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Adventures in Nor Cal
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items What to do in Northern California from food to outdoor adventures
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Outdoor Activities
Restaurants
Coffee Shops
Arts & Entertainment
Bakeries
Outdoor Activities
Shasta County and Northern California in General is the perfect place to come and enjoy the outdoors
Boating, paddle boarding or just laying out at the lake with friends is the perfect way to spend the blazing hot summer in Shasta County!
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
The view is beautiful and spending a day hiking here is well worth it!
McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park
Beautiful ice rink with incredible view!
Siskiyou Ice Rink
Incredible hiking and lots of lore about Lassen!
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Full of snow run off this river is freezing but worth it when temps reach 118°
Clear Creek (2025) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Reviews)
A season event but worth the hype!! Gorgeous and every November through New Years they are open to walk through and look at the lights. There are vendors for pizza and burgers and cocoa or spiked cider and bonfires along the way as well!
Redding Garden of Lights
Restaurants
For a seemingly remote area there are a ton of creative restaurants with local and quality food that make you want to keep coming back!
Best menu in town! The burgers and pizzas are incredible. The carpaccio is melt in your mouth! The rotating seasonal menu is delicious: in the past a saffron lamb leg with cous cous was my favorite meal I’ve ever had 🫠
Mosaic Restaurant
A local pizzeria with all ingredients from italy and typo 00 flour for the pizza. The crust is perfection and the are simple delicious.
Donatello's Pizzeria
Thai comfort food. The nicest people run this and as a student I loved coming here after a lake day but as an adult yellow curry or pho noodle soup when Im under the weather is a must!
Champa Garden Restaurant
Surprisingly the best sushi
Holiday Market
Their steak salad and bowl are great!
Our Menu | Açaí Bowls
Pressed juice! Get the Mean green and a dirty ginger shot with a wrap
Roots Juice Bar
Love their deli and surprising wide variety of niche organic foods!
Orchard Nutrition Center
Coffee Shops
Small town feel with delicious local roasters and coffee shops
Incredible local coffee but also great shop with cool feel and amazing seasonal drinks with local ingredients, they use humboldt milk and make most sauces in house and have tillamook ice cream in a soft serve during summer months.
Theory Coffee Roasters
The coolest coffee shop since it was called coffee bar over 15 years ago but a rebrand and upgrade made this place even better! They offer raw milk at this location and also use local bakers for pastries and most menu items are local and/or organic a...
Evergreen by Feast Coffee (@evergreen.rdd) · Redding, CA
Such a cute coffee shop and so many memories of driving out here
Heritage Coffeehouse in Shasta Lake
Arts & Entertainment
Both art and entertainment and even an outdoor venue
Right next to Mosaic is the Sundial bridge which is really the most notable local attraction. A working sundial that is also a light up bridge and there are christmas light festivals and summer glow nights as well as several surround trails to walk o...
Sundial Bridge
Local venue for shows also on the river next to the bride and this is also the hub for 4th of July
Upcoming Events — Redding Civic Auditorium
All the best in one place Roots juice, Feats Coffee, From the Hearth Sourdough, fruits and meats and just a good weekend feel.
Redding Farmers Market
A season event but worth the hype!! Gorgeous and every November through New Years they are open to walk through and look at the lights. There are vendors for pizza and burgers and cocoa or spiked cider and bonfires along the way as well!
Redding Garden of Lights
Bakeries
The best sweets in my opinion
Originally Nathan’s Bread but Bread met pie lol and now they own a bakery together but still the best loaf of sourdough you will have!
When Pie Meets Bread
Anytime there is an event it’s one of two places but this bakery was on a baking show and has some notoriety
Sublime Cake Design
The other bakery for cupcakes and honestly may be my favorite because they have a little of filling in each one and I used to come here a lot as a student.
Sweetspot