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California Coastal National Monument made Frommer’s’ Best Places to Go List for 2016

If you were to design a place that has all the things you dream of finding in an ideal rustic coastal getaway, you’d come up with Mendocino County: undeveloped coastal drives, country bistros and eccentric roadhouses, sloping houses in cozy villages, redwoods you can drive through, and an ocean dashing itself madly against crags—President Obama recently added its Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands to the California Coastal National Monument. Add to that a cosmopolitan population of artists and entrepreneurs that places a pleasant emphasis on wineries (there are more than 90), handmade cheese, and boutique breweries, and you’ve got an antidote to the twee self-importance and overpriced bombast of Napa and Sonoma, just south. Mendocino is a throwback that still has an edge, possessing the saltiness of a seaward community and the sophistication of a modern-minded escape. It’s a less frenetic Big Sur for people who’d rather relax. Get to it by flying to Santa Rosa, or better yet, fly into San Francisco and make the scenic 2 ½-hour drive. With every mile, you may be plotting your own permanent escape to this patch—just close enough to the city to be lively, just far enough to be both wild and winsome.

Other destinations featured in Frommer’s’ Best Places to Go List for 2016 include places like South Africa, New Zealand, China, Spain, Italy and more.