Description
Take the ultimate West Coast road trip this summer with The Best Coast—a full-color illustrated travel guide to all the must-visit roadside attractions, beloved landmarks, hidden histories, and offbeat delights on Washington, Oregon, and California’s historic highways, include the Pacific Coast Highway!
From San Diego, California, all the way up to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, you'll find unusual facts, hidden history, epic Americana, and off-the-beaten-path adventures up and down the coast.
This Road Trip Atlas Includes:
Route Maps - the coastal route via historic Highways 101 and 1 (the PCH) and an inland route up Highway 99
City Guides - San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle
30+ Itineraries and Side Trips - Catalina Island, Joshua Tree National Park, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, wine country, Crater Lake National Park, the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Rainier National Park, the San Juan Islands, and Vancouver, BC.
Travel Tips - safety, rules of the road, wise planning, and packing lists (for the traveler and for the car)
Wildlife Checklists
Index of places, parks and attractions
Resources - navigational aids, travel information, passes and permits, books, websites and films
Hit the road with this one-of-a-kind road trip travel guide through California, Oregon, and Washington that tells the story of the diversity and depth that created the West Coast we know and love today!
About the Author
CHANDLER O'LEARY is an illustrator and lettering artist, and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the author of The Best Coast: Illustrated Adventures along the West Coast's Historic Highways and the author of an illustrated travel blog called Drawn the Road Again. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.
JESSICA SPRING holds an MFA from the Center for Book and Paper Arts. She is a letterpress printer and teacher and the proprietor of Springtide Press.
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