TravelAwaits
Jul.11.2021
My family loves road tripping, and more often than not, we hit the road even after flying to a location, treating our flight destination as a base. During our latest road trip, we noticed that our drive to Yosemite and eventually Sequoia and Kings Canyon from Los Angeles made a perfect circle while hitting some of the most beautiful landscapes in California. Though our entire California trip was longer, this was its most spectacular segment.
You’ll experience contrasts while driving from the busiest city to the most desolate landscape in the country, from the lowest point on the continent in Death Valley to the highest peak in the contiguous United States, from sand dunes empty of vegetation to dark forests featuring some of the largest trees in the world. The following are the best stops on this road trip through the best of California.
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Glacier-point
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The Biggest and Best Boulder Blasts and Rock Rolls in Caltrans Highway History
And several other boulder rolls and trundles that keep California’s highways safe and open Caltrans
To keep its highways safe and cars from getting squashed, the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, sends crews up cliffs with big crow bars to dislodge giant boulders before they dislodge themselves, possibly onto your pickup. Guys called “geo-technical experts” figure this stuff out. Sometimes it’s just the crow-bars that peel the rocks off the cliffs, other times they drill ‘em, fill ‘em with explosives, and blast away. The best part may be getting to yell, “Fire in the hole!” at the top of your lungs. The results are spectacular trundles that sometimes end in giant
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Sacramento
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