Travelling from Las Vegas to San Francicsco and back to LA

Hi All

Need advise:

Travelling route from Las Vegas to San Francisco and back to LA (Departing from Las Vegas on 27th and returning to LA on 6th July). Want to cover Yosemite, Redwood National Park, San Francisco City. Want to also check if the distance is too much to do and is it wise to cover so many places in 10 days time.

Cheers and thanx for all response

Ravi

Travelling from Las Vegas to San Francicsco and back to LA

Except for Redwood National Park, the answers to your questions are on the three pages that follow:

The DRIVING DIRECTIONS page geocities.com/touringsfo/鈥riveDir.html where some of your questions are answered. It%26#39;s augmented by reports linked to the TouringSFO site at http://geocities.com/touringsfo/ entitled ';A Trip to Las Vegas鈥?quot; and ';A Trip to Anaheim鈥?quot;

You might also enjoy a visit to the A BIT OF NON-GAMBLING LAS VEGAS page also linked to the TouringSFO site.

Travelling from Las Vegas to San Francicsco and back to LA

If you%26#39;re interested in big trees, you might want to replace Redwood National Park with Sequoia %26amp; Kings Canyon National Parks. Redwood National Park is a day%26#39;s drive north from San Francisco, while Sequoia and Kings Canyon are between Yosemite and Las Vegas.

Your question about Redwood National Park indicates an interest in tall trees.

simba_8 suggested 芦If you%26#39;re interested in big trees 鈥?Sequoia %26amp; Kings Canyon National Parks.禄

Those parks have the big trees, Sequoia Giganticus. They%26#39;re quite different from, not at all like, the tall Redwoods.

Are they worth seeing? Oh, yeah! When you get home, neither you nor your pictures will be believed about what you saw.

Some posts that TripAdvisor%26#39;s Moderator removed prior to 00:01 GMT of May 4, 2008, may be seen at http://geocities.com/swingcha/Moderate.html

As SwingCha pointed out, the redwood trees in Redwood National Park vs. Sequoia Kings Canyon are indeed different types of trees. Simba _8%26#39;s suggestions was meant to save you some driving (since it%26#39;s almost 6 hours north of SF).

To compromise on both suggestions, consider that you can see the Giant Sequoias while you are in Yosemite (these are the large by volume trees...tall with a huge diameter) and the Redwoods (very, very tall trees, but skinnier) about an hour from San Francisco in Muir Woods, or if you drive any of the coast near Santa Cruz, you might stop by Henry Cowell Redwood State Park or Big Basin State Park.

Redwood National Park is in a gorgeous part of California, that will be very different from LA, Yosemite or San Francisco. However, it is a significant drive north. If you want to be able to spend more time in areas like Yosemite, SF, LA, and perhaps spend some time on the coast between SF and LA, I would recommend switching out some tree viewing sites. If you want to do very quick overviews of California, then you can definitely cover the areas you%26#39;ve listed.

I can%26#39;t tell if you have your lodging/itinerary plotted out already, but a suggested itinerary for more in depth exploration of areas might include soe variation of the following...

27th:drive to east side of yosemite 27th, stay in or near Lee Vining, check out Mono Lake/Bodie

28th: explore Tuolumne Meadows, drive towards Yosemite Valley

29th/30th: Stay in El Portal, explore Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point, Giant Sequoias (you can easily add a day on here, and stay one night in the Groveland area, which will put you heading towards SF)

31st/1st/2nd: stay in SF, explore the city, Muir Woods/Point Reyes area, wine country perhaps?

3rd/4th: drive down the coast, stop in Big Sur area. Explore Big Sure/Carmel/Monterey area.

5th/6th: drive to Los Angeles/explore area.

Whatever you decide to do, have a great time!