California
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About California
California or America’s Golden State is one of the country's most beautiful state. It extends along the Pacific Coastline and is known for its diverse landscape and great attractions. From the Redwood Coast, the vineyards of Mendocino County, Sonoma County and Napa Valley, the stunning Mount Shasta, the High Sierras with amazing national parks like Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks to Lake Tahoe on the border with Nevada. Around San Francisco Bay, guests can visit Silicon Valley, Oakland and of course, the city of San Francisco. The central coast has many beach resorts like Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara and Monterey. In the south Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange County and San Diego offer beaches, skiing and attractions such as Disneyland and Sea World. The southeast region offers expansive desert landscapes with explosions of wild flowers in spring, brilliant skies and such natural phenomena as Death Valley.
Good to know
- Capital: Sacramento
- Climate: California regions have very different climates: from temperate in the northwest, Mediterranean in The Central Valley, mountain climate in the Sierra Nevada, to desert climate east of the high Sierra Nevada and southern California
- Timezone: UTC -8
- No. of inhabitants: 35,893,799 (2004)
- Travel alert: EnjoyYourWorld strongly advises you to take necessary precautions for a safe travel. For more info please follow this link
Highlights
California's impressive National Parks
- Death Valley National Park
- John Muir National Historic Site
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park
- Mojave National Preserve
- Point Reyes National Seashore
- Redwood National and State Parks
- San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
- Sequoia National Park
- Yosemite National Park
Getting Around
- Amtrak provides railway service to all major cities
- Greyhound is the major bus carrier
- By car-the Interstate Highways offer a great way to discover the State
- Interstate 5 (the Golden State and Santa Ana freeways) takes you from Canada to Mexico via Seattle, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego
- Interstate 15 takes you from up north Montana to Salt Lake City and Las Vegas to California (San Bernardino and San Diego)
- US Highway 101 (the Ventura and Hollywood freeways) takes you along the beautiful coastline all the way from the state of Washington to the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco to the centre of Los Angeles
- State Highway 1 along the coast from San Francisco to San Diego
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