California Coastal Byways: Backcountry Drives for the Whole Family (Backcountry Byways)

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Product description 50 roads of California's best adventures along coastal roads, from the Oregon border to the San Diego area. Discover breath-taking drop-offs, incredible beaches, and historic towns. This book covers trips from the Klamath and North Coast Ranges to Big Sur, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Review "California Coastal Byways is well-organized and presented, striking a solid balance between just enough information and too much; one of the best guides of its type around. Every West Coast-bound SUV should have a copy in the glovebox." Maryland Public Television's MotorWeek program said, "Author Tony Huegel has produced some of the best guides that we've ever seen for those who really want to get away with the whole family. (Byways guides) all offer concise directions, clear maps and excellent advice on how to get the most out of your off-road adventure." -- Open Road Magazine From the Publisher Thanks to the modern sport-utility vehicle, motoring through California's spectacular and varied wildlands is now as much for Buffy as Bubba. Whether you're a footloose single, family with young children or a vagabonding retiree, you can use the off-highway travel capabilities built into your SUV to comfortably and safely explore the backcountry byways of California's coastal mountains more easily than ever before. Happy trails! About the Author Travel writer Tony Huegel began introducing America to the concept of backcountry touring in 1993, when he launched his innovative "Byways" series of adventure driving guidebooks. He and his family had discovered that, thanks to their 4wd sport-utility vehicle, they could explore western wildlands and remote historic sites comfortably, conveniently and safely anytime. After growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and earning a bachelor's degree in journalism at U.C. Berkeley, Tony worked as a reporter and photographer for newspapers in Wyoming, California and Idaho. His SUV-oriented backcountry adventure articles now appear regularly in Road & Track magazine's new spinoff, Open Road, as well as 4Wheel Drive & Sport Utility magazine. He and his family have lived in Idaho since 1985. It was in Idaho, a state noted for its vast, unspoiled expanses of publicly owned wildlands, that he and his family discovered that backpacks and blisters were unnecessary to enjoy wild and remote places of great natural beauty. In almost any stock SUV, they could easily explore backroads and 4x4 routes through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the West by day, and relax poolside by night. Tony is now the leading chronicler of the American West's best adventure roads, and you can join him in his travels with your own copy of a "Byways" adventure guide!