Tourist Attractions in Sacramento, CA. Attractions near Sacramento, CA include the Sacramento Zoo, Fairy Tale Town, Six Flags Marine World, golfing, day spas, and the Sacramento Railroad Museum. The Sacramento...
The Sacramento is a wonderful zoo. It's what I would describe as just the right scale for Sacramento. It's larger than lot of smaller community zoos, but it's certainly not a San Diego type of zoo. It's a good multiple-hour attraction. There is an area called William Land Park, which is a more established older part of town that has a lot of nice homes. William Land Park, in addition to having the zoo, has an area called Fairy Tale Town, which is a city attraction that doesn't allows adult unless you have a kid with you. It's all about the kids with exhibits, fairy tales, and little rides. The closest major theme park is Six Flags Marine World which is about an hour away in Vallejo. We have these smaller children-oriented parks like Fairy Tale Town, but they are definitely not for thrill seekers.
Sacramento has quite a few public, private, and semi-private golf courses. Both the city of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento have their own courses that have very reasonable fees. There is a course called the Alistair McKenzie Course that Alistair McKenzie helped design. I think he also helped design Pebble Beach. In addition to that we have a lot of public play courses. It's not difficult at all to get on a very nice course at a very good rate at a decent time. You can go to the www.discovergold.org website to get list of courses and how to make reservations.
We have a number of day spas on our website as well. There are day spas downtown and in the Folsom area. One of the more famous one is one called Hoshall's. We have one downtown called the Blue Sky.
Probably the best known park is the American River Parkway that starts near Old Sacramento and goes for about 30 miles. It has 30 miles of hiking, biking, riverbank areas where you can fish, numerous areas for picnicking, and a little raft rental place so you can spend a day lounging around on the American River. There are also places on the river with rapids.
We have lots of museums, but being a state capital, that's not unusual. The Railroad Museum is the largest of its kind in this hemisphere. Sacramento was the endpoint for the Transcontinental Railroad, and the Railroad Museum does a nice job of conveying the railroad's history. It has some incredible exhibits like huge locomotives. The Discovery Museum is right up the street from the Railroad Museum. It focuses more on the Gold Rush. It has a large exhibit that walks people through Sacramento's pre-1848 to post-Gold Rush boom with everything from what was life like to tools to how kids dressed. We also have the Crocker Art Museum, which if I am not mistaken, might the oldest public art museum in the West. Crocker was a banker who made lots of money back in the Gold Rush age and established an art museum with number of permanent and changing exhibits. Another fascinating museum is the Towe Auto Museum. It's a little-known non-profit museum in a warehouse off the beaten path with vehicles going back to Model-T's up to today's higher-tech cars. They have 1920s and 30s style ambulances, police cars, sports cars, and family sedans. A lot of people donate older cars for exhibit purposes. We also have something called the California Museum of Women's History in the Arts. Maria Shriver is on the board of the museum. It has kind of a long name, but that shouldn't scare people away, because it has some fascinating exhibits. They have one of the few remaining copies of the Declaration of Independence that was printed back when the actual declaration was printed.
