More on California
By Mary Forgione, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Sacramento—Old Sacramento creates a convincing picture of life in the Old West. Historic storefronts line lumpy brick...
By Janis Cooke Newman, Special to the Los Angeles Times
San Francisco isn't really an underground kind of place. We don't go in for noir the way L.A. does. And unlike New York, we don't...
By Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times
California is home to more racetracks than any other state, with four dominant tracks and a dozen lesser venues, such as state fairs,...
By Susan Spano, Special to the Los Angeles Times
My brother, John, tried to sleep during the boring part of the three-hour trip from Los Angeles to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.
By Janis Cooke Newman, Special to the Los Angeles Times
You can't throw a New Yorker magazine in San Francisco without hitting a writer. This fog-bound city might be more famous for steep hills...
The Forks of the Kern, where the rapids line up one after another — as white as your mother's wedding dress — is among the finer...
As I ponder the most beautiful places I've visited in America, my head fills with visions of the rocky Maine coast in summer, when long days...
By Christopher Reynolds
We'll call the movie "Three Beaches and an Airport." It'll star Hugh Grant as a buttoned-up business traveler who is separated from his job,...
By Mike Morris, Special to the Los Angeles Times
After a long car ride, my wife and I stopped at Lovers Point Park in Pacific Grove to let our 4-year-old daughter, Ediza, release some...
By Jordan Rane
Until recently, my relationship with central California's magnificent Big Sur coast was all about the drive. Ninety-three miles of...
By Brian E. Clark
The last time I saw the Yukon, a 366-foot-long Canadian navy destroyer, it was docked in San Diego. So many holes had been cut in the...
By Megan Kimble, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Jogging along the Whittier Greenway Trail is traversing a corridor of history, a trip through an era when citrus trees bloomed — and...
By Janis Cooke Newman
Nobody does hip like the bicyclists of San Francisco's Mission District.
By Dan Blackburn
The White Mountains that straddle the California-Nevada border are known for their extreme environment. They get less than a foot of rain...
By Christopher Reynolds
Did somebody order fish and ships?
By Terry Gardner
Whether you're shopping at Tiffany, contemplating the Liberty Bell, hiking in Yosemite National Park or throwing dice inLas Vegas, odds...
By Laura Randall, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Call it the accidental road trip. Looking for a less monotonous route home from Northern California last summer, my family and I took...
By Michele Bigley
The Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway yawns languidly for 500 miles from the southern reaches of California's Cascade Range to lower Oregon....
By Michele Bigley, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Full disclosure: I am no Bigfoot junkie. In fact, before strapping my mom, my 3-year-old and myself in the car and traveling north on U.S....
By Mark Boster
It is not the profusion of wild flowers, the gently swaying grasses or the golden sun on Half Dome that brings most people to Yosemite in...