Photos bottom left, clockwise show 4 of 12 regions: Orange County; San Diego County; Shasta Cascade; and High Sierra.
They took the State of California and they sliced it up, putting all of its pieces into sections of a pie. Deciding that it would be easiest to talk about and promote regions based on their geographic locations, geologic and climate attributes, they came up with a list of 12 California Regions. Here it is…
1 Los Angeles County
2 San Francisco Bay Area
3 San Diego County
4 Orange County
5 Central Coast
6 North Coast Redwoods
7 Inland Empire
8 Central Valley
9 Gold County
10 High Sierra
11 Desserts
12 Shasta Cascade