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»CA.CITIES EL PASEO SQUARE is the prime shopping district of Palm Desert, below. YOUR » FINDFUN CITY Oakland visitoakland.org, 510-839-9000 Napa visitnapavalley.com, 707-251-5895 Ventura ventura-usa.com, 800-648-2075 San Luis Obispo visitslo.com, 805-781-2777 Bakersfield visitbakersfield.com, 866-425-7353 Nevada City nevadacountygold.com, 530-265-2692 Eureka redwoods.info, 800-346-3482 Palm Desert palm-desert.org, 800-873-2428 NEVADA CITY: Postcard Perfect In 2010, this postcard-pretty inland community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada counted 3,068 residents—1,000 fewer than it had in 1880 in the afterglow of the California Gold Rush. These days, travelers journey to Nevada City's woodsy setting on the western slopes to admire impeccably restored 19th-century buildings, take in scenic hillside views, ski the nearby mountains, and head to High Country attractions such as Lake Tahoe. Nevada City's English sister-city, Penzance, is a contemporary link to skilled miners from Cornwall who joined the 1849 Gold Rush. The Gold Rush is memorialized at the Miners Foundry Cultural Center and by historical mining 18 2 013 travel guide to c al i fo r n ia exhibits in City Hall. Eye-pleasing and pedestrian-friendly, much of downtown Nevada City is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nevada Theatre, a smartly restored heritage building, hosts a variety of live entertainment. EUREKA: Victorians & Redwoods Tucked into the northwestern corner of California, Eureka, 270 miles (430 km) north of San Francisco on Humboldt Bay, has the largest deep-water port between San Francisco Bay and Washington's Puget Sound. The city of 27,000 also serves as the unofficial capital of the state's Redwood Empire. Once famed for its timber, mines and fisheries, Eureka is a leading West Coast purveyor of succulent farmed oysters. Most significantly for visitors, Eureka is an attractive preserve of Victorian architecture such as the grand 1886 Carson Mansion at 2nd and M streets. Shops, restaurants and B&Bs occupy some of a staggering 1,500 Eureka buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One-million- acre Six Rivers National Forest is a near neighbor. PALM DESERT: True Oasis Eleven miles (18 km) from high-profile Palm Springs is sunny Palm Desert, a city of 48,000 in the Coachella Valley. Palm Desert, as befits its name, combines the manicured lawns, golf courses, tennis courts and swimming pools of a manmade oasis with rugged cycling, off-road hiking and 4-wheel drive excursions in the surrounding desert. Golf is available at 10 city-owned courses, plus prime links such as the J.W. Marriott Desert Springs Resort's 18-hole Palm Course. The city displays more than 130 public-art pieces, many clustered along El Paseo or Fred Waring Drive. Culture is on-stage in the 1980s McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts, and visitors can walk or drive to take free architecture tours featuring an abundance of mid-20th-century commercial buildings and homes. For added grace notes, enjoy the city's well-tended, namesake palm trees . CA IMAGE COURTESY OF THE CITY OF PALM DESERT cooking of Bakersfield's truck stops and roadside diners. Fans of country music can drop by Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, which features mementos of Owens and his band, the Buckaroos, and catch a show there by contemporary country musicians. It's a fine place to listen to a swooning steel guitar by the light of the juke box.

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