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San Rafael
Located in the heart of Marin County, this town has a charming historic center loaded with good restaurants and shops. When the street market takes over the main drag every Thursday evening, it’s transformed into an impromptu pleasure fair.
Hwy 101
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Belvedere Island
This garden island, attached by a causeway to Tiburon, is one of the most exclusive residential areas in the Bay. It’s worth a visit to take in the palatial homes and their sumptuous settings.
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Point Reyes
This wild and windswept peninsula is a huge haven for wildlife, including a herd of tule elk, birds, and wildflowers, The area is also home to cattle and dairy ranches. You can watch migrating whales. Offshore from December to mid-March.
Hwy 1 to Olema, then signposted to Point Reyes
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San Gregorio and Percadero
San Gregorio, protected by cliffs, is the Bay Area’s oldest nudist beach. Pescadero, in addition to having a state beach with wonderful tidepools, is also a lovely town that looks like something out of the Old West, complete with a whitewashed wooden church. The Thriving farming community produces asparagus and pumpkins.
Hwy 1
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Woodside
This bucolic residential area is home to many of the Bay Area’s first families, who built fabulous mansions here in the late 19th century.
Hwy 280
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La Honda
The most picturesque way to make the approach to the tiny community of La Honda and the Skyline Boulevard is Old La Honda Road.
Hwy 280
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Los Gatos & Saratoga
These outpost towns still retain some frontier atmosphere, although some frontier atmosphere, although they are now communities for the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley.
Hwy 280
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San Jose
This sprawling town is an integral part of Silicon Valley enterprises and has popular attractions.
Hwy 101
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Winchester Mystery House
The eccentric 19th-century home of the rifle heiress, Sarah Winchester, took 38 years to build and includes stairways leading to nowhere and windows set into floors.
525 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose - Open 9am-8pm daily - Adm
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Santa Cruz & Captola
This area offers some of the Bay’s best swimming. Santa Cruz also features the famous Boardwalk, a vintage amusement park.
Hwy 1
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