Charmian’s place was clean, cozy and had everything we needed for our stay. The location is about a 20 min drive from Santa Cruz; we chose this location since it was close to my family in Felton, however, it was in such a cute town that had easy access to the redwood state park that I would recommend this location to anyone. We used her place as a homebase for a couple daytrips to Monterey, Big Sur, San Francisco and Big Basin state park. It was easy to get to all of these places and we may have missed the charm of the towns of Ben Lomand and Felton had we not stayed at Charmian’s place.