Traveling California for 3 weeks: What to do
Mar 8th, 2013, 11:15 PM
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Skip Sacramento (unless you're really into trains, in which case, go to the train museum there).
Yosemite will be cold. High backcountry won't really be open for hiking yet. But the valley will be beautiful, plenty to do, some decent day hikes, and you can get a bus down to Wawona and see the Mariposa giant sequoia grove too. We're having a fairly dry winter so far, so the snowpack might be light this year.
Green Tortoise has been around forever, and has a good reputation. There's another tour/shuttle company called Extranomical Tours; I don't know anything about them, but see their vans/minibuses all over.
I think Pt Reyes and Big Sur will be challenging without a car. If you have a drivers license, consider renting a ZipCar in SF and doing Pt Reyes and Muir Woods as a day trip. Or take a tour. Or since you've got a fair amount of time, you may be able use Golden Gate Transit to hit Pt Reyes and Marin. There's lots of good hiking in the Marin Headlands, Muir Beach, Muir Woods, Mt Tamalpais, and Pt Reyes. You could definitely casually work your way up to Pt Reyes in a day or two using GGT's buses, doing lots of good hikes along the way. Mill Valley and Stinson Beach are great places to stay.
What you should really do is go to SF first, stay in some hostel and make friends with some people who have a car
Yosemite will be cold. High backcountry won't really be open for hiking yet. But the valley will be beautiful, plenty to do, some decent day hikes, and you can get a bus down to Wawona and see the Mariposa giant sequoia grove too. We're having a fairly dry winter so far, so the snowpack might be light this year.
Green Tortoise has been around forever, and has a good reputation. There's another tour/shuttle company called Extranomical Tours; I don't know anything about them, but see their vans/minibuses all over.
I think Pt Reyes and Big Sur will be challenging without a car. If you have a drivers license, consider renting a ZipCar in SF and doing Pt Reyes and Muir Woods as a day trip. Or take a tour. Or since you've got a fair amount of time, you may be able use Golden Gate Transit to hit Pt Reyes and Marin. There's lots of good hiking in the Marin Headlands, Muir Beach, Muir Woods, Mt Tamalpais, and Pt Reyes. You could definitely casually work your way up to Pt Reyes in a day or two using GGT's buses, doing lots of good hikes along the way. Mill Valley and Stinson Beach are great places to stay.
What you should really do is go to SF first, stay in some hostel and make friends with some people who have a car
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