The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas: Illustrated Adventures along the West Coasts Historic Highways (Travel Guide to Washington, Oregon, California & PCH)

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Go on the ultimate West Coast road trip this summer with The Best Coast—a full-color illustrated travel guide to all the must-visit roadside attractions, beloved landmarks, hidden histories, and offbeat delights on Washington, Oregon, and California’s historic highways, include the Pacific Coast Highway!  

From San Diego, California, all the way up to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, you’ll find unusual facts, hidden history, epic Americana, and off-the-beaten-path adventures up and down the coast. 

This Road Trip Atlas Includes:  

Route Maps – the coastal route via historic Highways 101 and 1 (the PCH) and an inland route up Highway 99
City Guides – San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle
30+ Itineraries and Side Trips – Catalina Island, Joshua Tree National Park, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, wine country, Crater Lake National Park, the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Rainier National Park, the San Juan Islands, and Vancouver, BC.
Travel Tips – safety, rules of the road, wise planning, and packing lists (for the traveler and for the car)
Wildlife Checklists
Index of places, parks and attractions
Resources – navigational aids, travel information, passes and permits, books, websites and films 

Hit the road with this one-of-a-kind road trip travel guide through California, Oregon, and Washington that tells the story of the diversity and depth that created the West Coast we know and love today!

From the Publisher

Pack your bags and hit the road!

Get ready for an unforgettable adventure: this coastal route, a combination of US Highway 101 and State Route 1, commonly called Highway 1, gets you up close and personal with nearly every twist and turn of the Pacific shore. These historic highways will show you sunny SoCal beaches, the cliffs of Big Sur, the hills of San Francisco, towering redwoods, rugged Northwest sea stacks—and mile upon mile of breathtaking ocean views.

San Francisco

Candy-hued Victorian row houses dominate many of the city’s steep hillsides, creating colorful, scenic views in every direction.

Marin County

The houseboat community at Sausalito’s Waldo Point Harbor inspired Otis Redding to pen his classic hit “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay.”

Though it may not get the attention that the coastal routes do, the inland route along historic Highway 99 takes you to the West Coast’s most diverse destinations, including all the wildly varied climate regions—plus all three state capitals. You’ll visit searing deserts and alpine peaks, barren plains and inland seas, the largest cities and the smallest towns, from ancient history to the wave of the future.

Forest Adventures

The meadows in redwood country are grazing haunts for Roosevelt elk, but don’t approach them! Rutting bulls and mother cows can be dangerously aggressive.

Keep Portland Weird

The White Stag sign has changed its slogan many times over the years, beginning as a sporting-goods billboard and transforming into a city-owned landmark.

Explore Washington

In contrast to the rain forests of the western Olympic Peninsula, the area northeast of the mountains is a “blue hole” of sunny skies and calm seas. This whole different ecosystem and farming region can be toured with a series of short detours off of Highway 101. One 5-mile hike takes you to a lighthouse available for rentals for honorary lightkeepers.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1632171740
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sasquatch Books; Illustrated edition (April 9, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1632154560
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1632171740
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.74 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.03 x 0.84 x 10.5 inches