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Pebble Beach is famous for its golf. The town has seven public and private courses, including Spanish Bay, Spyglass Hill, Poppy Hills, and the eponymous Pebble Beach Golf Links. The AT&T Pro-Am is held here every year in February. Another famous Pebble Beach attraction is the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance auto show. It focuses on classic cars, but manufacturers have lately begun introducing new luxury car models there.

The Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the U.S. state of California. It is home to many of California's most productive agricultural efforts. The California Central Valley stretches nearly 400 miles (600 km) north to south, its northern half referred to as the Sacramento Valley and its southern half as the San Joaquin Valley. The two halves are joined by the shared delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, a large expanse of interconnected canals, streambeds, sloughs, marshes and peat islands.

About 6.5 million people live in the Central Valley today and it is the fastest growing region in California. There are 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in the central valley. Tthey are listed by (MSA) population: Sacramento Metropolitan Area (2,042,283), Fresno Metropolitan Area (1,002,284), Bakersfield Metropolitan Area (756,825), Stockton Metropolitan Area (664,116), Modesto Metropolitan (505,505), Visalia Metropolitan Area (410,874), Merced Metropolitan Area (241,706), Chico Metropolitan Area (214,185), Redding Metropolitan Area (179,904), Yuba City Metropolitan Area (156,029)

Recreation - Popular recreation activities in the Desert Region include: swimming, boating, fishing, horseback riding, climbing, hiking, road biking, mountain biking, skiing, picnicking, and camping.
The Desert Region lies in southeast California, stretching from Death Valley National Park south to the Mexican border. The region includes the communities of Barstow, Needles, Palm Springs, Blythe and El Centro. The main highways accessing this region are Interstates 15, 40, 10 and 8.The desert region's climate experiences typically clear days with with low precipitation and humidity. Temperatures are most comfortable in the spring and fall, with an average high/low of 85 and 50 degrees respectively. Winter brings cooler days, around 60 degrees, and freezing nights. It occasionally snows at the higher elevations. Summers are very hot, over 100 degrees during the day and not cooling much below 75 degrees until the early hours of the morning. Bring sunblock, sunglasses and a hat with a brim.

Gold Country (also Mother Lode Country) is a region in the central-and-north-eastern part of the U.S. state of California. It is famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines which attracted waves of immigrants, known as the 49ers, during the 1849 California Gold Rush.

The Gold Country is generally considered to lie along the route of California State Highway 49, stretching from Mariposa County in the south, to Sierra County in the north. It includes parts of ten California counties: Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra and Tuolumne.

The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "Snowy Range") is a mountain range that is almost entirely in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of California. The range is also known as The Sierra and The Sierras. The Sierra Nevada stretches 400 miles (650 km), from Fredonyer Pass in the north to Tehachapi Pass in the south. It is bounded on the west by California's Central Valley, and on the east by the Great Basin.

There are several notable geographical features in the Sierra Nevada: Lake Tahoe is a large, clear freshwater lake in the northern Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 m) and an area of 191 square miles (489 km²), Hetch Hetchy Valley, Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, Tehipite Valley and Kern Canyon are the most well-known of many beautiful, glacially-scoured canyons on the west side of the Sierra, Yosemite National Park is filled with stunning features, such as waterfalls and granite domes, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m), is the highest point in the contiguous United States. Groves of Giant Sequoias Sequoiadendron giganteum occur along a narrow band of altitude on the western side of the Sierra Nevada. Giant Sequoias are the most massive trees in the world.

The Inland Empire refers to the region in Southern California located in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in the United States. The Inland Empire is centered on the oldest cities in the region: Ontario, San Bernardino, and Riverside. These cities were established at about the end of the 19th century and were major centers of agriculture including citrus, dairy, and wine-making. The name "Inland Empire" was first used in the 1950s to distinguish the region from the communities of the Los Angeles area, and Los Angeles itself.

There are sub-divisions West and East Los Angeles.

West Los Angeles (also known as West L.A. or the Westside) is generally considered to be the portion of Los Angeles, California that lies east of the Pacific Ocean, west of La Cienega Boulevard (or, by some, Fairfax or even La Brea Avenue), south of the Santa Monica Mountains, and north of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). (Compare to East Los Angeles or South Los Angeles.) It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the northwest by Ventura County, on the north by the San Fernando Valley, on the east by Hollywood district and the Wilshire area, and on the south by South Los Angeles and South Bay

Eastern Los Angeles (also known as East L.A. or the Eastside) is the portion of the City of Los Angeles, California that lies east of the Los Angeles River and Downtown Los Angeles, west of the San Gabriel Valley and the unincorporated area of East Los Angeles, California and City Terrace, California, south of the Crescenta Valley, and north of Vernon, California and City of Commerce, California.

Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana. Its population of 3,083,894 (as of July 1, 2006) is larger than that of 20 states. It is the second most populous county in the state of California, and the fifth most populous in the United States. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Los Angeles County, on the northeast by San Bernardino County, on the east by Riverside County, and on the south by San Diego County.

The county is known for its wealth and political conservatism, although it is in reality neither as uniformly wealthy nor as homogeneously conservative as its stereotypical image suggests. It is also famous as a tourist destination, as the county is home to such attractions as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, as well as sandy beaches for swimming and surfing, yacht harbors for sailing and pleasure boating

The San Diego/Tijuana Region typically refers to San Diego, Chula Vista and Imperial Beach in the United States and Tijuana and Tecate in Mexico. The area constitutes a continuous metropolitan region with development on both sides of the border. The area is economically integrated, and with the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the area has seen more rapid economic development.

Collections of VR panoramas of the American cities outside the state of California

Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The population was 44,265 at the 2000 census. Like neighboring Salinas in Monterey County, Watsonville produces a variety of fruits and vegetables, primarily strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and table mushrooms. Martinelli's, a producer of sparkling apple cider, is headquartered there, as are Driscoll's Strawberries, Sweet Darling Strawberries and West Marine.

Fremont is a city in California, USA that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Irvington, Mission San Jose, Niles, and Warm Springs. The area now comprising Fremont and the adjoining cities of Newark (now an enclave within Fremont) and Union City was formerly known as Washington Township. Fremont is located in the southeast area of the San Francisco Bay Area in Alameda County. The city is named after John Charles Frémont, "the Great Pathfinder."
Home to 210,158 people as of a 2005 estimate, Fremont is the fourth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Shasta Cascade region of California is located in the northeastern and north-central sections of the state bordering Oregon and Nevada, north of the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The area is centered on Mount Shasta in the California Cascade Range, near the Trinity Alps. Mount Shasta is a dormant volcano; nearby Lassen Peak is recently active.