California Tourist Attractions

California Tourism Places

California Attractions - The State nicknamed as Sunshine State is an ideal for tourists and it is not possible to cover the vast and varied landscapes of Northern and Southern California - from the North Coast to Shasta in a single trip. So for your information the attractions as Beaches, Theme Parks, Family Restaurants, hotels and amusement park for kids offered aplenty in Northern and Southern California are given segment-wise as follows:

Northern California tourist attracts tourists mainly for the wine countries.

In Northern California, Napa and Sonoma valleys for tasting the finest wine varieties of the world. Napa valley in Northern California(CA) is the most popular tourist spot for its temperate climatic conditions and the best soil for wineries. From the month of June onwards up to late autumn, tourists are flocking this Northern California regions with luxurious spas, hotel, restaurant and inns with all amenities, beautiful sunlight and relaxing vacation and tourist spot. Most of the travel packages in Northern California(CA) include Napa valley importantly in their schedule of places and in list of Northern Califorina Tourist Spotst. A locomotive tour by the wine train is available for undertaking round trips and fine food and best wines are served in the train itself. Sonoma in Northern California county is one among best tourist spot in Northern California which offers best wines equally with Napa and added attractions are touring the wineries, hot-air ballooning; visiting redwood forests, hotels and family farms are some of the best tourist spot for kids, men and women in Northern California.

Beaches Best Tourist spot in Southern California:

• Huntington Beach in California - 40 miles from Los Angeles, Southern California(CA), this Surf city has over eight miles of sandy beach to be enjoyed with sunny weather, cool breeze, nearest tourist attraction to Huntington Beach.
• Crystal Cove - here you can walk miles along the sandy beach and see the scenic beauties located in Orange County of Southern California.
• Dana Point - You can start your whale watching tour with yachting in any of the 2,500 yachts in the jetty within one and half miles of two marinas.
• Salt Creek Beach - An ideal beach for surfing starting from the 1960's.
• Pismo Beach - you can drive your car or walk along the beach leisurely and see the spectacular sceneries of the sea-shore, hotels, restaurants and many more tourist spot around the beach.
• Santa Monica - A coastal get-away city with charmingly beautiful beach and tourism spot, family restaurants.
• Venice Beach - the biggest of Southern California(CA) for enjoying palm trees, surfing, sand and the sun.
• Pacific Beach - a popular San Diego's beach for board-walking.
• Zuma Beach - Malibu: Northwest of Los Angeles County, 21 miles broad coastline along the Pacific Ocean.
• New Port Beach - an expensive real estate portion of Southern California for its 6 miles of coastline.
• Laguna Beach - a must-see in your list of Southern California Tourist spot to be visited. Provides sandy beach, tide pools, shopping centers and world-class family restaurants, hotels for dining.
• San Clemente - sun shining almost the year round with scenic foot-hills and fifteen square miles of coastline.

Tourist Attractions in San Diego and California Attractions

Belmont Theme Park:

San Diego's largest and best adventurous children's or kids play-center in the beach front and best tourist attraction spot. Traditional family entertainment and seeking fun is enabled by its Giant Dipper Roller Coaster and Plunge; Bumper Mania; Vertical Plunge; Liberty Carousel; Tilt-A-Whirl, Thunder Boats; Crazy submarine; Pirates Cove and Sea Serpent are all present in Belmont Theme Park.

Disneyland:

The ever growing creation of world famous Walt Disney. A must-see tourist spot in your tour for relishing the memory for a very long time to come. The magic of this Disneyland, amusement park lies in its fantastic arrangements and imagination of Walt Disney. People of all ages will forget the time once inside and spend a whole day minimum in Disneyland.

San Diego Wild Animal Park:

San Diego Wild Animal Park 1800 acre animal park is 20 times larger than San Diego zoo, is the best tourist spot for kids and you can see herds of animals, nearly 3500 of them in 260 species, in their natural background roaming as they do in Asia and Africa. A family entertainment with accredited botanical garden.

Raging Waters:

California's water theme park and the largest with 50 acre area. Aquatic recreations like surfing; rides; water slides; speed slides; children's pools and beach for sunbathing and open during summer months.

Los Angeles attractions:

This world famous city is home for Hollywood, the Mecca of world cinema creation, contains a number of recreation spot like Universal Studios, Beverly Hills area, homes of movie celebrities, Disney's California Adventure, Theme Parks, Amusement Parks, Aquarium of Sea World and so on.

San Francisco Tourist Attractions in California:

You can enjoy the water front - Fisherman's Wharf; Pier 39; Ghirardelli Square - walk through them to enjoy shopping and street performances by local artists.

Walk on the Golden Gate Bridge, an engineering marvel and the most photographed sight in San Francisco. Visit Alcatraz, the former prison and present day popular tourist spot. The Powel cable car will take you to Union Square atop where elegant hotels and enchanting shopping are available. Visit Chinatown and see the lifestyle of Chinese and buy Chinese handicrafts.

Nevada tourist attractions in California:

The tourists visiting Nevada State have a lot to see and enjoy including Las Vegas Tourist spot and Attractions, Hoover Dam; Lake Mead; Great Basin National Theme Park; Overton-Valley of Fire State Park and Sutcliffe-Pyramid Lake which are the most popular attractions.