On the other side of the Gulf is calm Auckland (Bay bears his name), known for its theaters, Paramount (1931) and Fox Oakland Fieche (1928), as well as Lake Merritt - the first national state park. To the north is the town of Berkeley - the location of the oldest and most prestigious state university.

 

To the north of Frisco, in the valleys of Napa and Sonoma, California's Wine Country begins - the land of vineyards, distilleries (there are about 230), wild flowers and green hills. It produced only 5% of all wine state, but retained many of the old traditions and because this area is famous for the most delicious drinks, valued even abroad. Also, the north-east of San Francisco can be found Historical Park Marshall Gold Discovery (the first gold mines were discovered in the area in California, gave rise to the "gold rush"), Sequoia National Park (here grow the biggest trees in the world - 2500- year-old sequoia "General Sherman" in the Giant Forest, for example, is the largest tree in the world: the circumference of its trunk reaches 31.1 meters, and height - about 84 meters) and King Canyon (the deepest canyon in the United States), Redwood Park (45 thousand hectares of relict forests and the largest population of Roosevelt elk in the world), as well as the famous Yosemite national park is split into land around the most famous glacial valley of the planet (except the park, protecting the unique glacial landscape in the midst of a dry mountain forests, there is a museum and several art galleries).

 

In addition, the vast expanses of the California store a lot of other places of interest, including Lake Claire Lake, with its 160-kilometer coastline (the largest natural freshwater lake in California) and an amazing place for sport fishing, the seaside resort of Big Sur with its long beaches and excellent conditions for active holiday by the sea, luxurious resort in Pebble beach, with its world-class golf courses and beautiful road Seventin-Miles Drive, "the Riviera West coast" - Laguna beach, the largest beach in the Los Angeles area - Zuma, beautiful landscapes countryside Inland-Empire, Shasta Keskeyd region in the northeastern part of the state with its dam, the lake and Mount Shasta (there are 7 national forest reserves, the largest lake Trinity ALPS and picturesque southern foothills of the Cascade mountains), beautiful wilderness of the High Sierra, the National park of "Death Valley", with its desert landscapes, the National park Joshua Tree (its relic vegetation has no analogues in the world), as well as national scenic area of ​​the Mojave desert.