California Highway One Road Trip: ULTIMATE Itinerary & Must-See Stops | San Francisco to San Diego 

This is the best video I've seen for this road trip. I showed this to my family to sell them on the trip and they loved it. You guys are amazing. Thanks so much

Flew fron London to San Francisco, then rented A Harley Davidson. Drove the PCH to LA and flew back to London. Spent 10 days in total. A life changing experience !!! Jimmy from Ireland

This family is doing it right. Taking children to parts near and far is the best gift parents can buy. More valuable than more toys that end up on the garage floor then to a donation bin.

Very nice to have a British man being the tour guide to California road-trip!!! 😊😂😆😁😄! Cheers mate!

I’d also recommend doing the portion of hwy 1 north of San Francisco to CA/OR border

Me and my girlfriend are planning the same trip 😍 start from San Francisco - San Diego - Phoenix and then up for the canyons to las vegas. There we take the airplane ✈️ for nyc after a few days then we take the plane again to return in switzerland😁 We are so exited to make this experience and let our dreams come true together ❤️

Great video- thanks. I’m from Germany and made nearly the same trip in October 2019. One of my most impressive experiences. Greetings to California 👍

Just did the California Coast and Big Sur is breath taking 💕

California Road trip 👍👍👍👍pacific grove is also very interesting and 17 mile road 😻😻😻

California is endlessly interesting. Everyone should have a long visit.

I grew up in Silicon Valley and this video made me miss it soo much! I remember going to so many of these places as a kid. Man I miss Cali 🌴

I'm a native Californian who has lived all his life on or no more than a few miles away from CA route 1. In my home town, it was called by the old Spanish name, El Camino Real. I loved taking this trip with you and your family!! You even stayed at my favorite Cambria get-away. nice. I see this video is a few years old, so i hope you bring your kids back for a repeat adventure. Maybe you could go south-to-north this time. Cheers from LA, CA.

San Diego to San Francisco was one of my first ever road trips with just me and my friends my senior year of high school. As a teenager I thought it was the craziest thing, such a beautiful scenery as well but man oh man we where so ignorant to the fact how much driving was needed it was hilarious. We where just teenagers so stopping to spend the night at a hotel wasn’t in our budget lol. We got to San Francisco at 3am in the morning god it was so funny. But the trip is one I’ll never forget still my favorite to this day.

Amazing trip! I'm going in 3 weeks! Starting in San Diego & heading up the coast to San Fran.

1:43 - How cool is that piece of cuteness holding her sunglasses?

I love how you give lots of information on every place u passed by or stopped. Your kids are so adorable. Thanks for sharing.

I completed the same road trip exactly the same way as described in this video on a Mustang with my family. Me and my whole family would like to thank you for helping us complete the most memorable road trip of our life :)

I miss California...big time!

Thank you for posting this. My wife and me were able to take this trip in 1972. Took hours of 8mm movies and view them from time to time. Wonderful adventure, it was. Spent a few days at Disneyland before going to San Diego. From there, we drove to Las Vegas for a few days before flying home.

Thanks, we are doing this in the opposite direction in April, and your advice has been very helpful!

One of the best videos I have come across!God bless your beautiful family!

The beauty and sense of freedom made me cry.! Thank you so much for the great video and tips. x

Highway 1! Classic road trip. Beautiful cities to start and end and plenty of magic in between

Just the right video I've been searching for on RU-vid! Thanks for taking the time to make such an amazingly, thorough trip guide 😊

I had been there till Monterey bay in 2019... Breathtaking

Nice video, I suppose it takes a family of foreigners to remind us of the vast beauty of the entire USA. I'm jealous I didn't do this when my kids were young. Nice job mom and dad.

I did the opposite drive from San Diego to Eureka. The highlights were definitely Big Surr, Hearst Castle, Fisherman's wharf/Alcatraz, Pebble Beach, Red Wood National forest and thousands of great views. Fantastic video. You have a beautiful family my friend.

Coastal views in California never disappoint anyone

I’m from Huntington beach and me and my siblings and parents are planning to do this amazing road trip during spring break

You guys do such a great at explaining everything on the trip! I love it! You guys did California Coast like a local, Good Job!

Very beautiful: thanks for loading from Switzerland!

Well done Reilly family! David, you deserve your own Travel Road Show on any medium you may fancy!! I felt like I was along for the journey all the way. We want more!!! - John

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND STUNNING VIDEO REILLY FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt like I there with you guys ☺☺☺. I'm definitely gonna do this road trip with my wife. Thanks for the great idea.

Nice and awesome family roadtrip history with two kids.... Thanks for sharing your video

After Monterey, you must do 17 Mile Drive and Point Lobos State Reserve.

My favourite road trip in the world! We're going back for our 3rd time with 2 little ones in April, really enjoyed watching this, hoping you went back to spend longer at each place, so much to see!! X

Great video. Love the California coast! 😍

That is so Beautiful.

