Travel for Kids: North Coast, California



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		North Coast



		The northern coast of California extends for hundreds of miles – rocky coves and pebbly beaches, silvery driftwood logs tossed up willy nilly on the sand, tide pools inhabited with exciting sea creatures for kids to discover, where towering redwood groves meet the sea, and the tang of salt air is so sweet.

Point Reyes National Seashore

Redwood National and State Parks

Crescent City



			Travel for Kids has so many fun things to do with kids on the North Coast, but you'll need a fun place to stay. Here's our own Travel for Kids hand-picked list of family hotels for the North Coast, all styles and price ranges, and near to places you'll want to explore:

			Sonoma Coast family hotels

			Redwood Coast family hotels

Operation Redwood
S. Terrell French

In Mendocino, the old-growth redwoods are about to be cut down, but Julian and his friends have a plan to save the grove – a tree house protest. Wonderful local color, you too can sit in the branches of a towering coast redwood, a thousand years old. (Chapter book)

Walk Across the Sea
Susan Fletcher

1886. In Crescent City, Eliza Jane lives in the lighthouse, where the mainland is only accessible at low tide, "starfish clutching like bright orange hands to the rocks." (Chapter book)

(More children's books on other California pages)

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