California Central Valley is the breadbasket of the nation. It is the top agriculture area in the State of California, shipping produce throughout the U.S. and the world. Drive trips are serene and starkly beautiful, and there are many places to stop and purchase food right out of the roadside stands. Top crops are milk, cheese, ice cream, nuts (almonds), grapes, tomatoes, and much more. Things to do include wetlands bird watching, hunting, lake entertainment,  sports and plenty of old-fashioned fairs.
 

Adela Alder Springs Algoso Alpaugh Amsterdam Antioch Arbor Arbuckle Arvin Atwater Avenal Bakersfield Ballico Batavia Benito Bethel Island Biggs Boyers Landing Brentwood Bret Harte Brooks Browns Valley Bucktown Butte City Buttonwillow Byron Bystrom Calders Corner Calico California Hot Springs Capay Caruthers Cawelo Ceres Chowchilla Citrona Clampett Clarksburg Clements Clovis Coalinga Colusa Coniston Conner Corcoran Cortez Cottonwood Courtland Cutler Dairyland Davis Delano Delhi Del Rio Denair Dinuba Discovery Bay Dixon Dos Palos Ducor Dunnigan Eagle Tree Earlimart Easton Elk Creek Elmira Empire Escalon Esparto Exeter Fairfield Farmersville Farmington Fertile Acres Firebaugh Ford City Fowler Frazier Park Fraziers Landing French Camp Fresno Friant Fuller Acres Galt Glennville Goshen Grapevine Greenfield Gridley Keene Gorman Guinda Gustine Hamilton City Hanford Hilmar Hollis Hopeton Hood Hughson Huron Iowa City Isleton Italian Swiss Colony Ivanhoe Jasmin Josephine Kerman Kettleman City Keyes Kingsburg Knights Ferry Knights Landing Knightson Lamont Lathrop Laton La Vina Lebec Le Grand Lemon Cove Lemoore Liberty Farms Lindcove Linden Lindsay Live Oak

Livingston Locke Lockeford Lodi London Lonsmith Los Banos Lost Hills Madera Madison Maine Prarie Manteca Maricopa Marysville Maxwell McFarland McKittrick Mello Mendota Merced Meridian Merritt Midoil Millux Modesto Morada Myricks Corner Newman Norton Oakdale Oakley Oildale Olivehurst Orange Cove Orland Orosi Paintersville Parlier Patterson Pearson Pennington Pentland Pittsburg Pixley Plainfield Plainsburg Plainview Planada Poplar Porterville Prather Princeton Progress Prospero Raisin City Ramirez Reedley Richgrove Rio Bravo Rio Vista Riperdan Ripon Riverbank Rosedale Ryde Salida Sand Hill San Emidio Sanger San Joaquin Saxon Selma Shafter Shackelford Slater Snelling Sorroca Springville Stegeman Stockton Stratford Strathmore Sugarfield Suisun City Sunnyslope Sutter Sycamore Swingle Taft Tambo Tancred Tehachapi Terra Bella Thornton Tierra Buena Tipton Tracy Tulare Turlock Tyndall Landing Vacaville Vernalis Visalia Vorden Walnut Grove Wasco Waterford Weedpatch Westley Wheatland Wheeler Ridge Williams Willows Winters Winton Woodlake Woodland Woodville Yolano Yolo Yuba City Zentner

PARKS, FORESTS

Caswell Memorial State Park
Great Valley Grasslands State Park
Little Panoche Wildlife Area
Kern National Wildlife Reserve
Tule Elk State Reserve
Fort Tejon State Historic Park
Red Rock Canyon State Park
Col Allensworth State Historic Park
Millerton Lake State Reserve Area
Gray Lodge Wildlife Area
Sutter National Wildlife Reserve
Sacramento National Wildlife Reserve
Los Padres National Forest
Mendocino National Forest
Tahoe National Forest
Stanislaus River Parks
Joe Domecq Wildlife Area
Kaweah Oaks Preserve
Oak Flat Lookout
Mt Piņos Observation Point
Kern County Museum
Cosumnes River Preserve
Grizzly Island Wildlife Area
Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area
Lake Solano County Park
 

MILITARY

Travis Air Force Base
Lemoore Naval Air Station
Beale Air Force Base
 

AIRPORTS
Sacramento International Airport

RIVERS

Merced River
Los Banos Creek Reservoir
San Luis Reservoir
San Joaquin River
San Joaquin River