Sigarms
Super Member
I might kick myself for asking, but if driving from Angels Camp and I wanted to drive over the golden state bridge to Muir woods, what type of drive time could I expect? Better days (perhaps weekend) to make the drive through the city? I see what you're talking about hitting 101 from Petaluma, but you could have been talking about from R1, because looking at the map, not certain how I would go west from Angels Camp.Muir Woods and some private reserves just north of SF are gorgeous Redwood groves, well worth seeing. But I would cut over to the coast from 101 via Petaluma, an easy shortcut. Then beyond (farther north) of the Russian River is the prettiest part of coastal SR 1, sililar to the Big Sur region, but you would likely turn around and come back south the same way because there's no easy way to get back over to 101 north of there.
I figure it we could do it in a day, depending on what time we had to leave Angels Camp, it would be worth it for the boy to experience "city" driving (particularly through San Francisco along with going over the Golden State bridge) no matter how insane I could go