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California Spine
SF, PCH/Big Sur, LA · 13 tours · GPS-triggered narration that plays automatically as you explore.
Drive the legendary Pacific Coast Highway, walk the Golden Gate Bridge, and explore the streets of Los Angeles. California's most spectacular drives and walks come alive with stories of gold rush pioneers, Hollywood legends, and the dreamers who built the West Coast.
13 tours in California Spine
Each tour triggers narration automatically based on your GPS location. Pick one and start exploring.
Golden Gate to Fisherman's Wharf
Walk from the Golden Gate Bridge through the Presidio and along the waterfront to Fisherman's Wharf. Hear about the bridge's art deco design, the former military post, and San Francisco's maritime heritage.
View tour details →PCH Big Sur
Drive one of the most scenic highways in the world along the Pacific Coast. From Bixby Creek Bridge to McWay Falls, hear about the artists, hermits, and dreamers who made Big Sur legendary.
View tour details →Pacific Coast Highway: Big Sur
62 miles of California's most dramatic coastline, from Clint Eastwood's Carmel to the tidal waterfall at McWay Falls. Bixby Bridge was built with mules hauling cement down cliffs, Pfeiffer Beach glows purple with manganese garnet, and Orson Welles bought the Nepenthe overlook for $167.
View tour details →LA — Venice Beach to Santa Monica Pier Walk
The beachfront boardwalk from Venice's graffiti walls and Muscle Beach to the Santa Monica Pier's Ferris wheel — LA's most iconic waterfront mile. Skateboarders, street performers, and the Pacific on your right.
View tour details →Lake Tahoe Circle Drive
A full circumnavigation of the clearest lake in America — 72 miles of alpine shoreline straddling California and Nevada. Emerald Bay's impossible blue, Sand Harbor's granite boulders, the Heavenly Gondola's 9,000-foot views, and Vikingsholm Castle tucked into the shore. Two states, one lake, and water so clear you can see 70 feet down.
View tour details →PCH: Monterey to Big Sur
PCH: Monterey to Big Sur — a driving tour in the California region.
View tour details →LA: Griffith Observatory & Los Feliz
LA: Griffith Observatory & Los Feliz — a hybrid tour in the California region.
View tour details →PCH Big Sur — Carmel to San Simeon
The most famous coastal drive in the world. 90 miles of cliffs, bridges, and ocean — from the galleries of Carmel to the elephant seals of San Simeon. Every pullout is a postcard. The road itself is the destination.
View tour details →San Diego — Balboa Park to Gaslamp Quarter Walk
From the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture of Balboa Park (built for the 1915 expo that put San Diego on the map) through the Gaslamp Quarter's Victorian buildings — museums, gardens, craft beer, and the zoo that started with abandoned expo animals.
View tour details →PCH: Cambria to San Luis Obispo
PCH: Cambria to San Luis Obispo — a driving tour in the California region.
View tour details →San Francisco Golden Gate to Fisherman's Wharf Walk
From the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge along the waterfront to Fisherman's Wharf — the walk that takes you from engineering marvel to sea lion circus, with Alcatraz watching from the bay.
View tour details →Napa to Sonoma Connector Drive
California's two most famous wine valleys are separated by a single mountain range. This drive links the refined grandeur of Napa Valley — Yountville's Michelin-starred restaurants, Oakville's Cabernet legends — to Sonoma's more relaxed, ranch-country charm, ending at the historic Sonoma Plaza where California's Bear Flag Republic was born.
View tour details →Yosemite Valley Floor Drive
Drive the 13-mile loop through Yosemite Valley, the crown jewel of the American national park system. Granite monoliths rising 3,000 feet from the valley floor, waterfalls plunging from hanging valleys, and meadows where the Ahwahneechee people lived for thousands of years before a battalion of soldiers changed everything.
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