Sacramento Zoo

Sacramento Zoo
3930 West Land Park Drive Sacramento, CA 95822 Phone: (916) 808-5888
www.saczoo.com
Hours: Winter Hours (Nov-Jan):10am-4pm daily. Feb-Oct. 9am-4pm daily.
Fees: Adults $7.50/$8 weekends. Seniors: $6.75/$7.25 weekends. Child 3-12 $5.00/$5.50 weekends. Kids 0-2: Free.
Free days: Feb. 3, 2007, Nov. 23, 2007, Dec. 24, 2007.
Take I-5. Exit Sutterville Road. Go to Land Park Drive. Follow signs to Zoo parking.

The Sacramento Zoo is a great community zoo. It has lots of animals and you can see them all without walking acres and acres. They have chimpanzees, lions, tigers, lemurs, zebras, giraffes, anteaters, kangaroos, and more! Plenty to see. There is a great playground for the kids to play on as well. Great places to eat and a gift stop to buy something for you to remember your trip to the Sacramento zoo!

Maidu Interpretive Center Museum

Maidu Interpretive Center and Historic Site Museum
1960 Johnson Ranch Drive 
Roseville, CA 95661
Phone: (916) 774-5934
website: http://www.roseville.ca.us/parks/parks_n_facilities/facilities/maidu_indian_museum/
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 9am - 4pm.
Daily Tours: Tuesday-Friday: 10am & Saturdays: 10am & 1:00pm
Fees: $4/Adult, $3.75/Child,$14/Family of Four.
Free Admission on the fourth Saturday of the month (except July & August).
Weekday Afternoon Discount:Tues-Fri $2/person 2pm - 4pm.

Take I 80 to Douglas East. East on Douglas to Rocky Ridge. Turn right (south) on Rocky Ridge. Watch for Johnson Ranch Drive sign. Turn left onto Johnson Ranch Drive (no light or stop sign there). If you get to the Maidu Community Center signal you went one street to far, make a turn around in the community center parking lot and go back one street. The Maidu Interpretive Center is the next building past the Maidu Elementary School.

The Maidu Interpretive Center and Historic Site has a great nature area that offers a loop trail that takes you past ancient petroglyphs (rock art) and hundreds of bedrock mortars (acorn grinding holes). It shows evidence of the Nisenan (southern Maidu) living there for thousands of years. Inside the museum you'll see exhibits portraying the Maidu way of life, rocks, food, and clothing from that time. Taking the tours brings a new light into the way the Maidu lived and what they ate (very healthy). There is also a great biking/walking trail that goes outside of the Maidu Center around by the elementary school.