Visit Bay Area Backroads website. This is a San Francisco television show that presents day trips about northern California. You can read about them and/or view videos of the trips.

California Heart Land is another TV show worth watching for things to do in California.

If you have kids or want to show kids a good time, then visit the Bay Area Kid Fun page.

Day Trips in the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco

• China Town
• Exploratorium
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Peninsula

• Filoli - Woodside
• Hidden Villa - Los Altos Hills

South Bay

• Big Basin Redwood State Park - Felton
• Bonfante Gardens Family Theme Park - Gilroy
• Children's Discovery Museum - San Jose
• Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Fremont & San Jose
• Fort Ross State Historic Park - Jenner
• Guadalupe River Park & Gardens - San Jose
• Hakone Japanese Gardens - Saratoga
• Happy Hollow Park and Zoo - San Jose
• Japanese Friendship Garden in Kelly Park - San Jose
• John Steinbeck's Pacific Grove - Pacific Grove
• Kelley Park Trolley (The) - San Jose
• Kelly Park - San Jose History Park - San Jose
• Lick Observatory - Mt. Hamilton
• Monterey Bay Aquaium - Monterey
• Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras - Morgan Hill - May
• National Steinbeck Center - Salinas
• Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad - Felton
• Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum - San Jose
• Rosicrucian Park - San Jose
• Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk - Santa Cruz
• Tech Museum of Innovation (The) - San Jose
• Villa Montalvo - Saratoga
• Winchester Mystery House - San Jose

California's Gold Country

• The California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited.
• California's Gold Rush Country: Historic Sites & Spectacular Scenery
• Gold Panning and California Gold Country
• California's Gold Rush Country: Show Me The Gold
• Amador Foothill Winery 
• The Ahwahnee Hotel
• Amador Harvest Inn & Deaver Vineyards
• Amber House
• Black Sheep Winery 
• Charles B. Mitchell Vineyards and The Barkley Historic Homestead
• Chateau du Sureau and Yosemite National Park
• Erna's Elderberry House
• Clementine's Bed & Breakfast
• Clos du Lac Cellars Greenstone Winery
• Columbia City Hotel 
• Courtyard Bed & Breakfast
• The Dorrington Hotel & Restaurant
• Druid House Bed & Breakfast - Pine Grove, CA
• The Eller House Bed & Breakfast - Sonora, CA
• Fitzpatrick Winery & Lodge
• The Foxes B & B 
• Garden Gate Inn - 2960 Coloma Street, Placerville CA 95667 - 530-621-4068
• Gold Hill Vineyard
• Golden Key Best Western Inn - Auburn, CA
• Grey Gables Inn
• The Groveland Hotel
• H & M Cottage
• Hammons House Inn
• Hangtown's Gold Bug Park Placerville
• The Historic Avery Hotel
• Historic Cary House Hotel
• The Holbrooke Hotel
• Inn at Parkside
• Inn at Sugar Pine Ranch
• Ione Hotel & Golden Star Restaurant
• Jamestown Historic Hotel
• Jodar Vineyards & Winery 
• Kautz Ironstone Vineyards 
• Kautz Ironstone Vineyards
• Lake Tulloch Resort
• Lava Cap Winery
• The Lodge at Bear Valley
• Madrona Vineyards
• The Mariposa Hotel-inn
  
• The McCaffrey House House Bed & Breakfast Inn
• Montevina Winery 
• Murphys Historic Hotel & Lodge
• Perry Creek Vineyards
• Plymouth House Inn
• Radanovich Winery
• Red Bud Inn
• Renwood Winery
• Restful Nest Bed & Breakfast Resort
• Ryan House 1855
• Savoyard Bed & Breakfast
• The Seasons Bed & Breakfast
• Serenity - a bed & breakfast inn
• Seven-Up-Bar Guest Ranch
• Sherlock Holmes Bed & Breakfast Inn
• Sierra Sky Ranch
• Sorensen's Resort Bed &Breakfast Inn
• Stevenot Winery 
• Story Winery
• Strawberry Inn
• Susan's Place - Wine Bar, Eatery & Inn
• Sutter Creek Inn
• The 10th Green Inn
• Wawona Hotel
• The Wedgewood Inn
• Young's Vineyard
• Murphy's Inn
• Deer Creek Inn
• The Holbrooke Hotel
• Mayfield House
• Power's Mansion Inn
• Best Western Golden Key
• Lincoln House
• Amber House
• The Delta King

Other Gold Country Links

• Calaveras County Visitors Bureau 
• Calaveras County Sesquicentennial 
• Cabin Radio has information on local radio station KKBN, which you can listen to on the web from anywhere in the world.
• Gold Country Bed and Breakfast Inns 
• Hangtown's Gold Bug Park and Mine is featured in this article in the Sacramento Bee.

Northern Coast Inns & Wineries

• Babbling Brook Inn
• Clos La Chance Winery
• DeHaven Valley Farm
• Emilio Guglielmo Winery
• Ferrando's Hideaway
• Howard Creek Ranch
• Husch Vineyards
• The Martine Inn
• Old Saw Mill Lodge
• Rancho San Gregorio
• Silver Mountain Vineyards
• The Stonehouse Inn
• Ventana Vineyards

Other Northern Coast Links

• Abalone Inn - Bed & Breakfast in a romantic hillside Victorian farmhouse in the midst of Point Reyes National Seashore.
• The HumGuide is the online resource for Humboldt County, which includes the town of Eureka.
• MendoNet is the master website for Mendocino County, California, located along the Northern Coast.
• This is an interesting home page for Sonoma County.

Southern California Inns & Wineries

• The Little Inn by the Bay

Other Wine-Related Links