One of the world's great drives, along the rugged California coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains drop into the Pacific. Stop at the Bixby Creek Bridge, Pfeiffer Beach, and McWay Falls, which drops onto a beach.
Landslides sometimes close sections of Highway 1; check before you go. Carmel and Monterey, with its aquarium, are at the northern end.
A former federal prison on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, which held Al Capone and others until 1963.
The famous suspension bridge, painted 'International Orange', opened in 1937 across the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
A glacial valley in the Sierra Nevada with granite cliffs such as El Capitan and Half Dome, and waterfalls including Yosemite Falls, one of the talle…
The Santa Barbara Channel, between the city and the Channel Islands, is one of the best places in California to see whales.
The Griffith Observatory, on a hill in Griffith Park, has free exhibits, telescopes and views of the Hollywood Sign and the Los Angeles basin, especi…
The hottest, driest and lowest national park in the USA, with Badwater Basin salt flats 86 m below sea level, sand dunes at Mesquite Flat, colourful …
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