This comprehensive and practical travel handbook provides full details of the sights, plus all the information necessary to get the best value across the entire state of California. Features include: in-depth accounts of the great West Coast cities of LA and San Francisco, exploring all the neighbourhoods from Hollywood to Haight Ashbury; all that is needed to explore the national parks, ranging from Yosemite to the giant trees of Redwood; guidance into the great outdoors - high into California's Gold Country, through Death Valley and across the deserts to Las Vegas; and there are critical first-hand reviews of hotels, restaurants, clubs and bars in every city and town.