Road-Tripping Through the Crunchy, Swanky, Thoroughly Reborn North Coast

San Francisco Magazine Lindsey J. Smith Courtesy of the Inn at Newport Ranch Getting to know a new side of an old favorite. FROM ANY DIRECTION, the drive to the northern reaches of Mendocino County is long and tortuous, and by the time I reached the Inn at Newport Ranch, just north of Fort Bragg, I would have been happy to sleep in a yurt if it got me out of the car. The Inn, however, is no yurt. “Most people find that once they arrive, they don’t want to leave,” innkeeper Patricia Hunter ...