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©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 769 Behind the Scenes SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK We love to hear from travelers – your comments keep us on our toes and help make our books better. Our well-traveled team reads every word on what you loved or loathed about this book. Although we cannot reply individually to your submissions, we always guarantee that your feed- back goes straight to the appropriate authors, in time for the next edition. Each person who sends us information is thanked in the next edition – the most useful submissions are rewarded with a selection of digital PDF chapters. Visit lonelyplanet.com/contact to submit your updates and suggestions or to ask for help. Our award-winning website also features inspirational travel stories, news and discussions. Note: We may edit, reproduce and incorporate your comments in Lonely Planet products such as guidebooks, websites and digital products, so let us know if you don’t want your comments reproduced or your name acknowledged. For a copy of our privacy policy visit lonelyplanet.com/ privacy. above all, Marco Flavio Marinucci, for making a OUR READERS Muni bus ride into the adventure of a lifetime. Many thanks to the travelers who used the last edition and wrote to us with helpful hints, useful Celeste Brash advice and interesting anecdotes: Thanks first to my road trip buddies on this Buzz Berridge, Tony Brett, Guillaume trip, Heather Griggs and Tevai Humbert (who Croussette, Taryn Dickinson, Stephan is also my son). On the road I was given all the Haagensen, Janet Noonan, Anne-Marie scoop by local heroes Grant Roden, Audie The- Tremblay, Margareta Troein Töllborn ole, Freda Moon, John Vlahides, Kem Pence and Ken Pence. Thanks to Sara Benson for being so passionate about the region and the great Suki AUTHOR THANKS Gear for getting me on her last book. Sara Benson Tienlon Ho Thanks to Suki Gear, Cliff Wilkinson, Alison Lyall Thanks to Cliff Wilkinson, Suki Gear, Dianne and the entire Lonely Planet team, including and the SPP team, and Sara Benson for the my co-authors. Family and friends all over Cal- opportunity and support along the way. Thanks ifornia generously gave me insider tips, good to Ken Ho, Wenhuei Ho, Tienchin Ho, Richard company on road trips and most importantly, Winters, Anli Winters, Mayli Winters, Alison spare rooms to crash in. Special thanks to my Shinsato and, of course, Jon Adams for inspi- Golden Gate Bridge running partners Beth ration and everything else. Most importantly, Kohn (also my Sierra Nevada trail guru) and thanks to the truly weary travelers who came Derek Wolfgram (home brewer and an expert before me, recorded or forgotten, who built the advisor on Bay Area craft beer). Central Valley, Gold Country and so, California. Andrew Bender Beth Kohn Thanks to Suki Gear, Cliff Wilkinson, Alison Ly- Brava to Suki Gear for all her years of work on all, Hilary Angel, Juan Flores, Joe Timko, Sarah so many fantastic editions of this guide, and to Weinberg, Suzi Dennett and the good folks at Sara B, my running, hiking, baking and writing the SPP Help Desk. heroine! Thanks to Visit Oakland, Lisa Cesaro Alison Bing of DNC, Kari Cobb in Yosemite National Park and Lara Kaylor at Mammoth Lakes Tourism Thanks to Suki Gear, Rana Freedman, Cliff for their excellent on-the-ground assistance. Wilkinson, Katie O’Connell, Melissa Wong, and 770 Jen and Dillon provided worthy campfire John A Vlahides s’mores and Claude kept me (reasonably) I owe great thanks to my commissioning sane throughout. editor, Suki Gear, whom I miss; to my co- author, Sara Benson, for her always-sunny Adam Skolnick disposition; and to my editor Clifton Wilkin- Los Angeles is a city I love, full of people I son for giving me free reign – I’m grateful. love. LA is home. Still, it’s never easy to dis- BEHIND THE SCENES And to you, dear readers: please accept my sect your own backyard, mostly because you most heartfelt gratitude for letting me be usually know what you’re missing. So thanks your guide to Wine Country. Have fun. I know to Alma Lauer, Trisha Cole, Jessica Ritz, Nina you will! Gregory, Burton Breznick, Tchaiko Omawale, Dan Cohn, Angel Payne, Christine Lazzaro, Liebe Geft, the folks at the Wende Museum, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Michael McDowell, Alex Capriotti, and John Climate map data adapted from Peel MC, Moore. Thanks also to all those wild seals, Finlayson BL & McMahon TA (2007) ‘Updat- sea lions, dolphins and whales that keep ed World Map of the Köppen-Geiger Climate us entertained in the water, and to the LP Classification’, Hydrology and Earth System staff and my cohorts Sara Benson and Andy Sciences, 11, 1633¬44. Bender. Illustration pp76-7 by Michael Weldon. Cover photograph: Tunnel View, Yosemite Valley, Eddie