2 Best Sights in The Central Coast, California

An old-fashioned country store jam-packed with local fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and gifts, Avila Valley Barn also offers the chance to experience rural American traditions. You can pet farm animals and savor homemade ice cream and pies daily, and on weekends ride ponies or a hay wagon out to the fields to pick your own produce.

Come to the 2,000-acre Covell Ranch to see one of the world's largest private stands of endangered Monterey pines and witness herds of gentle Clydesdales roaming the range. Much of the ranch is in a conservation easement that will never be developed. The 1½-hour guided vehicle tours take you through pastures and pine groves to the barn. The ranch also offers trail rides.