6 day Road Trip from Santa Rosa to Seattle
 

Hi All,

I am in the process of planning a 6 day West Coast Road trip. The trip would be from Aug 31-Sept 5th. Ideally, I would like to fly into Santa Rosa, rent a car and make my way up to Big Sur. From there, I plan to continue traveling north. Tentatively making a brief stop in San Fran for a few hours, then onward to the Redwoods. I would like to check out Portland before making the final destination of Washington (Olympic National Park). I would fly out of Seattle on the last day (evening time).

Obviously, I have not listed specific details. My main question before I start planning specifics is if this is a realistic time frame for such a trip?

Any comments/suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance for your help.

-Christine

>> Ideally, I would like to fly into Santa Rosa, rent a car and make my way up to Big Sur. <<

This make no sense. Santa Rosa is north of SF and Big Sur is quite a ways south of SF. It would be MUCH better to fly into SF or San Jose or Monterey.

There is a MAJOR wild fire just north of Big Sur that will likely still be burning
for a few moer weeks. Right now all teh state parks in Big Sur are closed to the public.

But in any case -- 6 days is not enough time for Santa Rosa > Big Sur > SF > the Redwoods > Portland > ONP > Seattle.

Agreeing with all above. 6 days is not enough time and the order of places, well, is out of order :-)

Welcome to Fodor's!

Six days is not enough to accomplish what you want to do, in fact by including Olympic NP it's really not doable even if you dropped the Big Sur portion.

You need a minimum of 2 1/2 days to see Olympic NP, 1 in Portland to see the Columbia Gorge, 1 to get to the redwoods from SF and 1 1/2 to get from the redwoods to Portland with even a little bit of the Oregon coast thrown in, and 1 for Seattle. That comes to 7, of which 6 would be spent almost entirely in the car.

Not to mention you're traveling at the peak of peaks for hotel demand, and will be paying a fortune for a one-way car rental on short notice.

Up to you, but I'd be heading back to the drawing board.

You need a Plan B, I just checked and the San Jose Mercury News is reporting the Soberanes fire will not be contained until the end of this month. It is only 18% now.