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Best Western Plus Black Oak Blog

March
24
posted by: Best Western Plus Black Oak on: March 24, 2024

If you have been thinking of visiting California in the near future and love rolling, gentle hills covered with acres of grape growing plants and olives, blue skies and warm weather, definitely visit Paso Robles.  It is a thriving community of over 30,000 people, has the small-town feel of a suburban-rural community, blessed with a Mediterranean climate: warm, dry summers and cool wet winters.  May to October is peak tourist season with September to November being the height of the grape harvest season.  Paso Robles has much to offer for everyone.

 

DISCOVER PASO ROBLES BY DOING A DOWNTOWN SCAVENGER HUNT!

Grab some friends and or family members to participate in an interactive tour of the city where the city is your gameboard.  Go to the URBAN ADVENTURE QUEST site online, type in Paso Robles  for all the information to get you started on this fun adventure.  All that is required is a smartphone to receive the necessary clues to get you going on a fun and engaging walking tour of the city.  Solve the clues, complete the challenges and work together to unravel secrets of the city.  What a fun and unusual way to see the sights and hidden gems of the city while learning interesting facts and discovering the unique history of the town.  Time allowed, clues, cost of using the online game etc. will be listed.

 

FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT BUT STILL ENTERTAINING, HOW ABOUT GOING UNDERGROUND FOR WINE TASTING?!!!!

During your time in beautiful Paso Robles, and if you like wine sampling, there are 3 great winery CAVE tours.  HALTER RANCH VINEYARDS, EBERLE WINERY AND ROBERT HALL WINERY all offer winery cave tours.  After registering, one meanders down a cave kind of path where you will be able to sample some delicious wine, learn from experts about the wine-growing process, the ways wine is cultivated and storage.  As an extra bonus, if it is hot, you get to cool off in a cave!  Times, costs, length of tour, how grapes are cared for and grown, plus more will be available on their sites and locations.

 

2nd ANNUAL PASO ROBLES TACOS FEST, APRIL 20, 2024 at ESTRELLA WARBIRDS MUSEUM.

If you love tacos and are going to be in the area around mid-April, circle April 20, 2024 for a must do event.  Vendors from all over California will be cookin' up some Carne Asado, Pork Carnitas, Pollo, Al Pastor, Chorizo, fish and more!  Fresh guacamole made from local Morro Bay Avocados, beer, margaritias, micheladas, will be available and over 10,000 tacos will be served.  Mexican street vendors will be selling merchandise, a car show will be happening and you will have access to the Warbirds Museum.  Tacos will be sold for a maximum of $3 each from each vendor.  For more information go to.....hungry@pasotacofest.com....

For comfortable accommodation, free parking, pool access, in-house fitness and business centre, the BEST WESTERN PLUS OAK at Paso Robles is a great place to stay.  An extra bonus are the rooms have blackout curtains, extra long beds, and are non-smoking.  As well, Spanish is spoken for people who are more comfortable speaking Spanish.  Welcome to Paso Robles and have a great, fun time!