This is fantastic!! The kids are darling and well-behaved!!

This is abso the best road trip of the PCH and with kids also.A convert the PCH south bound and the Beach Boys playing loud an strong .I've done this 2 northbound and 3 southbound and one southbound on a bike in october 12 daysfrom SF to Malibu.These folks had a really great trip. Every mile of this hiway is a spectacle. If planning to do this trip do your homework, and no rushing on the drive, stop often

Myself and a friend just did this trip, but we started in Long Beach through the coast up to San Diego then the coast back down to San Francisco beautiful CaLifornia coast line. it was the best road trip ever so so beautiful amazing. So much to see. We ended our trip in Napa Valley wine country. California knows how to party that's for sure. Recommend it to everyone if u never done the drive.

Planning a trip out in June and this is exactly what we wanted to do..great job and thanks !

Excellent! As an expat, I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Also, much respect for including Dana Point.

Absolutely brilliant filming and commentary of a fantastic place to visit that is definitely on my itinerary for the future.

Wonderful video! My family is planning a trip in March and you've helped us a lot!

Thanks for the video, I am planning this same trip and your video was really helpfull! Cheers!

Thank you so much for this video! it's been so incredibly helpful. I'll be doing this trip in a few days with my husband and 3 year old son. We're so excited!

Awesome, thank you for sharing your experience. We are looking forward to doing this trip this summer.

Great video & great trip :D

Wow it's excruciating like it

Great video guys, love all the info and tips along the way! We've done lots of similar trips in and around CA but never actually driven all the way from SF to SD. Loved it!

I just finish my eastcoast tour. In June 19 I finally do the pacific coast tour . Can’t wait . Greetings from Germany

Pretty awesome road trip video. I love travel a lot. So this video help me more. And "Hi" For those two little angels

Interesting video I will make trip vacation to SF from Lima Thanks

STUNNNNNNINNNG!! i’m so excited for my trip in march!! ❤️

My family did this trip mid July this year . It was amazing thanks for inputs on hotels it did help lot.. Many thanks

loved it. We're doing a rd trip from NC all the way to Cali in October. And we're gonna finish it this way. Thanks for the Video. so great.

May Almighty God Always Bless All of You with Joy Happiness and Togetherness 🌹💕💕🌷🌷

Thanks for all the great ideas for what looked like a wonderful trip 😊

Great Video - Fun, fun FUN! Thank so much for sharing. You rekindled my happy thoughts of my many great memories of Highway 1 and my trips north and south. Thanks for posting!

Beautiful trip 👍 I liked !!!

Solvang is a fun little place. We were supposed to stay a day and go back home- we ended up staying over night😂 Nice video btw

Loving your work and channel Dave!

RIP jack O’Neil the guy invented the swimsuit what a legend greetings from Santa Cruz I’m a local here great to see that you like it!

love this you so have inspired to hire a car when i come to usa

Just booked flights to do this on the spur of the moment - leaving in 3 days, doing it on a Harley Davidson

I've done this !!.....Simply Amazing !!

Quite an amazing trip and helpful tips. We plan to follow it next time when we travel to CA again. Thanks.

I visited back in 2013. Hearst Castle requires quite a bit of paperwork to get in.

You have beautiful children....god bless

Thanks for sharing! There are so many beautiful Californian road trip videos on here but none as helpful as this. So useful!

Well done! Wonderful reportage!

I love Oceanside. My mom's parents live there.

Skipped over Half Moon Bay:( favorite beaches there!

Excellent adventure- thank you for sharing and it’s so inspirational.

best tour of califonia thank you

Very Narrative...I am planning a trip LA-SF-LA in summer. I just wanted to know how did you manage record your trip so well.

Fantastic video, well done! I'm a California native and I've driven every drivable inch of the coast from Astoria, Oregon to San Diego, CA. I wish you would have shown old HWY 101 from Carlsbad to Del Mar. It is the last stretch of "old" California beach town left. I prefer the Central Coast near Morro Bay but the weather along old HWY 101from Carlsbad to Del Mar is probably the best in the world and in the summer the water is the warmest on the California coast. Again, well done!

This is excellent! Great info and narration. Can't wait to take this trip one day.

Great vlog dude. A trip that’s on my bucket list 📸👍

I live in Carlsbad, a wee bit north of San Diego and we vacation in Oregon every year.. we take our dogs and drive up, we've always taken the quicker(less interesting) inland route but after watching this I think it'd be totally worth it to shave a day off Oregon to do this drive. :-) Great video!

Full Sail University is in California folks and SNHU is my college

what a great video you guys put together

I’ve literally just got back from doing this but started at the top of CA1 in Leggett doing the entire length rather than just the southern section Absolutely awesome

great video folks. my ex and I made a lot of the same stops. If you ever do it again, Morro Bay and Carmel should be on your list.

