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Coronado, CA
Coronado sits on a peninsula across San Diego Bay from downtown, connected to the mainland both by the iconic Coronado Bridge, a sweeping curved span completed in 1969, and by a long sandy isthmus called the Silver Strand that connects it to Imperial Beach to the south. The Hotel del Coronado, an enormous Victorian beachfront resort that opened in 1888, remains one of the most architecturally distinctive and historically significant wooden structures on the entire West Coast, and it's widely believed to have inspired the mythical Emerald City in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with Baum reportedly having stayed at the hotel while writing. Naval Air Station North Island, occupying a substantial portion of the peninsula, has been a major US Navy installation since the early 20th century and is considered the birthplace of American naval aviation, giving Coronado a genuine and long-running military identity alongside its resort-town reputation. Coronado's combination of one of the most architecturally significant historic beach hotels in the country, a direct literary connection to one of American literature's most enduring stories, and a major naval aviation installation has made it one of the most distinctive small cities anywhere on the Southern California coast.
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Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Rancho Santa Fe was originally developed in the 1920s by the Santa Fe Railway as a eucalyptus tree farm intended to supply railroad ties, a plan abandoned once the wood proved unsuitable for that purpose — the railway then pivoted to developing the land as an upscale residential community instead, hiring architect Lilian Rice to design its Spanish Colonial Revival village center. That founding architectural vision has been strictly preserved through decades of continued design-review regulation, and the resulting village core, along with the surrounding large equestrian-zoned properties, has made Rancho Santa Fe one of the most consistently wealthy and lowest-density unincorporated communities in the entire state of California. The community's oversized residential lots, many several acres or larger, support an active equestrian culture, with numerous private horse properties and riding trails woven throughout the area's covenant-protected land, a scale of property size increasingly rare anywhere else within San Diego County's borders. Rancho Santa Fe's combination of a preserved 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival village design, some of the largest and most tightly protected residential lots anywhere in coastal California, and an active equestrian culture has made it one of the wealthiest and most exclusive unincorporated communities in the entire United States.
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