Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Best Detour
Just inland from Hwy 101 in Marin County is the small town of Tiburon, where you catch
a ferry over to Angel Island State Park (
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), with its historical sites, hiking and
cycling trails, coves and beaches in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
Time & Mileage
Three days, 175 miles
ROADSIDE ODDITIES IN CALIFORNIA
Drive-Thru Trees
Navigate your Chevy through the belly of a redwood tree on the North
Coast (
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)
, or through a fallen giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park's
Giant
Forest
.
Confusion Hill
&
Mystery Spot
Clapper-trap complexes of slanting floors, skewed per-
spectives and corny delights.
Route 66
Faux concrete wigwams, folk-art bottle trees and a giant orange await on Amer-
ica's Mother Road.
Trees of Mystery
A giant animatronic version of lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox
Babe on the North Coast.
World's Biggest Dinosaurs
Concrete behemoths near Palm Springs, strangely with a
museum of Creationism inside.
Death Valley
Go where California pioneers and gold miners once rolled their wagons (
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)
.
Ghost towns and abandoned mines are evidence of the human struggle to survive here, yet
this national park, the biggest of its kind outside of Alaska, is in fact spectacularly alive
with 'singing' sand dunes, water-sculpted canyons, hidden springs and a riot of spring
wildflowers.
