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Read on for tips on where to find flowers, which wineries are on the up and how to stay satiated and well rested as you roam the region’s hills and dales.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024

The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

After hiking o’er hills and o’er dales, Said the campers: “Good night; happy trails!”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

Thorstein went south by the dales all the way till he came to his estates.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

They stand here and there in the wood or under its eaves, silent, watching endlessly over the trees; but deep in the darkest dales there are hundreds and hundreds of them, I believe.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien