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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The aquarium in Monterey is amazing, but very crowded and pretty expensive.  I think it was almost $250 for our family of four.  Not an obscene amount, but coupled with the crowds, made it not a great experience.  There are Whale watching trips out of Monterey, which are fun.  Big Sur is amazing too.  You can see a lot from your car, but I recommend doing some short hikes.  Inland from Monterey is Pinnacles NP, which is supposed to be great.  We haven’t been yet, but it’s on our list.  We have family in Monterey and go out there often.

It sounds like you have no interest in SF, but if you kids haven’t been, you have to at least check out Golden Gate Bridge.  There are multiple parks on both sides of the bridge.  Our favorite is on the NW side of the bridge from the Battery, which has great bridge and city views.  Also, we love SF.  It’s a fantastic city, whose demise has been extremely exaggerated by the media.  It’s a big city, so you do have to play it smart, but it’s not the wasteland that’s often reported.[/quote]

We did Pinnacles last summer and it's really amazing! We saw 8 condors flying around. I was hoping to see one, but to see that many was just incredible. Absolutely made the trip worth it. There's nothing fancy about Pinnacles and there's not much to do besides hike. The Talus caves were amazingly cool to hike through, especially since we were there when it was pushing 100! We had to stay at a motel in King City (but CalFire was staying there, too;  they were all so sweet with my son and let him check out some of the equipment and gave him a bunch of CalFire stickers) which was anything but the luxury experience. but, CalFire and a pool, so we made do.

Our trip was SF-Pinnacles-Monterey-SF. We stopped at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park just outside of Santa Cruz on the drive back from Monterey. Worked well with our schedule and scratched the "I need to see redwoods" itch.[/quote]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but does anyone know what age would be good for Pinnacles? I’m the pp who lives on the peninsula but I’m not sure my 8 year old would be up for the hiking. We’ve done the elephant seals at Ano Nuevo and she did okay, but doesn’t love hiking. Henry Cowell Redwoods state park is a good rec - we camped there last year with a school group. Woodside California also has a bunch of trails / redwoods near by and also is a kind of fun “old west” looking town. [/quote]

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