Sometimes 101 is just too small a number. Many readers, having digested our new list of 101 best West Coast experiences , have stepped up to make the case for destinations we left out, from a country road in Malibu to a remote beach town on a Canadian island. We’ve gathered a sampling of them here.
Most of these readers are pitching their hometowns or sharing finds from their own western ramblings, but others are more mysterious. One reader wrote from a beloved corner of coastal Northern California to say, “I would tell you [where], but then it would be CROWDED.” Another reader, insisting on anonymity, said he likes living on a boat in Baja Peninsula, looking out at “the world’s biggest aquarium” in the Gulf of California.
Yet another reader described a “magical” spot at Stinson Beach in Marin County, where birders could watch scores of snowy egrets and great blue herons nest. Alas, officials at Audubon Canyon Ranch say, that moment has passed. A campaign of prolonged and increasing harassment by bald eagles has chased the egrets and herons from the Martin Griffith Preserve .
As much as we’d sometimes like it to, the West does not stand still. As the guy who put together the 101 destinations on our list and fretted plenty over which to include, I have to admit that the readers’ choices here are solid, if not downright jealousy-provoking. I hope to see some of these places in coming months.
Meanwhile, they’re arranged here from south to north. In a passag.