Lonely Planet Pacific Coast Highways Road Trips

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781786573568
• eBook ISBN: 9781787012127

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Pacific Coast Highway's Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, you can journey through verdant redwood parks or follow bewitching ribbons of coastal highway, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's Pacific Coast Highway's 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 San Francisco, Northern Redwood Coast, Pacific Coast, Big Sur, Santa Barbara County, Los Angeles, Disneyland & Orange County, San Diego and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Pacific Coast Highway's Road Trips is perfect for exploring the Pacific Coast Highway in the classic American way - by road trip! Planning a Pacific Coast Highway trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's California guide, our most comprehensive guide to California, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems, or check out Best ofCalifornia, a photo-rich guide to the destination's most popular attractions.About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home.eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of th

Destinations

San Diego, Orange County & Los Angeles

Warm winter sun and coastal drives, modernist homes and Hollywood lore, martinis and wildflowers in the desert.

Santa Barbara & the Central Coast

This fairy-tale stretch of California coast is packed with wild beaches, misty redwood forests where hot springs hide, and rolling golden hills of fertile vineyards and farm fields.

San Francisco & the Bay Area

If there’s a skateboard move yet to be busted, a technology still unimagined, a poem left unspoken or a green scheme untested, chances are it’s about to happen here.

North Coast & Redwoods

Spectral fog and an outsider spirit have fostered the world’s tallest trees, most potent weed and a string of idiosyncratic two-stoplight towns.

Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
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San Diego, Orange County & Los Angeles

This diverse area is home to deep pockets of individuality, beauty and different ways of thinking.

SAN DIEGO

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New York has its cabbie, Chicago its bluesman and Seattle its coffee-drinking boho. San Diego has its surfer dude, with his tousled hair, great tan and gentle enthusiasm; he looks like he’s on a perennial vacation, and when he wishes you welcome, he really means it.

San Diego calls itself ‘America’s Finest City’ and its breezy confidence and sunny countenance filter down even to folks you encounter every day on the street. It feels like a collection of villages each with their own personality, but it’s the nation’s eighth-largest city and we’re hard-pressed to think of a place of any size that’s more laid-back.

Downtown San Diego

1 Sights

1 Maritime Museum B1

2 New Children’s Museum D3

4 Sleeping

3 US Grant Hotel D2

4 USA Hostels San Diego E3

6 Drinking & Nightlife

5 Bang Bang E3

3 Entertainment

6 Arts Tix D2

7 House of Blues E2

1 Sights

New Children’s Museum Museum

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619-233-8792; www.thinkplaycreate.org; 200 W Island Ave; $13;

10am-4pm Mon, Wed, Thu & Sat, 9:30am-4pm Fri, noon-4pm Sun;

) This children’s museum offers interactive art meant for kids. Installations are designed by arti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• How to Use This eBook
• Contents
• Welcome to Pacific Coast Highways
• Pacific Coast Highways Map
• Pacific Coast Highways Highlights
• City Guide
• Need to Know
• Road Trips
• Destinations
• California Driving Guide
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers
• Index