Looks like you have a great trip planned. Taking Hwy 1 north of San Francisco is a great ride. Highway 128 between 101 and the coast is also one of my favorite roads. A few times a year I head up 101 north and take 128 to the coast then up Hw1 to Fort Bragg to enjoy an awesome cheese burger at Jenny's Giant Burgers in Fort Bragg. Then take the coast back home.
What month of the year is this? Have you ever taken the 5 from Californian to Oregon or Washington? I’ll be doing my first road trip from Los Angeles to Bellingham Washington next year. Any tips would be great. I only want to have to stay at 2 hotels along the way. Thank you in advance! I enjoyed this video!
This is from our June 2024 trip, which gets you late Spring weather in the Northern Pacific Coastal regions. The I-5 from SoCal to NorCal is a direct but dull freeway with lots of trucks and little to see. It runs through the California Central Valley area, tends to be warm to hot, and doesn't offer much to look at besides farmland. Once in NorCal (Bay Area), the I-5 becomes more scenic as you head North through Redding, especially around Shasta and into Oregon. However, it remains an interstate with urban stops like Eugene and Portland mixed with stretches of mountain and forest, and then back to freeway monotony. To do the ride with only 2 hotel stays, the I-5 is the faster/better choice. If you have the time, the 101 is a much more scenic route, especially as you go North from SF. The LA to SF stretch also includes some traffic and freeway (traffic can get heavy depending on the day and time between LA and Santa Barbara and as you get closer to the Bay Area). Still, it largely follows the Pacific Coast, and you get ocean views and coastal towns along the way. The 101 becomes much more scenic as you ride up through Eureka and into Oregon, with great coastal views, redwood forests, and small coastal towns. The 101 will take longer, but it is a much better ride.
@ thank you so much for all of the detailed info! I actually continued watching your other parts to this video after I left you the comment! Great videos! Yes, I’ve driven the coast before to Marin, because I grew up out there. I’m thinking of leaving in the middle of the night, taking the 5 until I get to Oregon. Then getting to the 101 along the coast and doing the Oregon coast. Is that possible? I keep looking at maps to see. I look up TH-cams and yours was the most informative. I would drive for about 14 hrs until getting to one of the Oregon coast towns (if I can cut from the 5 to 101 just before getting into Oregon.) I would stay the night maybe in Cannon. It looks great there. Or Newport. Then the next morning drive the rest of the coast and cut to Seattle. Stay one night there. Then drive to Bellingham. Those are my thoughts!
If you’re willing to do the long ride up the 5, you have a couple of options that will get you to the coast once you get near the CA/OR border. You could take the I5 up past Grants Pass, then jump on the Coos Bay-Roseburg (Rt-42) West through Camas valley and to Coos Bay. That gets you on the 101 and the coast. Alternatively, you could take the 5 to Redding, then the 299 West to Cresent City, which will also get you to the 101. The 299 route is prettier and the shorter route distance wise, but will take longer and comes with a lot of mountain twisty roads and remote areas. Not the best route for winter months. Actually I was just checking Google maps and both routes will take you through areas that have winter storm warnings in effect currently. If you planning on doing this ride in winter you will need to plan around the weather. If you are thinking about doing this trip in winter, you are going to be better off taking the I5 to Tracy, then the 580 through the East Bay (Livermore, Hayward, Oakland) across the Richmond bridge to the 101 N. It’s a mostly freeway option until you get further North, but you won’t hit snow and winter road closures (rarely parts of the 5 will get snow in winter, but that can be planned around for the most part). It’s a long trip to do in a few days, give yourself time for the unknowns and unexpected. Hope this helps.
@ Thank you so much for your help, kindness, and detailed responses! It really shows you care about experiencing places and having others experience them as well. I will be driving up in late May next year. I am only confused about your first sentence in this response… “if you’re willing to do the long ride up the 5” as I thought doing the 5 would be faster until cutting through the roads you mentioned. Anyhow, I don’t want to bother. Thank you so much for your tips and advice! Subscribed!
@@CanineConsistency@CanineConsistency My pleasure, always willing to help fellow travelers. Late May would be a great time of year to ride up in the NorCa, OR, and WA coastal areas. Some areas will have chilly temperatures and fog, but it will be green and beautiful. On the I5 question, sorry for the confusion. I just meant that if you decide to take that route, it would be faster as it's all freeway but dull and monotonous as there is little to see along most of that route. Good luck on your ride, and have fun!
The 101 in Oregon was amazing with coastline and the forest and I’m a lover of small towns..SUBSCRIBED!!!
