This 2017 BuzzFeed video was viewed more than 12 million times and shared 61,508 times on Facebook.

The Cheese Trail, co-owned by siblings Vivien and Michael Straus, has evolved from a local project into an essential resource for connecting consumers with California’s artisanal cheese makers.

The 14-year-old resource, which celebrates small farms, cheese-perfecting pros, and dairy delights across the state, just unveiled its 2025 trail, and its new offerings, as spring was dawning.

Monterey Bay is now on the map.

For over a decade, the Cheese Trail map has guided foodies through the backroads and city streets of the Bay Area in search of handcrafted, locally made cheese.

The 2025 map features over 44 artisan cheesemakers across the state, including 23 in the Bay Area, most of which offer tours, tastings and retail sales.

The award-winning San Mateo County cheese maker offers farm tours, along with a farm shop selling cheeses, jams, soaps, and more.

California's 14th annual Cheese Trail map features 44 artisan cheesemakers, including 4 new additions. Explore over 600 cheeses and experience tours, tastings and retail sales across the state.

The annual California Artisan Cheese Festival culminates in a marketplace, which is a convenient way to support local cheesemakers and taste their world-class products.

The annual California Artisan Cheese Festival culminates in a marketplace, which is a convenient way to support local cheesemakers and taste their world-class products.

For the freshest chevre, you need to go straight to the source.

The annual California Artisan Cheese Festival takes place March 21 – 23, 2025. Use the code 25CT15 for 15% discount on seminars and Sunday Marketplace.

Tickets are on sale for the California Artisan Cheese Festival, March 21–23! Don’t miss the popular Friday farm tours—new stops this year, so book early!

Fior Di Latte Cheese Shop on Good Day LA for the first annual Latino Restaurant Week Long Beach City.

NBC TV California Live explores wine pairings and the California Cheese Trail, highighting Stepladder Creamery, Marin French and Nicasio Valley Cheese.

Plenty to see right here in the Bay Area this Labor Day weekend

Cheese makes you happy. So that explains why partygoers hover around the cheeseboard. It would be only a matter of time — in 2010 — until the California Cheese Trail would bear the fruits of our casein-culture forebears.

After this prestigious ceremony was held, see how many of the Golden State’s producers walked away with wins

Created in the spirit of the state’s Wine Road and Cheese Trail that provide self-motivated visitors with a rough DIY points-of-interest itinerary, the Cannabis Trail highlights some of the people, places and seminal moments in the history of the marijuana movement with special plaques.

California Cheese Trail founder Vivien Straus has a lot to say about California creameries.

The North Bay isn’t just home to world famous wine country. You can also find some of the Bay Area’s finest cheesemakers here. Whether you’re interested in planning a weekend that combines those two delicious items, or simply visiting a few gourmet cheese companies, Novato is the perfect base for a foodie getaway.

Cheese lovers, listen up. Here’s an overnight itinerary for a full day exploring the best cheesemakers in Sonoma and Marin

Follow this scenic route that will have you soaking up gorgeous landscapes, rural backroads, and oodles of cheesy charm.

The Bay Area is already unmatched in indie grocery store quality (Bi-Rite, Berkeley Bowl, Rainbow Grocery, Good Life, Other Avenues…), but Gus’s Community Market gets the prize ...

The popular adage that what grows together goes together is perfectly demonstrated in the dreamy partnership between Sonoma County cheese and wine.

Host Clark Wolf chats with two of the cheesiest people we know! Cheesemaker Omer Seltzer of Mt. Eitan Cheese shares his delicious cheeses, and Vivien Straus, creator of the California Cheese Trail.

Join artisan cheesemakers, farmers, chefs, brewers, winemakers, distillers and enthusiasts from March 22 to 24 at the 18th annual California Artisan Cheese Festival that takes place in Santa Rosa and locations throughout Marin and Sonoma counties.

If no visit to WA’s south west is complete without a wander through Margaret River’s winery district, then no self-respecting foodie should leave San Francisco without tracing the California Cheese Trail.

A perfectly ripe moment for California Artisan Cheese · The 2024 California Artisan Cheese Festival Announces Events for Three-Day Celebration

One of the hottest culinary tourist trends is the “culinary trail.” Regional culinary trails draw tourists, foodies and others looking for a unique and fun experience and offer a variety of unusual, unique, or hard to find fresh farm and food products and beverages.

