Lonely Planet Pacific Coast Highways Road Trips (Travel Guide)
Lonely Planet, Alison Bing
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1743607040
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet Pacific Coast Highways Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, explore America's creative coast's breezy, wildlife-rich highways with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road!
Inside Lonely Planet Pacific Coast Highways Road Trips:
- Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout
- Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests
- Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions
- Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads
- Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip
- Covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pacific coast, Big Sur, Northern Redwood Coast, Disneyland, Orange County and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Pacific Coast Highways Road Trips is perfect for exploring California's coast in the classic American way - by road trip!
- Looking for more extensive coverage? Lonely Planet California, our most comprehensive guide to the region, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems, or check out Discover California, a photo-rich guide to the region's most popular attractions.
- Looking for more specifics on your road trip pitstops? Check out Lonely Planet's San Francisco and Los Angeles guides for a comprehensive look at all these cities have to offer, or Pocket San Francisco and Pocket Los Angeles, handy-sized guides focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.
There's More in Store for You:
- For more road-tripping ideas, check out Lonely Planet's Road Trips guides to Route 66 andSan Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country and Lonely Planet's Best Trips guides to California, New England, Southwest USA, Pacific Northwest, Florida & the South, New York & the Mid-Atlantic, and USA.
- Or start with our FREE SAMPLER '3 of the USA's Best Road Trips' with excerpts from each Road Trips guide to help you pick which region to explore first.
- Also, check out Lonely Planet's Road Trips guides to Châteaux of the Loire Valley, Normandy & D-Day Beaches, and Provence & Southeast France and Lonely Planet's Best Trips guides to Italy, France, and Ireland for some European road trip inspiration.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet.
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CONTENTS Plan Your Trip Welcome to Pacific Coast Highways Pacific Coast Highways Map Pacific Coast Highways Highlights San Francisco City Guide Los Angeles City Guide Need to Know ROAD TRIPS 1 Pacific Coast Highways 2 Northern Redwood Coast 3 Big Sur 4 Disneyland & Orange County Beaches DESTINATIONS San Francisco Northern Coast & Redwoods Mendocino Fort Bragg Eureka Trinidad Patrick’s Point State Park Humboldt Lagoons State Park Redwood National
restaurants and shops sums up the Downtown renaissance in just a few short blocks. Take note of the 3State Theatre and 4St Vincent Court, 5Los Angeles Theatre and the 6Palace Theatre. Turn right at 6th St, continue along for two blocks, then turn left onto Main, where you’ll see a flowering of new restaurants and bars at nearly every turn. Turn left on 5th St and continue for several blocks, passing 7Pershing Square and glimpsing the 8Biltmore Hotel. At Grand Ave turn right and walk past the
the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA; 619-232-7931; www.sdmart.org; 1450 El Prado; adult/child $12/4.50; 10am-5pm Mon-Tue & Thu-Sat, from noon Sun, also 5-9pm Thu Jun-Sep), the city’s largest; the Timken Museum of Art (619-239-5548; www.timkenmuseum.org; 1500 El Prado; 10am-4:30pm Tue-Sat, from 1:30pm Sun) , with works by masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Cézanne and Pissarro; and the Mingei International Museum (619-239-0003; www.mingei.org; 1439 El Prado; adult/child $8/5; 10am-5pm
326 Broadway; r from $249; ) This 1910 hotel was built as the fancy city counterpart to the Hotel del Coronado and has hosted everyone from Albert Einstein to Harry Truman. Today’s quietly flashy lobby combines chocolate-brown and ocean-blue accents, and rooms boast original artwork on the headboards. Parking costs $39. 5 Eating & Drinking Café 222 Breakfast $ map Google map (619-236-9902; www.cafe222.com; 222 Island Ave; mains $7-11; 7am-1:30pm) Downtown’s favorite breakfast place serves
straight through the city’s biggest, most breathable greenspace: Golden Gate Park (www.golden-gate-park.com; admission free; ). You could easily spend all day in the conservatory of flowers, arboretum and botanical gardens, perusing the California Academy of Sciences (www.calacademy.org; 55 Music Concourse Dr; adult/child $35/25; 9:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun; ) and the de Young Museum (www.famsf.org/deyoung; 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr; adult/child $10/free; 9:30am-5:15pm Tue-Sun) of fine arts.