Start from 47 curated places around Napa Valley, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
The French Laundry
Thomas Keller's three-Michelin-star institution in a 1900s stone cottage, where the nine-course tasting menu has set the American fine-dining bar for 30 years. Once-in-a-lifetime occasion territory, with reservations as a sport.
Auro
Calistoga's only Michelin-starred restaurant, inside the Four Seasons resort, with a seven-course contemporary tasting menu built around the on-site farm. Quietly excellent rather than showy.
Trails & outdoors
Skyline Wilderness Park
A 1,200-acre park just east of downtown Napa with 25+ miles of trails ranging from a flat lakeside walk to ridge climbs with valley views. The Lake Marie Road loop is the locals' default after-work run.
Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
A 1,900-acre park between St. Helena and Calistoga with redwood groves, a 36-foot historic grist mill, and the Redwood-Ritchey Canyon loop (3 miles, 400 ft gain) that's the valley's most popular shaded hike.
Things to do
Oxbow Public Market
Downtown Napa's 40,000-square-foot food hall in a riverside steel-and-glass shed, anchored by Hog Island oysters and Model Bakery and full of producers worth tasting through. The way locals do a Saturday lunch.
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
217 acres in Carneros with three galleries, a 35-acre lake, and a sculpture park built by collectors Rene and Veronica di Rosa, focused entirely on Northern California contemporary art. Strange, generous, unlike any other Napa stop.
Landmarks & sights
Castello di Amorosa
A 121,000-square-foot 13th-century-style Tuscan castle hand-built by fourth-generation vintner Dario Sattui, complete with great hall, dungeon, and a working winery underneath. Imported a million antique bricks from Europe — it's the closest thing California has to a real medieval keep.
Old Faithful Geyser of California
A small private property north of Calistoga where a geyser erupts every 15–30 minutes shooting 60 feet of mineral water skyward, with a petting zoo of fainting goats and four-horned sheep on the side. Pleasantly weird, kid-magnet roadside attraction.