California Cheese Trail in Sonoma County: Embark on the California Cheese Trail and visit nearly 30 farms and creameries for cheese tastings, tours, and classes.

The California Cheese Trail - run by siblings Vivien and Michael Straus - promotes artisan creameries and family farmers.

Omer Seltzer, son of renowned cheesemaker Shai Seltzer, has started making cheese in Sonoma County.

California Bountiful TV: California Cheese Trail.

Discover what West Marin has to offer with its rugged coastline and rolling hills

The 2023 California Cheese Trail’s digital map debuted in March 2023 The downloadable guide features dozens of artisan cheesemakers

Take a stroll down the California Cheese Trail

New book about craft butter by Sheana Davis, of Epicurian Connections in Sonoma

The California Cheese Trail gives people the opportunity to visit the source

The California Cheese Trail includes 77 creameries up and down the state, with 9 suggested loops that range in scope from 7 to 125 miles.

From Marin French Cheese Co. to Petaluma’s Lagunitas Brewing Co. - the Bay Area’s best picnic spots.

The newly-updated 2023 California Cheese Trail printed tourism map features 45 artisan cheesemakers in 23 counties

Santa Rosa’s Cheesiness Noted by National Survey.

Head to West Marin, where you can sample fresh oysters, tour local food purveyors, and explore the marine life

Follow the California Cheese Trail to enjoy cheese tastings and even cheese-making classes.

Marin County artisan cheesemaker faces end to lease for water buffalo ranch.

Northern California isn’t just home to wine country anymore — now, it’s becoming known as “wine-and-cheese country.”

“On the map” is not just a figure of speech: California’s official Cheese Trail mapshows almost 80 cheesemakers

Pandemic, wildfires, and drought tested the resilience of artisan cheesemakers. These farmers fought back

Step up your holiday cheese board with wedges from these famous creameries and dairy farms.

Bay Area artisan cheese makers are making tough decisions right now.

Today’s cheese lovers can drive (or internet browse) along the California Cheese Trail, stretching from Crescent City near the Oregon border south to Los Angeles.

We won’t get too cheesy about it, but a San Luis Obispo County creamery is gaining international attention thanks to a BuzzFeed video about the California Cheese Trail.

As the domestic cheese market rapidly grows and improves, California is right there at the forefront, home to many creameries working on thoughtful cheese innovations.

Cheese-making is now a hallmark of Northern California’s food renaissance, thanks to producers like Cowgirl Creamery, Bellwether Farms, Andante Dairy, and Point Reyes Farmstead.

The California Cheese Trail is a tasting tour across the epicenter of California's artisanal cheese movement where you can meet artisan cheesemakers, learn all about artisan cheese and the cheesemaking process, and sample of the region’s finest cheese and other dairy products that the farms produce.

the region evolved from being wine country’s opening act into a true travel destination in its own right

"I'm on a flavorful field trip that is delivering on several positive fronts."

When it comes to enjoying the best locally sourced food California has to offer, Marin County is a world-class destination just across the Golden Gate Bridge.

Here’s a selection of newer farmstead dairies that offer tours, usually with a tasting afterward.

California has been making cheese longer than it has been making wine. And California can take the credit for creating Monterey Jack Cheese.

Those black and white and brown cows are doing more than just grazing in the fields. The ones in Marin County California are producing milk for some award-winning locally-made, handcrafted cheeses.

One of the fun things to do around West Sonoma County and also going towards Napa is to do the delicious cheese trail, one of the fun things to do in Sonoma that will be a fun and foodie experience to enjoy around the county.

Sonoma and Marin counties are wild for cheese. So much so that there is a Cheese Trail Map, created by the Cheesetrail.org agency to showcase the 30-some artisan farms, creameries, and cheese makers spanning the coast to the town of Sonoma.

Like wine, cheese reflects the terroir, or flavors, of the soil, as well as the climate, humidity and environment of the place where it’s made, and the green grasses of spring in Sonoma and Marin counties contribute to the sweetest milk and cheeses.

The new Sonoma Marin Cheese Trail winds about a hundred miles through the redwood canyons, pastures, and oak-covered hills of Marin and Sonoma counties just north of San Francisco.

Along with a quiet revolution in northern Marin and Sonoma Counties, the roads and the stop are now on the map as part of California's newest cheese country trail.

The informal trail includes seven creameries that are open to the public year-round for tasting.