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5 DAYS

615 MILES/990KM

GREAT FOR...

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BEST TIME TO GO

April to October for

sunny skies.

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ESSENTIAL

PHOTO

Swallows returning to

San Juan Capistrano.

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BEST FOR

FOODIES

San Francisco’s

mestizo Mission

District.

Mission Trail^28

Follow the path of early Spanish colonists from San Diego to

Sonoma, embracing the most intriguing of California’s original

missions, with atmospheric inns and eateries along the way.

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Sonoma

Ventura

SanDiego

SanLuis

Obispo

Los

Angeles

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San Francisco

Take time out in the

soulful Mission District

555 miles

Santa Barbara

Spanish colonial

outpost by the sea

215 miles

San Juan Capistrano

Justifiably nicknamed

‘the Jewel of the

Missions’

65 miles

San Juan Bautista

A ghostly, earthquake-

rattled, old mission

town

455 miles

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS