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Hidden San Francisco & Northern California

Including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Santa Cruz,
Monterey, Yosemite and Lake Tahoe

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• Unique lodging choices including vintage downtown boutique hotels and over 50 coastal bed-and-breakfast inns
• Packed with outdoor adventures—11 balloon rides, 116 cycling trails, 65 horseback rides and 41 surfing spots
• Sleeping in the wilds at 25 cabins and 570 campgrounds (13,345 sites)
• Local flavor at 25 California cuisine eateries and 38 Asian restaurants

This guide perfectly epitomizes the Hidden travel-guide philosophy. Author Ray Riegert covers with great detail the popular spots (everything from Alcatraz and Union Square to the Wine Country and Yosemite), then he dedicates a great number of pages to less explored areas right in the city and throughout Northern California. Travelers will capture the essence of this popular region in the neighborhood eateries along Clement Street and the small towns dotting Route 49 as it winds through the Gold Country.

A local resident, Riegert shows where to lose the crowd and experience this magnificent area like a resident. He puts his reputation on the line with opinionated reviews of both the worthy and the merely infamous.

Inside Hidden San Francisco & Northern California:
(page 64) Visit Chinatown’s Golden Gate Cookie Factory and get your fortune hot off the cookie press
(page 102) Dream of Arabian Nights as you lounge on pillows and feast on falafel and couscous at Kan Zaman
(page 216) Sample wine from Mayacama Vineyards where chardonnay grapes thrive in gentle mountain air
(page 394) Escape to the Tassajara Zen Center, a monastery-turned-spa nestled in the mountains near Big Sur
(page 372) Pitch your tent among volcanic craters, lava tubes and obsidian cliffs in the Modoc National Forest

Hidden San Francisco & Northern California
Including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Yosemite and Lake Tahoe
Ray Riegert
10th Ed., pb, 1-56975-281-8
$18.95, 592 pages, 52 maps

Edited by Dave Shultz

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