Salinas Travel Guide

Information for visitors to the city of Salinas in Northern California. This Salinas travel guide is a quick reference guide to hotels, restaurants, events, activities, and attractions in Salinas, California. See also our Monterey County Guide and about California's Central Coast Region.

Salinas is most well-known for its annual rodeo and airshow and for being the birthplace of Nobel Prize winning book author John Steinbeck. It is conveniently located on U.S. Highway 101 and the Amatrak Coast STarlight train line and is within 40 miles of central coast attractions in Monterey, Carmel by the Sea, Big Sur, Elkhorn Slough, Watsonville, and Santa Cruz.

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