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Most road trip meals happen in a rush. You pull off at whatever exit looks promising, end up in a parking lot with fluorescent lighting, eat something forgettable, and get back on the highway. It doesn’t have to work that way. There are outdoor seating restaurants along I-5 California that…

You have been on I-5 for two hours. The next exit is Dunsmuir, California, a small mountain town most road trippers drive past without a second look. That would be a mistake. Because hidden just off the highway is a burger so good it has turned one-time visitors into regulars…

Every year, millions of Californians load up the car and hit the road for Memorial Day weekend. It is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, and I-5 carries a huge share of that traffic. From the Bay Area heading north toward Shasta, from Southern California pushing through…

If you have ever driven the length of California on Interstate 5, you know the hunger panic that sets in somewhere between exits. The fast food chains are fine in a pinch, but after a few hours on the road, you want something real. Something made fresh, with actual ingredients,…

If you have ever driven I-5 through Northern California, you know the stretch. Miles of highway, a handful of gas stations, and fast food options that all feel the same. Finding a genuinely good meal on that corridor is harder than it should be. Yaks on the 5 in Dunsmuir,…