The Rough Guide to California

by Rough Guides, Nick Edwards, Mark Ellwood

A comprehensive guidebook to California with full coverage of the state's sights and attractions and detailed listings of accommodation -- from budget to upscale - restaurants and nightlife. In-depth coverage of all the national and state parks and reserves, including Death Valley, Sequoia, Yosemite and Lassen, with detailed information on hiking, rafting, and other outdoor activities. A full-colour section introduces California, and three new full-colour inserts explore California food and drink, opportunities for outdoor pursuits and Californian music. From stuffing your face with tacos in San Diego to searching for Lemurians around Mt Shasta, this guide brings California to life.

Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to California

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

800 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1994

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Marc Lamot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rough is the word. To my taste it was a bit shallow

[Michael Mills · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kept my wife and I company on our honeymoon around California. Great coverage of the famous spots you'll be bound to visit, and terrific suggestions for less obvious places to check out; after a trip to Hearst Castle, one of our favourite meals ended up being at a taqueria in Monterrey we'd never have found in a million years otherwise.

The potted histories of the main areas you visit are priceless in the context they give, and genuinely fascinating to boot.

Indispensable.

[Luciana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great routes & places to visit. Have jotted areas of interest down & will revert to looking at this book again when we get ready to make our roadtrip!

[John Gentry · Rating 1 out of 5]

too hard to really use to plan anything. too much information not enough order.

[Vikna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helped me plan the whole trip.

[Sarah F · Rating 3 out of 5]

8th edition