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California National Historic Trail Top Attraction!
National Park in various states, CA USA
National Historic Trail The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840's and 1850's, the greatest mass migration in American history.
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Van Damme State Park Top Attraction!
Scenic in Little River, CA USA
Van Damme State Park consists of beach and upland on the Mendocino Coast. Of all the park system's units along the Mendocino coast, Van Damme is perhaps the richest in terms of historical resources connected with the redwood lumber industry.
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The Skunk Train Top Attraction!
Excursion in Fort Bragg, CA USA
It is the towering trees, a glimpse of a deer drinking from the Noyo River, an isolated fisherman's cabin peeking from the forest, and the notion that you have left the rest of the world behind that draw people to the Skunk Train. Except for the passengers' high-tech cameras and modern garb, a time traveler from the last century would feel quite at home riding on the Skunk Train today.
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Railtown 1897 State Historic Park Top Attraction!
Historic Site in Jamestown, CA USA
Home of the "movie train" - a great railway museum If you love old trains, Raitown is a must! It brings America's glorious railway past to life! The museum includes a working train with historic cars operating from April through October that lets visitors relive the experience of early train travel.
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Yosemite National Park Top Attraction!
National Park in Yosemite National Park, CA USA
One of the most spectacular and most visited national parks in North America For tens of thousands of years, humans have changed, and have been changed by, this place we now call Yosemite. The Ahwahneechee lived here for generations, followed by the arrival of Europeans in the mid-1800s.
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Borax Visitor Center 
Museum in Boron, CA USA
Mining and Mineral Education Center The Borax Visitor Center is located in Boron, California, at the edge of California's largest open pit mine. The Visitor Center mission is to educate the public about the important role of mining and minerals in their daily lives.
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Children's Museum at La Habra
Childrens Museum in La Habra, CA USA
The Children's Museum welcomes local, national and international visitors. Children can ride a kid-size carousel, take a walk in T-Rex's footprints, pet an Arctic fox, pump gas, drive a bus, dress up and perform, and dig for fossils all in one afternoon!
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Deerfield Ranch Winery
Winery in Sonoma County, CA USA
Family owned winery, makes Clean Wine®, taste in their cave Deerfield Ranch Winery is located in the heart of Sonoma Valley in the small town of Kenwood. It is just an hours drive from the Golden Gate Bridge and the City of San Francisco.
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Hilmar Cheese Company Visitor Center
Tour in Turlock, CA USA
Visit a cheese factory! Tour, taste, shop & eat! Tour, Taste, Shop and Eat at one of the world's largest cheese creameries. Hilmar Cheese Company Visitor Center features a MOOvie and fun, interactive exhibits where you can dress like a cheese maker.
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Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg, CA USA
Garden by the Sea...Jewel of the North Coast As one of the few public gardens in the continental United States with direct ocean frontage, we offer everything from colorful displays to thunderous waves. The mild maritime climate makes us the gardens for all seasons, attracting gardeners and nature lovers alike.
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North Star Mining Museum and Pelton Wheel Exhibit
Museum in Grass Valley, CA USA
Home of the largest working Pelton Wheel ever built We have the most extensive display of mining equipment which can be interpreted in an interactive environment.
Most of our displays are in working order, just as they were back in the 1850's.
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Pinnacles National Monument
National Park in Paicines, CA USA
National Monument Rising out of the chaparral-covered Gabilan Mountains, east of central California's Salinas Valley, are the spectacular remains of an ancient volcano.
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Point Reyes National Seashore
National Park in Point Reyes, CA USA
National Park Point Reyes National Seashore contains unique elements of biological and historical interest in a spectacularly scenic panorama of thunderous ocean breakers, open grasslands, bushy hillsides and forested ridges.
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Pulp Idols
Art Gallery in Canyon Country, CA USA
Pulp Idols is a series of nine new mixed media works on wood produced by Sya Warfield over the past year. In this turbulent time, Warfield has chosen to create portraits of key figures who have effected change within our societies and cultural lives.
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Sierra Railroad Dinner Train
Scenic in Oakdale, CA USA
Tourist Railroad Sierra Railroad Dinner Train offers a unique combination of fine dining and entertainment while traveling through unspoiled countryside in luxurious dining and lounge cars.
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Skunk Train
Excursion in Mendocino, CA USA
Tourist Train The view from the train today is pretty much unchanged: towering trees, deer drinking from the Noyo
River, an isolated cabin peeking from the forest.
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Skunk Train
Tour in Fort Bragg, CA USA
Take a ride on the skunk in its natural habitat All Aboard - one of North America's 10 most scenic railroads. Travel from Fort Bragg or Willits through the Redwood forest of Mendocino County for an unforgettable journey.
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Weekend Scenic Train Rides
Excursion in Fillmore, CA USA
excursion train rides year round Fillmore & Western Railway's Scenic Excursions aboard the "Movie Trains" depart from Fillmore, CA. every Saturday January thru March 13, at noon. Sundays will be added starting March 21.
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Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden
Botanical Garden in Avalon, CA USA
Celebrates Catalina's rare plants in this peaceful sanctuary The Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden is a thirty-minute stroll up Avalon Canyon from town center. Or, take a quick ride by golf cart or bike, or by trolley.
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