Food and Wine Trails

Each trail is a drive from Sacramento to farms or wineries that sell what they grow, in the order you reach them.

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Each pin marks the town a farm is in. Choose one to open its trail.
List the stops on this map

Food Trails

  • Apple Hill 7 stops · best Aug – Dec Seven farm stands and orchards around Placerville and Camino, most of them selling apples from late summer into December.
  • Placer Mandarin Ranches 6 stops · best Nov – Jan Six farm stores along Interstate 80 from Granite Bay to Meadow Vista, four of them on mandarin ranches.
  • Capay Valley 4 stops · best Apr – Nov Four farm stops up Highway 16, from lavender fields in Capay to a lavender farm store in Rumsey.

Wine Trails

  • Clarksburg Wineries 3 stops · best Jan – Dec Three estate wineries on Delta land their families have farmed since the 1800s, from Clarksburg to the River Road near Freeport.

Every winery with a tasting room is on the wineries page.