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Take a trip up a beautiful canyon in the desert east of San Diego.
For the text and description of this trip, go to http://www.weekenddriver.com/roadtrip/grapeF/grape.html
Locations: 5
Created by weekenddriver on 4/7/2009
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Here's a great drive through the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, in the extreme eastern edge of San Diego County. It's a fairly easy drive but will give that four-wheel- or all-wheel-drive system some good exercise.
Travel through Canyon Sin Nombre, a twisting drive through nine million years of evolution and the Elsinore Fault, then back up Vallecito Creek, then rejoin county highway S-2 near the settlement of Canebrake. It's just 12 miles through the wilderness, but driving on sand and stopping to take in the view took me a couple of hours.
NOTE: The GPS route gives you only target points; follow the trails at all times. Check with the Park Ranger before attempting off-road travel. 4x4 vehicle required for off-road travel. Canyon can be narrow; wide vehicles may not fit.
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Spectacular drive through Split Mountain is like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. For the story from Weekend Driver on this route, be sure to go to http://www.weekenddriver.com/roadtrip/fishcreek/fishstory.html
Locations: 6
Created by weekenddriver on 4/16/2009
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A trip to the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs and Font's Point. 4x4 vehicle recommended on sandy road to Font's Point. Read the story at the Weekend Driver website.
Locations: 9
Created by weekenddriver on 10/19/2008
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See the original desert highway, the Plank Road, and remnants of U.S. 80 through the Colorado Desert in Imperial County, Calif. Read the full story. Locations: 12
Created by weekenddriver on 2/16/2009
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GPS coordinates for the Green Mountains back country tour through northeastern San Diego county. Travel through Escondido to Mesa Grande and Black Canyon Road, a scenic dirt road, to Ramona.
Locations: 14
Created by weekenddriver on 4/16/2009
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Take a fun drive off road through the mountains around Warner Springs, Calif., near San Diego, Calif. It includes some rocks, plenty of beautiful scenery and surprises. Read the full story. Locations: 7
Created by weekenddriver on 3/23/2008
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Explore the western end of the famous Rim of the World Highway and Lake Arrowhead. Read the full story. Locations: 12
Created by weekenddriver on 11/22/2008
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Take a drive from Imperial Beach, up the Silver Strand and Coronado, to downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. Read the full story. Locations: 20
Created by weekenddriver on 6/13/2008
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Directions for the San Diego Union-Tribune Weekend Driver column for October 2008. For the description of this drive, go to the Weekend Driver website. Locations: 20
Created by weekenddriver on 8/31/2008
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Drive the Highland Valley Road twists through San Diego, Ramona and Poway. Read the story. Locations: 7
Created by weekenddriver on 2/19/2009
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Take a fun tour to Julian, CA from central San Diego, up through Ramona and Santa Ysabel, then back through the beautiful Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. This tour accompanies the Weekend Driver column for November 2009. More at www.weekenddriver.com.
Locations: 14
Created by weekenddriver on 10/24/2009
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Called "one of the three great roads in America," old U.S. 101, the coast highway in San Diego county, is a spectacular, ocean view cruise. Tour starts in Oceanside and runs south to Torrey Pines, so drivers are always on the ocean side of the street. Read the full story. Locations: 25
Created by weekenddriver on 2/17/2008
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Join San Diego's Weekend Driver, Jack Brandais, on a tour of old U.S. 80 from Descanso to the Desert View Tower in eastern San Diego County. A Route 66-vintage road that in many ways is more fun than driving Route 66.
US 80 was a true transcontinental highway, unlike US 66. It ran from San Diego on the Pacific to Savannah on the Atlantic.
Enjoy this drive through the mountains and high desert of San Diego county.
Read more on Old Highway 80. Locations: 21
Created by weekenddriver on 2/17/2008
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Take a twisting, curving road thought the mountains along the border between San Diego and Riverside counties. Read the full story. Locations: 15
Created by weekenddriver on 5/18/2008
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