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Ages: 4 and up
Ages: 6 and up
Any Peanuts fan will enjoy a trip to Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Museum. This museum showcases years upon years of the daily comic featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and all the Peanuts gang.
Mr. Schulz's studio, tools, and memorabilia are on display in the permanent gallery upstairs while other exhibits rotate through the lower level of this beautiful and modern museum.
The museum welcomes all ages, but Miss Birdie bel...
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California Cavern is California's first cave show! Discovered in 1849 and opened in 1850, Captain Taylor made it possible for daring settlers to visit the inside of the cave for just a pinch of gold. Today's visitors may see the etched names of hundreds in the Registry Hall, a large chamber with limestone walls and ceiling.
But the excitement doesn't stop there! Since more of the cavern has been explored and made safe for further wal...
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Great America offers 100 acres of fun for the whole family.
Boomerang Bay is open daily from June 4th-August14th, and open on weekends August 20th-September 4th. Enjoy 13 water slides, a wave pool, tubing, a multilevel water fortress, interactive fountains, or lounging poolside.
KidZville is a mini-town built just for kids. Bumper cars, mini-drop rides, small rides, swings, and a giant construction zone playground are all available i...
more»Ages: 6 and up
The Chabot Space & Science Center is located high on the tops of the Oakland Hills, a perfect spot to take advantage of the Center's telescopes, which are the largest research-quality telescopes open to the public west of the Mississippi.
The 86,000 square foot center features interactive space and science exhibits, digital dome planetarium shows and MegaDome shows. For a list of the center's current exhibits, click here, and for a ...
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An apple lover's haven, High Hill Ranch will tickle taste buds with apple pies, apple cakes, homemade caramel apples, fresh apple donuts and fritters, ice cold apple juice and even award winning apple wine. Hamburgers, hot dogs, tri-tip sandwiches and steamy soup will help round out an afternoon of apple-y treats!
Children will beg to stay longer when they see that there are a number of things to do besides munch apples l...
more»Ages: 2 and up
The San Francisco Zoo, nestled against the Pacific Ocean, is a world away from its urban surroundings. Over 250 species of animals reside in the park, and many important botanical exhibits are featured throughout the park as well. The recently built giraffe house is a gorgeous addition to the zoo, and the primate exhibit is a sprawling, active, tree-filled yard with two levels (ground and a tree-height path) to walk and watch the m...
more»Ages: 2 and up
With over 100 years of history, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is the last remaining seaside amusement park on the West Coast. A summer trip to the area wouldn't be complete without a stop at the Boardwalk.
The admission-free boardwalk boasts a number of free activities: enjoy the FREE Friday Night Bands on the Beach concert series; Wednesday nights in the summer months mean FREE Movies on the Beach; take a self-guided historic walki...
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It's not hard to picture Yosemite National Park in your mind's eye. It's easy to imagine a place of thundering waterfalls, granite crags, towering trees and beautiful wildlife, hundreds of acres wide thanks to the millions of photos taken of this beautiful place; however, it's not until you find yourself there, in the valley or on a trail, taking it all in, that you can really experience Yosemite.
From Modesto, Yosemite is only...
more»Ages: 3 and up
Columbia State Historic Park — once a bustling, brawling gold rush town — sits at an elevation of 2,100 feet amongst the oaks of the Sierra Nevada foothills. In the mid 1800's, the town of Columbia was one of the largest cities in California, attracting people from other US states as well as other countries with promises of gold. In fact, between 1850 and the early 1900s, as much as $150 million in gold was mined in Columbia.
As dep...
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