Destinations

Nine towns, and a reason to go to each.

Every home in every one of them has been slept in by somebody here. These are the notes we would give a friend.

9 towns · 68 homes

Oak valley an hour inland. Hot in August, perfect in November.

Redwoods against the Pacific. Book early; there are only four.

Surf town with a working pier and the best light in winter.

A loop road, four lakes, and the eastern Sierra behind them.

North shore. Ski in the season, swim in the four weeks that are not.

An island in the bay, twenty minutes from the city and nothing like it.

A railway town at 6,000 feet that kept its main street.

Mid-century houses under mountains. Go between October and April.

Pines at 5,000 feet, an hour up the hill from the desert floor.

Somewhere we do not go yet?

Tell us where. We add towns in the order people ask for them.