Free & Cheap Things to Do with Kids
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Amador County Museum
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Detert Park
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Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park
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Kennedy Gold Mine Tours
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Italian Picnic Grounds
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Butte Store
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Sutter Creek Visitor Center
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Lake Tabeaud
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Roaring Camp Mining Company
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Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
State park preserving Native history. Historic park with replica Miwok Indian village structures, a museum & bark house camping sites.
Black Chasm Cavern National Natural Landmark
Cave with rock & crystal formations. Subterranean cave featuring stalactites, stalagmites & crystal outcrops, with tours & activities.
Calaveras County Museum and Historical Society
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McLaughlin's Daffodil Hill
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California Cavern State Historic Landmark
Stalactites, stalagmites & flowstones. Extensive cave system open for walking tours of limestone rock formations & underground lakes.
Hovey Winery Tasting Room
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Murphys Community Park
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Angels Camp Museum
Museum of local history & gold mining. Museum featuring indoor & outdoor exhibits on local history, including gold mining & farming.
Gold Rush Originals
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Free Halloween Fun
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Moaning Caverns Adventure Park
Adventurous tours of a natural cavern. Rappelling & walking tours offered at a 165-foot-deep natural cavern with above-ground zip lines.
Coyote Creek Cave
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Natural Bridges Trailhead
Hiking area with swimming caves. Scenic, riverside hiking area featuring a trail leading to natural pools & swimming caverns.
Glory Hole Recreation Area
Lakeside park with campgrounds & more. Waterfront park with campgrounds, trails, visitor center & amphitheater, plus fishing & boating.
Apple Hill
Information on tickets, events & dining. Visitor center with guidance on a region with cider tasting on apple farms, restaurants & breweries.
NorCal Aquarium and Wildlife
Hands-on animal park with rays & sloths. Up-close encounters & feeding sessions in a zoo home to stingrays, capybaras & two-toed sloths.
Mark Twain Cabin
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Folsom Kids Play Park (Castle Park)
Big play structures & picnic areas. Park featuring a large, castle-themed playground with climbing equipment, swings & picnic tables.
Columbia State Historic Park
Preserved Gold Rush-era landmark town. Costumed reenactors demonstrate life in the 1850s, with tours, stagecoach rides & panning for gold.
Fun Zone Arcade
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Folsom Valley Railway
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Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary
Compact zoo with an educational focus. Quaint zoo with an educational bent providing sanctuary to varied animals, from monkeys to tigers.
Folsom City Lions Park
City park known for events & baseball. City park with a playground, baseball field, pavilion & butterfly garden next door to the zoo.
Folsom History Museum
Museum of native & prospecting history. The history of the area's native peoples & the gold boom that made it famous is told at this museum.
Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park
Tours of a historic electrical station. Historic landmark with tours of the first distribution point for a major city's electricity (1895).
Gold Discovery Museum
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Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
Gold Rush birthplace with gold panning. Replica of the sawmill that spawned the Gold Rush, 20+ historic mining buildings & gold panning.
Sacramento Children's Museum
Interactive kids' museum for under-8s. Open since 2011, a museum for kids aged 8 and under which runs interactive events & activities.
Dragoon Gulch Trail Head
Oak woodland with hiking trails. A 2.5-mile hiking trail system looping through 35 acres of scenic oak woodland.
Tuolumne County Veterans Hall And Museum
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Tuolumne County Museum
County history exhibits in a former jail. Photos, antiques & artifacts on county history & the California Gold Rush, displayed in an old jail.
Gold Prospecting Adventures
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The Motherlode Escape Rooms
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Heaven For Kids Playground
Wooden play equipment & a skate pak. Popular spot with wooden play structures for young & older kids, a skate park & picnic tables.
California Gold Panning
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Indigeny Reserve
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Effie Yeaw Nature Center
Exhibits & live animals plus trails. This attraction offers educational exhibits & over a dozen indigenous animals, plus 3 nature trails.
Jensen Botanical Garden
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Arcade Creek Park Preserve
Well-equipped natural park on a creek. Natural park on a creek with play & fitness equipment, trails & shaded picnic tables.