@@rippingon2wheels thanks! Amazing ride, amazing countryside.
Looks like you have a great trip planned. Taking Hwy 1 north of San Francisco is a great ride. Highway 128 between 101 and the coast is also one of my favorite roads. A few times a year I head up 101 north and take 128 to the coast then up Hw1 to Fort Bragg to enjoy an awesome cheese burger at Jenny's Giant Burgers in Fort Bragg. Then take the coast back home.
Amazing riding through that area, nothing quite like it.
What month of the year is this? Have you ever taken the 5 from Californian to Oregon or Washington? I’ll be doing my first road trip from Los Angeles to Bellingham Washington next year. Any tips would be great. I only want to have to stay at 2 hotels along the way. Thank you in advance! I enjoyed this video!
This is from our June 2024 trip, which gets you late Spring weather in the Northern Pacific Coastal regions. The I-5 from SoCal to NorCal is a direct but dull freeway with lots of trucks and little to see. It runs through the California Central Valley area, tends to be warm to hot, and doesn't offer much to look at besides farmland. Once in NorCal (Bay Area), the I-5 becomes more scenic as you head North through Redding, especially around Shasta and into Oregon. However, it remains an interstate with urban stops like Eugene and Portland mixed with stretches of mountain and forest, and then back to freeway monotony. To do the ride with only 2 hotel stays, the I-5 is the faster/better choice. If you have the time, the 101 is a much more scenic route, especially as you go North from SF. The LA to SF stretch also includes some traffic and freeway (traffic can get heavy depending on the day and time between LA and Santa Barbara and as you get closer to the Bay Area). Still, it largely follows the Pacific Coast, and you get ocean views and coastal towns along the way. The 101 becomes much more scenic as you ride up through Eureka and into Oregon, with great coastal views, redwood forests, and small coastal towns. The 101 will take longer, but it is a much better ride.
@ thank you so much for all of the detailed info! I actually continued watching your other parts to this video after I left you the comment! Great videos! Yes, I’ve driven the coast before to Marin, because I grew up out there. I’m thinking of leaving in the middle of the night, taking the 5 until I get to Oregon. Then getting to the 101 along the coast and doing the Oregon coast. Is that possible? I keep looking at maps to see. I look up TH-cams and yours was the most informative. I would drive for about 14 hrs until getting to one of the Oregon coast towns (if I can cut from the 5 to 101 just before getting into Oregon.) I would stay the night maybe in Cannon. It looks great there. Or Newport. Then the next morning drive the rest of the coast and cut to Seattle. Stay one night there. Then drive to Bellingham. Those are my thoughts!
If you’re willing to do the long ride up the 5, you have a couple of options that will get you to the coast once you get near the CA/OR border.
You could take the I5 up past Grants Pass, then jump on the Coos Bay-Roseburg (Rt-42) West through Camas valley and to Coos Bay. That gets you on the 101 and the coast.
Alternatively, you could take the 5 to Redding, then the 299 West to Cresent City, which will also get you to the 101.
The 299 route is prettier and the shorter route distance wise, but will take longer and comes with a lot of mountain twisty roads and remote areas. Not the best route for winter months.
Actually I was just checking Google maps
and both routes will take you through areas that have winter storm warnings in effect currently. If you planning on doing this ride in winter you will need to plan around the weather.
If you are thinking about doing this trip in winter, you are going to be better off taking the I5 to Tracy, then the 580 through the East Bay (Livermore, Hayward, Oakland) across the Richmond bridge to the 101 N. It’s a mostly freeway option until you get further North, but you won’t hit snow and winter road closures (rarely parts of the 5 will get snow in winter, but that can be planned around for the most part).
It’s a long trip to do in a few days, give yourself time for the unknowns and unexpected. Hope this helps.
@ Thank you so much for your help, kindness, and detailed responses! It really shows you care about experiencing places and having others experience them as well. I will be driving up in late May next year. I am only confused about your first sentence in this response… “if you’re willing to do the long ride up the 5” as I thought doing the 5 would be faster until cutting through the roads you mentioned.
Anyhow, I don’t want to bother. Thank you so much for your tips and advice! Subscribed!
@@CanineConsistency@CanineConsistency My pleasure, always willing to help fellow travelers.
Late May would be a great time of year to ride up in the NorCa, OR, and WA coastal areas. Some areas will have chilly temperatures and fog, but it will be green and beautiful. On the I5 question, sorry for the confusion. I just meant that if you decide to take that route, it would be faster as it's all freeway but dull and monotonous as there is little to see along most of that route.
Good luck on your ride, and have fun!