Wine Country and Redwoods Escape
- Wine Country and Sequoia Redwoods Tour

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Strict Quality Control Our quality control supervises three sources that you, interact with during your tour from San Francisco: 1) Our reservations staff is diverse and we count in any given day with people who speak 5-6 different languages; they have all been on our tours to experience them first hand and we always have a manager on duty 7 days a week. 2) Our tour guides are extensively trained on both safety driving techniques and are evaluated and financially compensated based on the customer tour reviews. 3) Our vehicles are frequently inspected by our drivers, mechanics and the California Highway Patrol to ensure they are in top mechanical shape. San Francisco based Only locals know the best San Francisco tour possible. Our office is located at 690 Fifth St, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94107. Our local phone number is 1-415-357-0700 and our toll free number is 1-866-231-3752. When you call any of these numbers you will be talking with someone that is located in San Francisco, who can tell you if the weather is sunny or foggy or if there is a special event in San Francisco that may be of interest to you. There is no comparison we are always there for you. Buy Direct we directly operate the majority of our tours this means we have vehicles and tour guides who are our employees. Being the direct source enables us to provide the highest quality control possible. We conduct customer satisfaction surveys daily and our guides are financially compensated based on your feedback after the tour. On average our tours have over a 90% customer satisfaction rating! The few tours that we subcontract, we only use partners with whom we have established relationships for many years and trust the safety and quality of their service. Vehicle Safety Inspection Safety is paramount in our industry and one of the biggest safety components in the tours we provide are our vehicles. Extranomical's fleet includes vans and mini-buses. Our vehicles are inspected constantly; first in the morning when the tour guide begins his/her day; second throughout the day the tour guide is verifying fluid levels, tire pressure and the general operation of the vehicle is monitored throughout the day. The vehicles are also inspected regularly (at least every 10,000) miles by our vehicle maintenance staff and also by independent certified mechanics during their routine maintenance. If that were not all, we also go through a thorough inspection performed by the California Highway Patrol once a year. Experienced Company Extranomical was founded in 2002 and is one of the fastest growing tour companies in San Francisco currently performing more tours than any other company to Yosemite National Park and Muir Woods & Wine Country combination tour. We are also pioneers in offering tours to San Francisco's Best Restaurants with our "Best San Francisco Taco Tour, Sushi Tour and Pizza Tour. 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Wine Country and Redwoods Tour Highlights Complimentary Hotel Pick Up Golden Gate Bridge Muir Woods National Monument Winery Stops: 3 Wine Tasting Fees: Included Tour Operator: Extranomical (Daily) Minibus or 13-passenger Van Buy Direct San Francisco based Convenient Hours Strict Quality Control Vehicle Safety Inspection Tour Guide Training Experienced Company Fully Licensed and Insured Complementary SF Locals Travel Guide

Wine Country & Redwoods Tour Price List

Wine Country & Redwoods Tour Description

Wine Country & Redwoods One-Day Tour. Our Wine Country & Muir Woods tour  combines a walk through the tallest trees in the world with a relaxing afternoon at three wineries in California’s World Famous Wine Country, which is only about an hour away from San Francisco. First, we take a little detour over the Marin Headlands into Muir Woods, a beautiful valley filled with Coastal Redwood Sequoia trees. You’ll spend about an hour there and then come back over the headlands and head north again. You’ll get a little Wine Country history on the way to the historic Sonoma Valley and Carneros Regions, spending 30 minutes to an hour at each winery, with free tastings, and usually five delicious wines at each one. No worries, we’ll make sure you have time for a good lunch! On the way back, we’ll also drive through the little town of Sausalito, home of thousands of sailboats, hundreds of floating houses, and a beautiful view of the Bay and San Francisco. Finally, we’ll make our way back to the Golden Gate and stop to take pictures high above the Bridge, if we didn’t do it in the morning. This tour is ideal for both the wine tasting novice and the more experienced connoisseur with a rack full of fine wines, who can appreciate the wonders of nature in the Redwood forest.

Wineries - Through years of experience, and have compiled mountains of research and narrowed down the pool of potential winery stops to a short list that not only represents the best that California Wine Country has to offer, but also keeps costs down and allows us to provide free tasting samples at each of our stops on this tour. We like to cover the range in size from small and homey, to large and grand, always with an eye for visual appeal, friendly atmosphere, good presentation, and good value. Some wineries also have occasional private events which prevent us from visiting them, or we might have too many vans in the field to invade one small winery at once, so our drivers make the final arrangements on the morning of the tour, sometimes after talking to the group during pickups. Therefore, we do not always go to the same ones on every tour, but choose three from the following list of quality wineries that we can count on.

Click here for a list of the wineries that we visit on this tour

Wine Country & Redwoods Tour Itinerary

Wine Country & Redwoods One Day Tour - Times Approximate
(15 Passenger Van or mini-bus)

Expected Days of Operation:
January 1 - December 31            DAILY

Coastal Redwood Sequoias. Giant Evergreens were “discovered” by the Spaniards, along with the rest of the land known as California, back in the mid-1500’s soon after the discovery of the bay which gained the name Monterey (mountain of the king). Soon, they were commonly called Redwoods, both for the reddish brown bark, and the similarly colored heartwood; both due to a high concentration of a class of chemicals commonly called tannins. Their size and the environment in which they live, and to a large extent help to create, have been entrancing people privileged to see them for thousands of years. At first, builders thought them to be inferior to other construction softwoods, but eventually they realized that structures built from Redwood lasted much longer, and vast fortunes - and much of the state’s infrastructure and housing - were built using lumber cut from these huge trees. During this time, they were studied by scientists who discovered several unique properties. Counting the rings revealed trunk ages ranging to 2000 years, field measurements showed diameters up to 21 feet (7 meters) and heights ranging from 250 to 350 feet (80 to 110 meters) and gave them the scientific name Sequoia sempervirens (after a famous Native Chief and the Latin words for “always living”.) Millions of acres have been harvested by methods that were anything but sustainable. After inhabiting most of the earth’s continents and regions for most of the last 100 million years, a 50-mile wide strip of California coastline ranging about 400 miles from the Oregon border to south of Monterey is their only natural home today. They are fast growing trees, and there are many parks and other protected areas where they have been growing largely undisturbed since being logged over 100 years ago, but only about 5% of the original ancient forests remain untouched. Muir Woods is such a place.

Muir Woods.  Even though it was only about 15 miles from the heart of the growing city of San Francisco the approaches were so steep, and Redwoods, so plentiful elsewhere, that the laws of economics allowed them to remain standing while forests much further away were decimated. The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 changed all that, because 250,000 people were suddenly homeless and shopping for lumber to rebuild. If not for the great fortune of William and Elizabeth Kent purchasing 295 acres just a few years earlier, and then fighting to keep the large timber companies and local governments from seizing their property, there would not be a Muir Wood today. After local courts had ruled against them, they found recourse in the Oval Office, as they donated the land to the Federal Government and President Theodore Roosevelt declared the land a National Monument in 1908, following the Kent’s wishes to name if after revered naturalist John Muir. Today it is one of the most-visited sites outside of San Francisco in the Bay Area, in the neighborhood of 800,000 visits per year.