Napa & California’s Old Faithful Geysers Tour

Tour Description to Napa Valley & Calistoga’s Geyser

A breath taking adventure will take you to picture a unique Geological phenomena, California's Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga. Join our Napa Valley private wine tour and visit Calistoga’s Old Faithful Geyser to witness its majesty and spectacular nature-directed performance!

The dancing Uprising steam and bubbling hot water announcing the geyser will amaze your eyes. Take a seat by the pool surrounding by palm trees in the middle of the valley while waiting for the geyser to erupt. While preparing your camera or video camera ,admire Mount Saint Helena and the spectacular Palisades mountains standing in the background.

This is the perfect setting for a science fiction movie but the Old Faithful Geyser of California will make it a reality as the Geyser will throw a giant tower of thousands of gallons of boiling water rising in the blue sky! Join our wine tours to Upper Napa Valley to taste the world famous fine wine of Napa premium wineries. Choose your own winery ,taste your favorite reserve wine ,estate wine and Sparkling wines. Picture the spectacular rolling hills of Napa Valley and its scenic back roads including the infamous Silverado Wine Trail . You will visit Napa hidden wineries and famous wineries. Enjoy your lunch in the historic downtown Calistoga or at the historic California Culinary Institute in St Helena.

Napa Wine Country Tour offers you also the opportunity to picnic, enjoy your wine, and lunch within one of Napa Wineries. Let us take you to those wineries that made the history of Napa Valley premium wines.

This tour is new and exclusive to Golden Horizon Travel! We decided to come up with a new wine tour that includes California's Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga after the great reviews we have collected from our customers. They all loved this adventure and found it unique!

Why California's Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga is unique? How this natural mystery works?

The Legend of the Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga: The Old Faithful Geyser of California is one of three geysers in the world with the designation "old faithful." That emerges from the ground and erupts in unique performance at regular intervals! Join our private tours to admire the masterpiece of the mother nature! The three geysers on the surface of earth that erupts at regular intervals are: Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful Geyser, the Taupo Geyser in New Zealand and Calistoga’s Old Faithful Geyser

The Geysers are unique temporary geological features. Three factors are required to form a Geyser:

Intense heat comes from magma that is near the surface of the earth usually found near a volcanic area

natural deep subterranean supply of water, a source of heat and a series of fissures, fractures and cavities that provide a path to the surface of the earth. Where water travels deep underground through a pressurized fissures in the earth's crust

The third factor is a plumbing system that includes a strong natural reservoir to hold the boiling water geysers are generally found in a volcanic layers aligned along faults. The plumbing system is made up of a system of fractures, fissures and cavities. Constrictions in the system are necessary to the building up of pressure before an eruption. The eruption is constituted from a rising steam from the boiling water underground that pulses and eject the water swell upward in a spectacular performance!

Water for the Old Faithful Geyser of California emerges from an underground river. When the underground
water flows over the hot molten magma ,far deep in the earth, the water overheats ,expands and accumulate in large cavities underground. Under irresistible pressure from the heat, the overheated water impacted and forced via the fissures and erupts with an outpouring of steam followed by a fulmination of hot dancing water.

We highly recommend our 4x4 SUV tour to better explore the Napa Wine Country Tour and its highlands in-depth. In addition, the SUV is allowed to go through many famous streets where vans, buses and stretch limousines are restricted, such Lombard Street, the crookedest street in the USA. It's more affordable for a group of three or more to go on the SUV than on the Van or bus tours. Book online and save money and time or contact us by phone at 1800-210-3008.

Napa Valley & Calistoga’s Geyser Private Wine Tour Prices

**Note** : Our decreased and/or discounted prices noted above are based on the number of participants in your own party on these Semi-Private tours. No discount or refund will apply when sharing the SUV or the VAN with other parties who may sign up for the same tour.

By booking a semi-private SUV or VAN tour, you agree to share the required vehicle with other customers. Also you understand that this guided tour might be narrated in two or more foreign languages in addition to English. Nevertheless, we guarantee your tour even if no other participants sign up for that tour as long as the minimum number of participants is acquired.

You may wish to consider our Private Tours if you need more privacy, comfort and flexibility and do not wish to share the trip with other customers.

Our SUV Tours are highly recommended  offering  you a full day tour based on 8 hours with complementary pick-up and drop off in Downtown San Francisco  and Fisherman's Wharf. Complementary wine tasting may be offered  in Sonoma Valley saving each guest up to $ 100.00  wine tasting fees!!!  This Tour will Exceed your Expectations and save your Time and Money!

