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(More customer reviews)New to California or hoping to visit for a day, week, or month? Lonely Planet's latest travel guide to California is a great place to start. Chock full of glossy color photographs, six chapters introduce visitors to the best of the Golden State's urban areas, and a few of its wilder scenic wonders. Each chapter is color coded to help readers navigate to the section they want, and descriptions of eateries, local tourist attractions, hotels and hostels, and local parks are all written in the delightful style that readers of Lonely Planet Guides have come to expect.
Two urban areas, Los Angeles and San Francisco get their own chapters. The other portions of the book cover the rest of the Bay Area and northern California, the Sierra, the Southern California Coast (which does not include LA but does include both Big Sur and San Diego, two remarkably different areas, and of course Wine Country. Each chapter begins with a list of highlights, as does the book itself. Even relatively small communities which merit interest receive some mention here, including Ferndale, just south of Eureka, and hot springs resort Ukiah. The emphasis in this book is on urban visits, but it does include features on parks. Yosemite, of course, gets extensive coverage. But I was impressed by the amount of space devoted to some otherwise little known state parks like Salt Point and Jack London Historic Park.
For the most part, I found the information in the book accurate, but I did find a couple of minor mistakes. The scenes from Star Wars with the Ewoks are described as filmed in two different state parks and actually it was neither of the ones listed. Visitors who remember the movie will want to visit Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park which is not actually mentioned in the book. A description of Lava Beds National Monument is misplaced in the book and appears in the write up on Redwood National Park. Still in all, this is a nice guidebook to the state. I would recommend, however, that readers who want to get out of their cars a bit more should supplement this book with my favorite statewide hiking guide, Moon Handbooks California Hiking. California's scenery is best experienced on foot, so read up and then come visit the most beautiful state in the nation.
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