The Best Hotels Near Wool Growers Restaurant, by the Record
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Named for a granite wall it sits about 80 miles from, this boutique hotel in downtown Merced splits its personality evenly between base camp and city stay. Yosemite is the obvious draw, but Merced is the last real town before the park swallows you whole, and the hotel leans into both sides of that equation. Practical for adventurers, comfortable enough for anyone who just wants a stylish room on the Central Valley rather than a tent.
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Forty-five Craftsman bungalows spread across 1,700 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills, each with a fireplace and a soaking tub, most looking out over fairways or valley. This is a full-on golf resort with Robert Trent Jones Jr.'s championship course as the centerpiece, though the One Iron Bar and its martini list have a way of making the back nine feel optional. Il Vigneto handles Californian cooking with produce from the surrounding region.