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 20 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA Valley to Coast Highway is proposed from Visalia in central California to Paso Robles on the State Road which forms part of the Camino Real. Since the Yosemite was opened to motor tourists in the summer of 1913, the counties neighbouring it have vied in offering good roads allurements tc those Yosemite-bound. The route via Coulter- vine is the one now most used. Another route is from Stockton over the Big Oak Flat Road through Tuolumne County to Yosemite. The Al- pine Highway will make possible a tour from Yo- semite Park to Lake Tahoe. At Sacramento the boulevard which joins the capital to San Francisco merges into the Wish- bone Route, which continues through Placerville to Lake Tahoe. From Truckee it goes west again by way of Donner Lake, Dutch Flat, Au- burn (we are on the immigrant trail here), and thus back to Sacramento. Out of San Francisco and Oakland there are good roads through San Mateo and Alameda Counties to Santa Cruz and Monterey, and toward Stockton and the Yosemite. Northerly motor-ways wind far into Marin County, follow the coast to Eu- reka, or reach the upper part of the State by the Overland Highway. Through the ever-living trees of Mendocino County and the sugar-pines of the Siskiyous there are excellent roads. From Eureka one may