Foto: Getty Images
The New York Times has released its annual Best Places to Visit list and two Bay Area locations are featured.
The 2022 edition of the list is called "52 Places for a Changed World" and "highlights places around the globe where travelers can be part of the solution."
The first to make it into the list at No. 18, is San Francisco's Great Highway. The Times' Lauren Sloss wrote the following about the highway:
"The throughway became a destination, a beach-front promenade flanking the raw expanse of Ocean Beach, and a community center — friends met up for walks, local children learned to ride bikes, and everything “popped up,” from street art to protests and trick-or-treating... It’s also a telling microcosm of the ways in which our cities, and our values, shifted during the pandemic."
The second is Santa Cruz County, listed at No. 44 for its handling of the devastating wildfires across California. Here's what AnneLise Sorensen wrote about the Big Basin Redwoods and Henry Cowell Redwoods State Parks in the Santa Cruz Mountains:
"While Henry Cowell is open, as is a small section of Big Basin, with more ambitious rebuilding planned, the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County is developing new hiking trails, including in the 8,500-acre San Vicente Redwoods. On the North Coast, the Cotoni-Coast Dairies, a recent addition to the California Coastal National Monument, is slated to open within the next year, with nearly 6,000 acres of coastal terraces, redwood forests and sweeping views of the Pacific. The area’s designation as a national monument will help protect its rich ecology and cultural history, including ancestral sites of the Indigenous Cotoni people."
To read the New York Times' full list, click here.