Old Towne Orange Easily Orange County’s most charming downtown, Old Towne Orange sports a few blocks of Mission and Classical Revival buildings centered around Plaza Park, a tree-filled island at the center of a traffic circle. You’re always within stumbling distance of a gastropub or a breakfast spot here, like the Filling Station Cafe, a cozy diner with nods towards its origin as an old gas station. The main draw, though—assuming you’re into such things—just might be the dozen or so antique stores along Glassell Street, including the Orange Circle Antique Mall, a jam-packed indoor market (open daily) with more than 125 small vendors. Elsewhere in town, you can see local works of 20th-century painting at the Hilbert Museum of California Art. And for any Huell Howser fans, you can find a piece of California’s gold at the Chapman University campus, which houses the late travel show host’s archives (accessible on weekdays only). If you don’t feel like driving down the 5, just take Metrolink to the Orange stop on the west side of town.