Location – Directions

The beach extends from Seapoint Avenue north to Warner Avenue along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach.

Latitude/Longitude: 33.6603 / -117.9983

The par-71, 6,700 yard course is set amid canyons and wetlands, the 18-hole course offers picturesque vistas across the 35-acre reservoir, large rolling greens surrounded by wildlife and natural vegetation and scenic hills studded with granite boulders and natural waterfalls. Developed by Doug DeCinces, former California Angel third baseman, Strawberry Farms Golf Club is sure to provide golfers with the finest golf experience in Orange County.

Strawberry Farms Golf Course combines the rural beauty and tranquility of the surrounding area with the challenge of true championship golf. As the premier golf course in Southern California, Strawberry Farms is the preferred course among corporate groups and golf enthusiasts alike.

The UCI Arboretum is a 12.5-acre botanic garden and research facility located approximately one mile from the University of California, Irvine. The Arboretum features plants and communities from the California Floristic Province and also has an extensive collection of South African species.

HISTORY

In the late 1960s, less than a half-decade after the University of California, Irvine became a part of the UC system, the UCI Arboretum was used by the School of Biological Sciences as a plant growing facility for research and teaching purposes. The Arboretum is administered by and is a facility of the School of Biological Sciences.

CURRENT

Since its early days in the 1970’s, the Arboretum has shifted from its initial focus on South African plants and to include a broad diversity of habitats representative of the California Floristic Province. These include exhibits of Baja California, California Channel Islands including those near Baja California, California Native Grasslands and Wildflowers, Maritime Succulent Scrub, Mojave Desert, Southern Maritime Chaparral, Otay Mesa, and Oak Woodland.

N Campus U C, Irvine, CA
Tel: (949) 824-5833

Mason Regional Park

18712 University Drive

Irvine, CA 92612-2601

(949)923-2220 or (949)923-2223

masonpark@ocparks.com

Irvine Lanes is Southern California’s premiere bowling center, with 40 lanes,complete with automatic scoring system for our league bowlers. Designated smoking patios, beautiful bar, full arcade, and snack bar. The second floor introduces a unique concept in bowling centers featuring a number of quiet, private rooms for elegant meetings and catered special events

Huntington Beach, CA 92649-4263

Phone: (714) 846-1114

http://www.bolsachica.org Print E-mail

You might not think of Huntington Beach – Surf City USA® — as a place for serenity and solitude. But maybe that’s because many visitors haven’t discovered the pleasant anomaly of the Bolsa Chica Wetlands, the largest coastal wetlands restoration project in Southern California.

Enjoy the fruits of this effort on reopened trails that cross the Inner Bolsa Bay to the bluffs and wander the coastal dune system. Here you’ll see the dark shapes of fish move like cloud shadows through still tidal shallows and great flocks of birds rise against a distant high-rise skyline. Though surrounded on three sides by civilization and by PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) on the fourth, these precious wetlands are still home to juvenile fish and flocks of shorebirds, seabirds and migratory birds.

First and foremost, Bolsa Chica is a birder’s paradise, where you might spot (to name just a few) red-throated loons; assortments of grebes, pelicans, and cormorants; and white-faced Ibis, merlin, and osprey. In summer, you might see coyotes and peregrine falcons too.

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Phone: (949) 859-8549

http://www.donutderelicts.com

Billed as the best free car show in the world, the Saturday morning Sunrise Car Cruisers event has been a local Huntington Beach tradition for more than 20 years. Each and every Saturday, classic auto owners known as the “Donut Derelicts ” meet at the parking lot on the corner of Magnolia and Adams near Adams Avenue Donuts to share stories and admire their classic beauties. You can expect to see all your favorite classic cars including old Woodies, Backyard Rat Rods and beautiful roadsters. Chrysler concept cars and new factory releases are but a few of the surprises that await.

Santa Barbara, CA 93103-3702

Phone: (805) 962-2098

http://www.sbaacs.com More than 200 artisans set up along Cabrillo Boulevard every Sunday from 10 a.m. until dusk (also Saturdays on holiday weekends). The Arts and Crafts Show is a vaunted Santa Barbara tradition. Started in 1965, it continually offers something for everyone.

Artists must display original work, so alongside traditional seascape paintings, you might see solar-powered butterflies, headache-removing visors, and glass kaleidoscopes. Worth the trip just to people-watch. Tip: Take a break from the hullabaloo and watch the local shredders catch air at Skater’s Point, an adjacent skateboard park.

Monterey, CA 93942-0191

Phone: (831) 373-3366

http://www.montereyjazzfestival.org Whatever your tastes—from classical to Cajun—California has a music festival for you. From early spring through late fall, festivals dot the state from the desert to the ocean. The Coachella festival brings thousands of fans and more than 100 acts to the desert near Palm Springs every April for three days of outdoor rock, hip-hop, alternative, world music, and sunshine. Camping available onsite.

At the other end of the festival season is the Monterey Jazz Festival in September. For more than 50 years it’s been bringing the country’s best jazz musicians to one of the world’s most beautiful bays for three days of swing, bebop and everything in between. Where else can you enjoy a glass of wine, a little calamari, and some live Cassandra Wilson under September’s sunny skies?