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Central Valley
This fertile green strip in the center of California is considered by many to be the greatest garden in the world. The 400-mile-long Central Valley, wedged between the Sierra Nevada range and the coastal mountains, is filled with farms, orchards and vineyards growing everything from almonds to peaches to grapes.

You’ve likely benefited from the region even if you haven’t visited before, as it supplies as much as 45 percent of the food eaten in the United States. California’s Central Valley contains thousands of acres of land under cultivation and small farming communities that seem to have been frozen in time.

The larger cities of the Central Valley (Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield), still have a small-town friendliness that encourages visitors to slow down and find out that there’s more going on beyond the farmland. From the quiet, northernmost towns of Orland, Yuba City and Davis to Visalia, Tulare and Maricopa at the southern end of the valley, it’s easy to feel at home and see what some call “the Other California.”