Mr & Mrs Smith The Inn at Newport Ranch

If you want to experience nature at its most immense, then Cali’s coastal route delivers. But, we’re not talking about oft-travelled Big Sur or Napa winelands; instead, the vast remote stretches, mist-swathed redwoods and soaring bluffs north of ‘Frisco. In Mendocino County, the Inn at Newport Ranch sits on a 2,000-acre estate (formerly logging town Newport), encompassing expansive prairies, coastal ridgeways by a whale-migration route, an active cattle ranch, mystical forests and more. Its Arts and Crafts hideaways, most with view-blessed terraces, incorporate local woods in masterful fashion and dining makes the most of the inn’s fruitful gardens and local farms. But it’s the opportunities for wild encounters here that draw those seeking spiritual succour: forest bathing or sweat-lodge sessions, UTV tours with a resident historian, horseback rides from ridge to canopy, sea-cave explorations by kayak… Or simply listening to the meditations of the restless ocean as you watch the sun rise and set.