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With Inspiration from a New California Wines Road Trip Video. July 31, 2012. SAN FRANCISCO - You, friends and family, a convertible and the wide open California road. What could be a better combination? Pairing it with California wine country, of course!

Planning a California Pacific Coast Highway road trip? Driving along the California Pacific Coast Highway is perhaps one of the greatest road trips in the world. Over the past five years, I was very lucky to have the opportunity to visit many of the towns and city's along the Golden Coast. But it was not until this past summer that we did a full road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles ...

Take a road trip along California’s premier mountain range, the Sierra Nevada—the dramatic granite backbone defining the state’s eastern edge.

Location. Big Sur is not an incorporated town but instead refers to an area without formal boundaries in California's Central Coast region. Visitors may identify Big Sur with the small community of buildings and services 26 miles (42 km) south of Carmel in the Big Sur River valley, known to locals as Big Sur Village.. Historical boundaries. The various informal boundaries applied to the region ...

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Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California.As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232 making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and more populous than twenty-one U.S. states. Its county seat is Santa Ana. It is the second most densely populated county in the state, behind San Francisco County to the far north.

California’s Highway 1 has officially reopened and motorists can now drive from Monterey in the north to San Luis Obispo in the south for the first time in 18 months. “California’s travel and tourism industry is thrilled that Highway 1 will reopen in late July, months earlier than original estimates,” according to Visit California President & CEO Caroline Beteta.

Between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo, California's Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy 1) merges with US 101 or becomes an uninteresting side road. This trip planner describes the drive from San Luis Obispo through Big Sur to San Francisco, the most popular part of California Highway 1.

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How to Take a Road Trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco on Highway 101