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Northern California: Wine Country to the Redwoods – Route Guide
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From the Golden Gate through America's vineyard and into its cathedral: Napa and Sonoma's tasting rooms give way to Anderson Valley pinot, the Mendocino headlands' New England-on-the-Pacific villages, and finally the Avenue of the Giants, 50 kilometres beneath the tallest living things on Earth. Fog, zinfandel and trees older than Rome.
Northern California: Wine Country to the Redwoods is a 430 km one-way journey (self-drive). It works best as 4–6 days; the plan below is the 5-day version for September, built from 922 verified places, with real road-routed transit times, opening hours and daylight checked.
Plan your own version → 4-day plan · 5-day plan · 6-day plan · best time to go
The route
What you'll see
Choose your length
When to go
Best months: September, October, November
Crush season — vineyard air smells of fermenting fruit, harvest dinners stack the calendars, and the coastal fog gives the afternoons back.
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