Outdoors
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge gives Glenn County an easy loop
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge gives Glenn County a six-mile auto tour through wetlands, grasslands, vernal pools, and riparian habitat.
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Outdoors
Sacramento River Bend is Tehama County's quiet outdoor spine
Sacramento River Bend near Red Bluff gives Tehama County a river, oak, wildlife, and trail anchor that feels specific to the northern Sacramento Valley.
History and culture
Sacramento's Railyards is a project area, not one finished attraction
The 244-acre Railyards is a long-term redevelopment area north of downtown; project maps show approved possibilities, not a list of places already open.
History and culture
Salvation Mountain turns desert paint into folk art
Salvation Mountain near Niland is Leonard Knight's bright desert folk-art environment, built over decades with adobe, hay bales, donated paint, and a simple message.
History and culture
San Bernardino helped turn a drive-in into a fast-food model
San Bernardino is where the McDonald brothers opened their early restaurant and later refined the Speedee Service System that shaped modern fast food.
History and culture
San Bernardino's Wigwam Village keeps Route 66 playful
Wigwam Village No. 7 in San Bernardino is a Route 66 motel landmark, with cone-shaped rooms, roadside design, National Register status, and a vivid travel-era look.
History and culture
San Diego's first bay light sat a little too high
Old Point Loma Lighthouse is a San Diego landmark with a useful twist: the pretty high perch also made fog a real problem for ships.
History and culture
San Fernando kept its own city identity inside the Valley
San Fernando is the oldest city in the valley that bears its name, with Mission City roots, railroad growth, and a long independent identity.
History and culture
San Gabriel's Mission District carries water, civic, and mission layers
San Gabriel's Mission District ties together Mission San Gabriel, the restored millrace, civic buildings, the Mission Playhouse, and the route story behind Los Angeles.
Outdoors
San Joaquin Marsh gives Irvine a quiet wetland walk with firm rules
San Joaquin Marsh adds a calm wetland side to Irvine, with walking trails, wildlife viewing, and clear rules that keep the place from feeling like a regular park.
History and culture
San Jose helped give computers a memory they could reach fast
IBM's RAMAC work in San Jose produced the first computer to use a random-access disk drive, long before data storage became an everyday phrase.
History and culture
San Jose's Winchester House is strange even before the ghost stories
The Winchester Mystery House grew from an eight-room farmhouse into a huge, unusual San Jose mansion tied to Sarah Winchester's long building project.
History and culture
San Juan Bautista puts mission and plaza history side by side
San Juan Bautista State Historic Park and the nearby mission make a small town feel like a crossroads of Native, Spanish, Mexican, American, and travel history.
History and culture
San Juan Capistrano's swallows made a mission town famous
Mission San Juan Capistrano is tied to Orange County history and the annual Return of the Swallows tradition.
Outdoors
San Luis Reservoir is both a park day and a water-project clue
Near Los Banos, San Luis Reservoir is a state recreation area and a major offstream reservoir tied to California's water system.
History and culture
Sanger's Christmas Tree City name points up toward Grant Grove
Sanger's identity as the Nation's Christmas Tree City comes from its long link to the General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon country.
Rules and licenses
Santa Ana's civic center has several different counters
County records, tax payments, court business, and assessed-value questions do not all go to the same Santa Ana building.
History and culture
Santa Clara keeps the tiny-chip story close to home
Intel's 4004 began as a calculator project and became an early microprocessor story tied closely to Santa Clara and Silicon Valley.
History and culture
Santa Clarita has a silent-film star's hilltop home
William S. Hart Park and Museum keeps Santa Clarita's western film history tied to a real Newhall home instead of stopping at movie posters and street names.
History and culture
Santa Fe Depot shows San Bernardino's rail city side
San Bernardino's Santa Fe Depot gives the city a clear railroad landmark, a museum stop, and a reminder that its location has long mattered for movement.
History and culture
Santa Maria barbecue is a ranch-town food story
Santa Maria-style barbecue connects the city to ranch gatherings, red oak fire, beef, pinquito beans, Central Coast foodways, and a local style that still feels tied to place.
History and culture
Santa Paula keeps California's oil story on Main Street
Santa Paula's former Union Oil headquarters shows how oil, agriculture, downtown buildings, and Ventura County history came together.
History and culture
Santa Rosa is where Peanuts found a long home
Charles M. Schulz lived in Santa Rosa for decades, and the museum there keeps Peanuts tied to the city where much of his later life and work took shape.
History and culture
Seal Beach's wooden pier is the old-town anchor
Seal Beach is known for its 1.5 miles of beach, Old Town Main Street, and a long wooden pier that anchors the town center.