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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...

Formerly known as Zeum, the Children's Creativity Museum uses multimedia technologies to nurture creativity and communication in children. 

Interactive exhibits explore animation, digital arts and music videos, among other things, and nearly each of those hands-on activities can be captured and kept for prosperity.  The super helpful employees of the museum will help visitors burn a copy of a stop-animation sequence to DVD, or email ...

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...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is home to over 550 species of sea life and has been a pioneer in rescuing and rehabilitating such life for over 25 years.

The daily activities — Kelp Forest feeding, penguin feeding, sea otter feeding, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's presentations — are anything but regular.  Because live animals are involved, visitors are never viewing the same event twice.

Children will enjoy the interactive ...

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...

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...

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...

The Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is open year round for day use and May through November for overnight camping.

For those looking to learn more about traditional Mi-wok and other Sierra Nevada Native American groups, the onsite Chaw'se Regional Indian Museum is open Friday through Monday, 11am - 3pm. Exhibits include tools used and crafts made by the natives. A ceremonial roundhouse reconstructed in the middle of the smal...

Join kite enthusiasts young and old at the Berkeley Kite Festival! Held at Ceasar E. Chavez Park within the Berkeley Marina, this annual festival is a weekend of high-flying fun during which you can sit back, relax, and watch amazing kite stunts, battles and even ballets, or bring your kite along with you and take an active part in the festivities.

Both Saturday and Sunday families will enjoy the following hands-on events:

• 11am-1pm: K...

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 ...