Benbow Historic Inn is a comfortable oaisis amid northern California's redwoods

[Tripatini]

Wherever you decide to stay, a drive along the northern California coast is visually breathtaking, and if you find a comfortable inn to lay your head, so much the better. The Benbow Historic Inn is just such a place. It is also as interesting an auberge as you will find anywhere along the great and scenic Redwood Highway.

We reached exit 636 on highway 101 at 3 pm - and at the onset of a downpour. The inn appeared within seconds of leaving the freeway. It was a welcome sight, sitting on a hillside surrounded by a crown of the deepest green trees. If we didn’t know we were in California, we could be convinced we were in England. First open to the public in July 1926, this historic Tudor style hotel evokes old world charm inside and out.

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