@lisarosanty: 📌SAVE this California road trip for first-timers 🚗🌴 Best places to visit in California 💌 Follow for more travel guides & itineraries! California is HUGE and that’s why most people get confused about where to go. If this is your first time, steal this ultimate loop itinerary 👇 You can start from San Francisco or Los Angeles and do the full circle. 🌉 Stop 1: San Francisco (2 days) Golden Gate Bridge Palace of Fine Arts Lombard Street Cable Car Ride Painted Ladies Fisherman’s Wharf & Pier 39 Alcatraz Island Golden Gate Park Chinatown Mission Dolores Park Twin Peaks 🍷 Stop 2: Napa Valley (Day Trip from SF) Napa Valley Welcome Sign Hot Air Balloon Ride or Napa Valley Wine Train Lunch in Yountville or St. Helena Wine Tasting 🏔️ Stop 3: Lake Tahoe (2 days) Emerald Bay State Park Vikingsholm Castle Inspiration Point Eagle Falls & Eagle Lake Hike Monkey Rock Trail Sand Harbor State Park Bonsai Rock Secret Cove or Chimney Beach Cave Rock Trail 🌲 Stop 4: Yosemite National Park (3 days) Tunnel View Bridalveil Fall El Capitan Meadow Lower Yosemite Falls Yosemite Valley View Mist Trail (Vernal & Nevada Falls) Sentinel / Cook’s Meadow Loop Mirror Lake Glacier Point Washburn Point Sentinel Dome Taft Point 🌳 Stop 5: Sequoia & Kings Canyon NPs (2 days) Sequoia NP General Sherman Tree Congress Trail Moro Rock Tunnel Log Kings Canyon Grant Grove Zumwalt Meadow Tokopah Falls Roaring River Falls 🌴 Stop 6: Los Angeles (2 days) Griffith Observatory Lake Hollywood Park Hollywood Walk of Fame Rodeo Drive Beverly Gardens Park The Getty Center or Getty Villa Santa Monica Pier Venice Beach & Canals 🌊 Stop 7: Big Sur (2 days) Bixby Creek Bridge Garrapata Bluff Trail Garrapata Beach McWay Falls Limekiln State Park Sand Dollar Beach Partington Cove Pfeiffer Beach 🐚 Return to San Francisco (via Highway 1) Optional stops in Monterey & Carmel-by-the-Sea: Lovers Point & Pacific Grove 17-Mile Drive Point Lobos State Natural Reserve Carmel Beach California Road Trip · Best California Road Trip Itinerary · California National Parks Road Trip · California Road Trip 2 week Itinerary · Ultimate California Itinerary