Carmichael Park
Dog park, sports fields & picnic spots. 38-acre park offering an off-leash area, sports fields & courts, a picnic shelter & a bandshell.
Hillsborough Park
Local sporting, picnic & play center. Neighborhood site offering ballfields, a basketball court & areas for picnicking & kids' play.
Cosumnes River Preserve
Wetland area with trails & wildlife. Wetland walking trails, a boardwalk with a wildlife viewing deck & a visitor's center with tours.
Stock Ranch Nature Preserve
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Knights Ferry Recreation Area
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Maidu Museum & Historic Site
Exhibits, tours & historic petroglyphs. This Maidu museum features interactive exhibits, tours & trails with historic petroglyphs & mortars.
Llamas of Circle Home
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Scandia Fun Center
Amusement complex with rides & mini-golf. Outdoor amusement center offering rides, mini-golf, go-karts & batting cages, plus an indoor arcade.
Roseville Golfland Sunsplash
Long-running choice for mini golf & more. Amusement chain featuring mini golf courses & arcades, some branches with water slides & laser tag.
Royer Park
Picnicking, playing & a kids' art center. Home to the Children's Art Center, the space also has picnic & play areas as well as horseshoe pits.
Quarry Park Adventures
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Carnegie Museum
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Children's Museum of Stockton
Museum with interactive exhibits. Museum with more than 40 interactive exhibits & an art studio for kids.
Johnson-Springview Park
Large green space with play & dog areas. This expansive community resource features sport courts & fields, a playground & a dog park.
Round1 Bowling & Arcade Westfield Galleria at Roseville
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The Cowboy Museum
Local exhibits on ranching & rodeo life. Western history museum with a gift shop & exhibits exploring the area's ranching & rodeo traditions.
Griffith Quarry Park & Museum
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Locke Boarding House Museum State Park
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Railhead Park
Picnicking, soccer fields & a playground. Multipurpose park with 2 large soccer fields & a playground, plus a picnic shelter, trails & a pond.
Oakdale Museum & History Center
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Overlook Park
Scenic natural area with a skate park. Picturesque recreation spot with a skate park, trails for hiking & horseback riding & canyon views.
Recreation Park
Community park with a swimming pool. Community park with playgrounds, a swimming pool, ball fields & a basketball court.
Bernhard Museum
Local museum in a hotel built in 1851. Museum of life in the mid-19th-century in an old hotel, with artifacts & furnishings from that era.
Placer County Museum
Local artifacts in a historic courthouse. Museum in a courthouse exploring county history, with Native American artifacts & a gold collection.
Black Hole of Calcutta Falls
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Wacky Tacky
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The Gold Rush Museum
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Funderland Amusement Park
Amusement park with 10 attractions. Opened in 1946, this amusement park features 10 rides & attractions, plus a food & drink stand.
William Land Regional Park
Greenspace with a zoo & a golf course. Sizable park offering many amenities, including a zoo, amphitheater, golf course & ball fields.
Fairytale Town
Long-standing kid-focused park. Enduring kid-friendly park featuring a storybook theme, animals for petting, gardens & a cafe.
Black Hole of Calcutta Falls Trailhead
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Auburn State Park Kiosk
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Roseville Utility Exploration Center
Playful spot for environmental education. Learning center with creative exhibits on sustainability topics such as energy & water conservation.
California State Railroad Museum
Antique locomotives, rides & more. Colorful museum documenting railroad history via vintage locomotives, exhibits & rides.
Jacob Myers Park
Picnicking, camping, fishing & hiking. Green space offering a boat ramp, camping area & fishing, plus a picnic gazebo, playground & trails.
SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity
Hands-on, kid-centric exhibits & more. Interactive, kid-friendly science center featuring exhibits, after school & summer programs.
Auburn State Recreation Area
Hiking trails & river recreation. Large park on the American River with extensive hiking trails, whitewater boating & gold panning.
Dinos Alive - The Immersive Experience - Sacramento
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Northgate Park
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