The Central Coast region begins at Monterey Bay and follows the rugged beauty of the coast down to Santa Barbara and Ventura.
It includes the counties of Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura.
Lying between the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Central Valley is the agricultural heart of California. Most communities lie along the current or historic route of California highway 99, which in some portions has been subsumed by I-5. The major cities defining the ends of the Central Valley are Redding and Bakersfield; the region also includes Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, and Visalia.
The Central Valley is composed of two valleys: the Sacramento Valley north of the San Joaquin River Delta and the San Joaquin Valley south of it.
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California's deserts -- the high Mojave desert in the north and the low Colorado desert in the south -- are lands of extremes: heat and cold, bright light and deep shadows.
This region is noted for the desert resorts near Palm Springs, Joshua Tree National Park, the Anza-Borrego Desert, Imperial Valley/Colorado River Valley, Mojave National Preserve, the Barstow Area, the Mojave/Ridgecrest Area, and Death Valley.
Just east of the Los Angeles basin, the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino taken together call themselves the Inland Empire.
From the snow-capped peak of Mount San Gorgonio, 11,499 feet above sea level, to the Salton Sea, 228 feet below sea level, the Inland Empire is a land of contrasts. Its variety ranges from large cities to small towns, from ski resorts to desert resorts, and from pine forests to date groves.
Strikingly deep blue and remarkably clear, Lake Tahoe straddles the California-Nevada border at an elevation of over 6000 feet. The surrounding region includes parts of several California and Nevada counties.
In Nevada, it includes parts of Washoe, Carson City, and Douglas counties, while in California, it includes parts of El Dorado, Nevada, and Placer counties.
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California's North Coast is in the northwest area of the state, and includes the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, and Trinity.
The beauty of its jagged coastline is rivaled only by the majesty of its coastal redwood trees.
Sandwiched between the Coast Range on the west and the Sierra Nevadas on the east, the Sacramento Valley is prime agricultural land. It is also the home of Sacramento, the state capital. This region forms the northern half of the Central Valley.
It includes the counties of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sacramento, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba, and the western portions of El Dorado and Placer counties.
The San Joaquin Valley is the southern portion of California's Central Valley, bounded on the north by the San Joaquin River Delta, on the south by the Tehachapi Range, on the east by the Sierra Nevada foothills, and on the west by the Coast Range. Most communities lie along CA-99, with Stockton at the northern end and Bakersfield at the southern.
This area is the richest agricultural region of California, especially known for nuts and stone fruits.
This area in the northeast corner of California is volcanic in origin, and is known for Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak. Mount Shasta is currently inactive, but Lassen erupted between 1914 and 1921.
The region includes the counties of Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, and Siskiyou.
The discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada launched the California Gold Rush of 1849.
The area includes the mountainous counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra and Tuolumne, and the eastern two-thirds of El Dorado and Placer counties.