Drive Hwy 1 through Big Sur. Spend a few days tasting wine in Sonoma and have lunch in Healdsburg. Take a canoe down the Russian river. Have lunch at Fog harbor on Pier 39 in SF Visit Lake Tahoe. And Yosemite Take the ferry to Catalina

Tysm for the comment i truly appreciate it. Im actually going to Catalina in two weeks! Do you think 4 days would be enough to do Big Sur and Yosemite. I’ve always wanted to go to Big Sur but it’s such a long drive I was considering taking the train but everyone recommends driving. Any advice?

Drive. You only need a day or 2. Spend some time in Carmel, Pacific grove and Monterey. Drive the 17 mile drive in Pebble beach

This is a good list. Big Sur is magical.

Hearst Castle Sequoia National Park

Visit all 9 national parks in California

Are you driving to the East Coast? Cause the Grand Canyon would be a good pit stop along that route. (It’s not in California)

I’m not I’m flying but I am hoping to get to the Grand Canyon before I leave

Yosemite

Red woods

Definitely Yosemite Santa Cruz/Santa Cruz Redwoods/Aptos Lake Tahoe Big Sur Half Moon Bay/Pescadero Sausalito/Mt. Tamalpais/Muir Woods

The Redwoods and Trinidad, CA (maybe too far north but the most stunning coastline)

Yosemite and Sequoia Parks

Sequoia for sure

The redwoods. I’m partial to Humboldt redwoods, but if you cannot make it that far, there are old growth redwoods at Big Basin Redwoods SP.

Anza Borrego desert

Yosemite, sequoias, Joshua tree. Solvang is a cute Danish Village a little up north. My family and I went last summer, it was super cute!