Start from 40 curated places around Sonoma, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
SingleThread Farm Restaurant
Kyle and Katina Connaughton's three-Michelin-star kaiseki-inspired tasting menu in downtown Healdsburg, sourced from their own 24-acre farm. Ranked in the world's top 50 restaurants — once-in-a-decade occasion territory.
Valette
Chef Dustin Valette's eponymous Michelin-starred Healdsburg dining room with a 'Trust Me' tasting menu and a kitchen that does California cuisine with French roots. Birthday-anniversary territory without the stuffiness.
Trails & outdoors
Jack London State Historic Park
Author Jack London's 1,600-acre ranch in Glen Ellen with 29 miles of trails, the ruins of his Wolf House, and a 4.8-mile Sonoma Mountain Trail that's the locals' moderate go-to. The cottage and grave site are short side detours.
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
A 4,000-acre park in Kenwood with 25 miles of trails ranging from a half-mile ADA-accessible nature loop to the 6.4-mile Bald Mountain summit (2,700 ft) with Bay-to-Sierra views on clear days.
Things to do
Jack London State Historic Park Museum
The museum and historic-cottage complex at Jack London's Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen, with original manuscripts, the writer's library, and free docent-led tours through the buildings he lived in until his 1916 death.
Buena Vista Winery
Founded 1857, the oldest continuously operating commercial winery in California, with hand-dug 1860s caves still in use and a tasting room set inside the original 1862 Press House. National Historic Landmark.
Landmarks & sights
Sonoma Plaza
An eight-acre National Historic Landmark square laid out in 1834 by General Mariano Vallejo — the largest plaza in California, ringed by Mission-era adobes, the old Bear Flag Republic site, and 30+ tasting rooms and shops. The civic and tourist center of Sonoma Valley.
Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma
The 21st and last California mission, founded 1823 — the only one established under Mexican rule — at the northeast corner of Sonoma Plaza. Small, calm, with a chapel and a one-room museum of mission-era artifacts.