A two-day Madera wine country itinerary: where to taste, eat and linger, built from local knowledge.
Day one: the valley-floor trail, Ficklin, Quady, San Joaquin. Day two: the Highway 41 climb, Dorval's foothills to Idle Hour's kitchen in Oakhurst.
The region sits along Highway 99 and Highway 41, the southern gateway road to Yosemite, which makes the logistics easy and the pace unhurried.
Late winter and spring for cool tasting weather, or pair an autumn Yosemite trip with harvest on the trail.
Confirm hours before every stop; the family-scale rooms that make this region special also adjust their schedules with the seasons.
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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