Best Route: NCTo WY To CA For Grandkids Rodeo

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We can use all kinds of tips as to routes, campgrounds, sites to see after we leave Gillette, WY.

No schedule after Rodeo July 17-24, free wheeling after that.  37 ft Class A with toad...on the way to CA to see friends and sister, but we have never seen the National Parks, etc..all will be new to us.

How much of a challenge will the road be from Boise, ID to Lake Tahoe via US-95?

In planning our trip, looking at CA, we will be visiting friends in Monterra, then wanted to head to San Luis Obispo,  on pass Los Angeles to where sister lives in Claremont, CA.  

Question is how user friendly will U.S. 1 down CA coast be for a  37 ft  Class A with toad, or should we take inner roads instead?

  Also  Thanks to any and all advice..new at this cross country travel. 

Toni & Terry

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95 is a great road, just fine 2 lane across some of Oregon's finest high desert. In Nevada it too is a great drive. However when you get to Winnemucca, Nevada I suggest you go east to Battle Mountain and take 305 south to Austin, Nevada. I know it seems to detour you little bit but the scenic value of going this way into Reno is well worth the few extra miles.

When you reach Reno you will want to take Hwy 431 (The Incline) West to Lake Tahoe. It is quite a drive, we did it in our 40 ft Safari Zanzibar and was not a problem though pretty steep in a couple places. There are numerous passing zones to let traffic pass. This will place you at the north end of the lake. From here go west all the way around the lake, the views are spectacular on 28 and on 89. It intersects 88 South and leads you to Jackson and Hwy 49. There are along this entire drive small quaint towns alive with activity. Traffic is not heavy at all and the views wonderful. Hwy 49 is a twisty hilly drive through the top side of the California costal range.   49 drops you at Oakhurst and Hwy 41 for a not so spectacular drive onto Hwy 41 across central California agricultural farm lands. It gets interesting again Kettleman City to Paso Robles and on to Hwy 101 and a pretty drive down the coast to San Francisco.

You could also stay on 89 till it intersects 395 in Nevada again and my what a drive this is. It will drop you much farther South near Tehachapi missing most of the costal areas you were looking to see.

Others can comment on 1 that are more familiar.