Sounds just like a real travel show. Such an awesome thumbnail. We're heading out west soon and I never knew about paying the bridge toll online. I'd really appreciate it if you could check out some of my journeys as well!

Beautiful video with great kids!

i did that same trip in 1972 fantastic views from the highway

Thanks for giving ralphs a shoutout lol

Excellent video but I also recommend the 17-mile drive in Monterrey.

Wow! Excellent video! I love the details. So many interesting facts and tips that I learned- despite the fact I've done that drive over 5 time. We are now looking into booking the cabin you stayed in. Thanks!

A spectacular video! Thank you! I look forward to watching many more of your videos!

Wow, I can actually smell your video all the way in Florida. California and Florida. States in the past everyone wanted to live in. We all thought, if I can just get my furniture across the state line. Wow. California, I use to say it was around to make Florida #49. But alas, Oregon and Washington proved the West Coast is far superior in falling cities. Good luck.

Totally awesome trip, we did half of this a few days ago, a MUST also that you passed up in big sur area, was Mcway waterfall, this is the only waterfall that I know of, I’m sure there are more, that falls directly into the ocean, we took awesome pictures there. It’s easy to get to , just a short hike. However, it can only be viewed from the trail , as it is a big fine to hike down to this beautiful spot, I believe there trying to preserve it , beautiful photo op tho 👍🏻

Thank you so much for this great video. 👍🏼Definitely I’m doing this road trip with my husband in March 2019.

I live in the bay and i drive down the 1 a lot but never all the way to san diego this seems like fun ^_^ i would start in pacifica or half moon bay just because the view of the coast is beautiful

1:46 "Enjoying the views you've been looking at online" You got me bro XDD

Awesome, thank you so much, very helpful for us

Very informative video! Thanks.

Things you missed along the way, the wonderful world and sites of the Southern San Francisco Peninsula, San Bruno and Daly City are cute but go past staying off the 101 till you've gone through Cities like San Mateo, Foster City, Santa Clara, and the other little Cities, I say little due to a few like Foster City aren't anything more then 15-25 blocks square wide, but Silicon Valley's biggest Tech Corporations are all along 1 main Blvd. That goes through them. At the end of the peninsula another Blvd starts and follows along next to the 101, but this drive starting in S. Of Market goes past the New Golden State Warriors Arena, The Cow Palace, on past the San Bruno Natural Gas Explosion site, in San Mateo there are like 5 or 6 malls, for an area that's 30 blocks by 25 blocks wide, next on to Foster City, not seeming intristing it has one of the most important places on the planet for any gamer, Sony's N. America Headquarters and Sony's Playstation World Headquarters are located in this seemingly tiny place but location is everything, known as Sony Foster City Campus, like Google down the street and Oracle's famous Emerald City Campus a few miles away, Sony expanded this campus over the last 7 years, it houses many software and game company's on its grounds along with offering classes that can become paid internships with Sony, the campus has free tour and exclusive things to see for the gamer in all of us, from Sony south you will pass tech, sortware, game, and electronic company's all the way through to the split and then on to San Jose. But let continue from south of Sony, next site to see is Cisco systems, this Cysco site is the Original Cysco systems building and house the entire West Coast, Midwest & part of East Coasts internet Servers, this building is know as the Core to hard core internet surfers, they give small tours of the Server Rooms which are actually whole floors, 7 of them to be exact. From Cysco south you will pass more tech company's until just past the road to Hayward Bridge, just a few block south, of that road, all the businesses and buildings seem to disappear and the view to the west reviles why, you'll star in awh as you gaze your eyes on what architects, company's and people in general call the most beautiful business complex in America and quit possibly in the world, it's a collection of towers, 6 or 7 I think, beautiful Dark Green tinted windows, Gold played trimming every where you've found the Emerald City, Oracle's humongous Complex, it's absolutely astonding and definitely a place to see, just near the end of its property is the the road to the west, taking this road takes you to San Jose, the City us Cultual beauty due to all the races that live in the silicon valley, brought here by silicon valley companys, along this road you will pass Activision/Blizzard corp Headquarters, the former Sun Systems offices, now Cysco gaming servers building, EA games Headquarters, IBM Headquarters, Apple's Headquarters, RU-vid's World Headquarters, Twitters Headquartes, MySpace's Headquarters, Sega America's Headquarters, Take2 Ent. Headquarters, Rockstar Games Headquarters, and many many more, just past the 101's on ramp to head south us the Great Mall of The Bay, the Second largest Mall in America, after that head back towards the T intersection the brought you south, and go back south on it, it will wind you through the hills of Redwood City before spitting you out in Santa Cruz, now the rest of you trip was perfect except 1 more thing, when at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk make sure you go to the Salt water taffy candy store, it's almost 100yrs old and most recent history is they created Chocolate covered Bacon, yummy.