This guide includes 24 eye-pleasing California rides. Travelers will discover secluded glens, soaring redwoods, plunging waterfalls, ghost towns, lava flows, windswept shores battered by Pacific breakers, elegant stands of Joshua trees, and much more.
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Pack up the car and enjoy twenty-four drives through the breathtaking mountains, spectacular valleys, rugged coastlines, and dry desert plains of the Golden State. This indispensable highway companion maps out short trips for exploring California’s best scenic byways and back roads. Discover the state’s multicultural history, geographic diversity, and awe-inspiring scenery, from the Smith River Canyon and the Big Sur Coast to Yosemite National Forest and the Anza-Borrego Desert. Along the way stop and go rafting on the Klamath River, enjoy wine tasting in Napa Valley, explore the caves in the Lava Beds National Monument, and do some stargazing at the Mount Wilson Observatory.
Inside you’ll find:
• Individual itineraries from 33 to 209 miles in length
• In-depth descriptions of attractions along the way, including historic gold rush towns, picturesque resorts, and national parks
• Maps outlining each route
• Historical information and suggested side trips
• Tips on camping, travel services, weather conditions, and best driving seasons
Inside you’ll find:
• Individual itineraries from 33 to 209 miles in length
• In-depth descriptions of attractions along the way, including historic gold rush towns, picturesque resorts, and national parks
• Maps outlining each route
• Historical information and suggested side trips
• Tips on camping, travel services, weather conditions, and best driving seasons
About the Author
Freelance outdoor photographer and writer Stewart M. Green is the author of many FalconGuides, including five Scenic Driving titles and six climbing guides. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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I've been a freelance photographer and writer since 1977, based in Colorado Springs and traveling all over the great American West as well as the rest of the United States and the world in search of memorable images and experiences to write about and to lead people toward. Since the mid-1980s I've worked as a contract photographer and writer for FalconGuides/Globe Pequot Press, writing 20 books and photographing a few more.
My books include Rock Climbing Colorado, Rock Climbing Europe, Rock Climbing Utah, Rock Climbing Arizona, Rock Climbing New England, Scenic Driving Colorado, Scenic Driving California, Scenic Driving Arizona, Scenic Driving New England, KNACK Rock Climbing, Best Climbs Moab, Best Climbs Denver and Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, and Back Country Byways.
My work has also been published in lots of other national and international publications. I'm also the Guide to Climbing at About.com, a New York Times Company.
Along the way I fathered a couple of amazing kids--Ian and Brett, climbed and adventured in a lot of places that I never could have imagined, and had a lot of fun. I've had my hands and my heart full. I'm grateful for that.
I write and photograph because of what is in front of me, to honor everything beyond in the world which is great, interesting, mysterious, and always changing. To be a writer and photographer is to see newly every day, as if for the first time, the essence that illuminates and lives within the earth. Every subject redefines me and allows me to discover harmony, reconcile disparities and inequities, and to find shape, symmetry, and truth in the chaos of life.
As a writer and photographer I seek to record my life and times, my vision of the world and its natural beauty, its other creatures, and my fellow human beings, and to find affirmation in life through belonging, wholeness, and living. I always think of the reader and the viewer over my shoulder, the person who sees my vision and reinterprets it in his own experience.
My books include Rock Climbing Colorado, Rock Climbing Europe, Rock Climbing Utah, Rock Climbing Arizona, Rock Climbing New England, Scenic Driving Colorado, Scenic Driving California, Scenic Driving Arizona, Scenic Driving New England, KNACK Rock Climbing, Best Climbs Moab, Best Climbs Denver and Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, and Back Country Byways.
My work has also been published in lots of other national and international publications. I'm also the Guide to Climbing at About.com, a New York Times Company.
Along the way I fathered a couple of amazing kids--Ian and Brett, climbed and adventured in a lot of places that I never could have imagined, and had a lot of fun. I've had my hands and my heart full. I'm grateful for that.
I write and photograph because of what is in front of me, to honor everything beyond in the world which is great, interesting, mysterious, and always changing. To be a writer and photographer is to see newly every day, as if for the first time, the essence that illuminates and lives within the earth. Every subject redefines me and allows me to discover harmony, reconcile disparities and inequities, and to find shape, symmetry, and truth in the chaos of life.
As a writer and photographer I seek to record my life and times, my vision of the world and its natural beauty, its other creatures, and my fellow human beings, and to find affirmation in life through belonging, wholeness, and living. I always think of the reader and the viewer over my shoulder, the person who sees my vision and reinterprets it in his own experience.
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Lots of info for many routes to be travelled, helped me plan our trip a little more "scenic"
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