Lluisma/Getty. in Lonely Planet’s Oakland Monique Perrin, Saralinda THIS BOOK office, and produced by the Turner This 7th edition of California following: Senior Cartographer Alison was researched and written by Commissioning Editor Lyall Sara Benson, Andrew Bender, Suki Gear Assisting Cartographers Alison Bing, Celeste Brash, Destination Editor Julie Dodkins, Mick Garrett Tienlon Ho, Beth Kohn, Adam Clifton Wilkinson Book Designer Wibowo Rusli Skolnick and John A Vlahides. Coordinating Editor Sara, Andrew, Alison, Beth and Cover Image Researcher Simon Williamson Naomi Parker John also wrote the previous edition, alongside Nate Product Editor Thanks to Imogen Bannister, Katie O’Connell Cavalieri, Bridget Gleeson and Kate Chapman, Penny Cord- Andrea Schulte-Peevers. This Assisting Editors Katie ner, Indra Kilfoyle, Claire Nay- guidebook was commissioned Connolly, Melanie Dankel, lor, Karyn Noble, John Taufa, Jenna Myers, Rosie Nicholson, Samantha Tyson, Juan Wanita ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 771 Index A art galleries, see museums Jalama Beach 512 Bay Bridge 131 accommodations 750-1, see & galleries Kings Beach 393-5 Death Valley National also individual locations arts 738-9, see also La Jolla 652 Park 697 activities 29-31, 47-54, see literature, music, visual Laguna Beach 16, 618-22, Golden Gate Bridge 117 arts also individual 619, 16 Joshua Tree National ATMs 755-6 activities Lake Tahoe area 371-5 Park 678 Auburn 339-40 airports 23, 761, see also Leadbetter Beach 522 Lake Tahoe area 374 Los Angeles International Auburn State Recreation Los Angeles 563 Monterey 472 Airport (LAX) Area 340-1 Manhattan Beach 563 Newport Beach 613 air travel 761, 763 Avenue of the Giants 252-4 Muir Beach 126 San Francisco 90 Alamo Square 89 Avila Beach 508-11 Muscle Beach 566 Santa Barbara 520 Alcatraz 76-7, 91, 76-7, 76-7 Newport Beach 611-15, 612 Sausalito 118 Amador City 351-2 B Ocean Beach 96, 512, 633 Tahoe City area 385 Amador County 348-55 Baez, Joan 735 One Thousand Steps Yosemite National Park wine region 352, 547, 546 Baker, Chet 734 Beach 522 410 amusement parks, Bakersfield 332-5 Orange County 607-24 Big Bear Lake 591-2 see theme parks Balboa Island 611 Pelican State Beach 271 Big Pine 453 Anacapa Island 552, 21 Balboa Park 14, 626, 627-30, Pismo Beach 511-13 Big Sur 17, 481-90, 482, Anaheim 596-605 630, 14 Refugio State Beach 522 7, 17 Anchor Bay 225-6 ballooning 53, 176, 295, San Buenaventura State Bigfoot 303 Anderson Valley 241-3, 547 376, 653 Beach 550 birds & bird-watching 52, Angel Island 120 Baltimore Canyon 121 San Diego 633-5, 638 127, 159, 226, 239, 297, Angels Camp 355-6 Barstow 689-91 301, 313, 319, 495, Santa Barbara 522 745-6 animals 418-19, 692, 744-7, baseball 730 Seal Beach 608 757, , see also Bishop 451-3 418-19 basketball 730 Sonoma Coast State individual species, boat travel 763 Bay Area, the 66, 110-60 Beach 222 wildlife reserves Lake Tahoe area 382 Berkeley 140-9, 142 Stinson Beach 126-7 Año Nuevo State Reserve Newport Beach 613 Marin Headlands 112-17 Surf Beach 512 159-60 San Diego 636 Oakland 131-40, 132 Tahoe City 385 Anza-Borrego Desert State Bodega Bay 219-22 Sausolito 117-19 Tahoe Vista 392 Park 682-6, 684 Bodie State Historical Park Apple Corp 726 Bay Bridge 71 Venice Beach 566, 2, 13 439-40 Apple Headquarters 151 beaches 44-6, 56, 574-5 bears 745, 757 Bolinas 26, 127-8 Apple Hill 355 Avila Beach 508-11 Beat poets 725 books 716, 723, 740-1 aquariums 56 Baker Beach 85 Beatty, Nevada 700-1 Boonville 241 Aquarium of the Bay 80 Bolsa Chica State Beach Beck 736 border crossings 648, 761-2 610 Aquarium of the Pacific beer 25, 62, 64-5, 235, Boron 703 Butterfly Beach 522 , see also breweries, 567 65 Borrego Springs 682 Cardiff-by-the-Sea 656 drinks Monterey Bay Aquarium breweries 235 468-9, 17 Carpinteria State Beach Bel Air 563, 576 Anchor Brewing Company Arcata 259-63 544 Benbow Lake 248-9 64, 65 East Beach 522 architecture 736-8 Berkeley 140-9, 142 Downtown Brewing area codes 23, 757-8 El Capitán State Beach 522 Beverly Hills 563-5, 572-6, Co 506 Goleta Beach County 581, 588 Half Moon Bay Brewing Park 522 bicycle travel 50, 763, 767, Company 157 Half Moon Bay 157 see also mountain biking Map Pages 000 Marin Brewing Company Hermosa Beach 563 Anza-Borrego Desert Photo Pages 000 121 Huntington Beach 609-11 State Park 683-5 772 breweries continued casinos 542, 673, 693, 701, Columbia State Historic information 604 Redwood Curtain 704-12 Park 358-9, 19 itineraries 596 Brewery 262 Catalina Island 590-1 commerce 717 planning 594 San Diego 645 caves & caving 52, 358 condors 485, 746 shopping 603-4 Santa Cruz County 464 Cayucos 493-4 conservation 716-7, 748 sights & activities Sierra Nevada Brewing Cedar Grove 425 Convict Lake 449-50 596-600 INDEX Company 321 cell phones 22, 757 Corona del Mar 617 transportation 604-5 Six Rivers Brewery 262 Central Coast