berkley, California, USA

California Hearst Castle San Simeon

California Driving Trip of the Redwoods - Avenue of the Giants together with Redwood National together with State Park

California Driving Trip Los Angeles to Santa Barbara - Highway 101, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Solvang, El Capitan Canyon, & Glamping

California Driving Trip of the Central Coast – Highway 101, Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Santa Barbara

Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood, California, USA

Del Mar & Torrey Pines, California, USA (Our Home Town)

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