Road trips from SoCal: California

There's nothing quite as all-American as a road trip, especially in the West, where a wealth of culture, natural beauty and excitement unfolds before you. Crescent City awaits in Northern California. General Grant Tree beckons from the Sierra Nevada.

To help you tap the region's cache of getaways, we've compiled this list of road trip spots in California. For a list of out-of-state destinations, click here. Browse by region on our road trips page.

Distance to each destination is one-way from downtown Los Angeles. Cost of gas is for a round trip. Gas expenses were calculated using $2.756 for a gallon of gas, the average cost of gas in California as of Jun. 2, 2009, and a mileage of 20.8 miles per gallon, the average performance of new 2008 model cars and trucks.