Book your private tour now and get 10% off (November to April except holidays & weekends)

Tour Itinerary for Napa Valley & Calistoga’s Geyser

8:30 AM - 9:00 AMPick Up

Complementary pick-up from your hotel in San Francisco downtown, Fisherman's Wharf or Sausalito or your favorite pick up location.
We also offer pick up and drop off out of San Francisco for private and charter tours. Please contact us for more information if you need a pick up out of San Francisco .

 

9:00 AM - 10:00 AMDrive To Napa Valley

Our Napa Wine Country Tour starts by driving through Marina District, home to the Palace of Fine Arts dominated by the Presidio and the Pacific Heights. We keep driving north through the colorful and iconic Golden Gate Bridge passing Sausalito in Marin County on highway 101 dominated by the imposing Mount Tamalpais.
As we drive north on highway 101, you can see Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, a 1956 double-decker bridge that measures 5.4 miles and San Quentin State Prison that profiles at the near end of the bridge. A few miles away, you will be able to see Franck Lloyd's architectural masterpiece and national monument known today as Marin County Civic Center. This eclectic landmark is crowned by circular domes symbolizing galaxies and infinity, has been the perfect setting for a number of science fiction movies such; Star Wars, Gattaca and THX 1138.
We now exit highway 101 to go on highway 37 East towards Napa Valley via Sonoma Valley. As we cross the bridge the separates Marin from Sonoma County, you can enjoy the views over Stone Tree Golf Club and the hanging houses overlooking San Pablo Bay and its picturesque lagoons .
We are now coming into the southern part of Sonoma Valley as we pass Sonoma's famous Infineon Raceway on highway 12 that takes us to our first winery.

 

10:00 AM - 11:00 PMFirst Winery

Arriving to the picturesque rolling hills of Napa Valley where you will enjoy your favorite wine tasting before lunch.

 

11:00 AM - 12:30 PMBreathtaking and unique adventure to Calistoga’s old faithful Geyser

Picture Calistoga’s Old Faithful Geyser of California and witness the Geyser’s spectacular eruption. It’s a Wonderland of Stunning Geothermal Activity that will amaze you! Calistoga is also famous for its Petrified Forest ,Sharpsteen Museum ,Mud Paths, and Robert Louis Stevenson State Park in addition to its unique wineries and hot springs.

 

11:00 AM - 12:30 PMVisit Calistoga old town and monuments

Calistoga is also famous for its mineral water known as “Calistoga”, for its great wineries and for its renowned hot springs spas. Don’t miss hot volcanic ash path known as a mud bath. It’s only few miles a way from California's old Faithful Geyser

 

12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch Time

Lunch time may take place as a gourmet lunch or often as a picnic within a winery in Napa Valley. Our schedule is flexible to match your needs and expectations.

 

2:00 PM - 4:00 PMMore Wine Tasting

Napa Wine Country Tour will offer you now a relaxing afternoon for more wine tasting or a panoramic excursions that combines the best of Napa Wine growing regions. We may visit some wine caves and hidden wineries where wine connoisseur will share with you the amazing story of the Wine Country while you taste your favorite wine over the picturesque rolling hills or from the terrace of a castle overlooking one of the Napa charming valleys.

 

4:00 PM - 5:00 PMBack to San Francisco

Napa Wine Country Tour will now take you back to San Francisco after such amazing journey with an optional side trip via Sausalito where you can decide either to stay with us or enjoying Sausalito and leave back to San Francisco on the ferry (tickets are not included). We often choose to make the breathtaking photo stop at Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay area. The Golden Gate Bridge is San Francisco's most colorful and iconic monument. Thanks to its astonishing giant dimensions, the Golden Gate Bridge becomes the most photographed bridge in the world. These spectacular sweeping views have drawn millions of tourists from all over the world. The Golden Gate Bridge inspired Hollywood most famous movies, such as James Bond, in a "View to Kill" and much more..

 

5:00 PM - 6:00 PMDrop Off

Our tour guide will drive you back to your hotel via the famous Pacific Heights (optional). The Pacific Heights is the most expensive area in San Francisco where some Movies Stars and celebrities live such ; Robin Williams, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Don Johnson, Danielle Steele, Nancy Pelosi, Lars Ulrich and more. We may drive by some famous movie locations such the house where Mrs. Doubtfire was filmed