Based on the Bay Area's television show Bay Area backroads, these cards offer fifty Northern California adventures. Each card is illustrated with a full color photograph on one side. The other side features a description of the place to visit and detailed directions as to how to get there.

Every week, hundreds of thousands of Northern Californians tune in to Bay Area Backroads for the best ideas on day trips, weekend getaways, and other adventuresit's the highest-rated local TV program in the San Francisco Bay Area. This first book from host Doug McConnell features 50 of his best backroad explorations, primarily in the immediate San Francisco Bay Area, but also extending to the northern redwoods, east to the Sierra Nevada, and south to San Luis Obispo. Each destination features gorgeous color photographs by Stacy Geiken. Including both unique approaches to popular destinations and a wide variety of lesser-known sights, Bay Area Backroads provides adventurers and armchair travelers alike with a fun new way to see Northern California.

California's most authoritative and dynamic travelers have combined tried-and-true favorite entries from their three bestselling Bay Area Backroads books with their latest discoveries to present this completely up-to-date guide to out-of-the-way sights in Northern California. Illustrations. Index.

Guidebook to interesting places in the San Francisco Bay area, northern California, and up to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe. Includes restaurants.

A completely new volume of backroad sites and attractions, with hundreds of places never before listed.

"A guide to the back roads of the Greater Bay Area. Twenty-eight trips that can be made in a day or less. Each trip has a detailed map, one or more photos, historical background, and often quotations from early travelers"--Provided by publisher.

From Sonoma to Santa Cruz, east to Solono and beyond, this unique guide surpasses any other in placing the best and most unusual Bay Area dining and lodging at the reader's fingertips.