Have a radical time in Berkeley, Calif.

For a onetime hotbed of protest, this liberal college town is pretty chill these days. You’re more likely to hear rumblings about the latest in the food revolution than people power. But you can still have a radically good time here, whether you’re interested in searching out the hidden gems of the tree-studded campus of the University of California or getting a glimpse of the city’s tie-dyed past.

Getting to Berkeley from San Francisco is fairly simple. By car you drive east across the Bay Bridge and continue on Interstate 80 east. Take the exit for University Avenue, which dead-ends at the west side of campus.