Trips & Tours

For over twenty years, the City of Sacramento has offered a highly successful recreation adult travel program. Enjoy site-seeing, shopping, dining and entertainment with us. Trips vary from affordable day trips to 10 day excursions. Transportation and accommodation fees are included in the trip cost.

Contact

Trips & Tours
Hart Senior Center
915 27th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone (916) 808-5462

Registration and participation waiver

Extended trips with Collette Travel

Ironstone Vineyards (2024) CLOSED

Saturday, April 6, 2024 - $139

Nestled against the Sierra Foothills, in the heart of California’s scenic Gold Rush Country, enjoy an exclusive private tour of our facility and finish off with a private grand luncheon in the Culinary Center/ Music Room. The tour includes: the Heritage Museum where the 44-pound crystalline gold nugget is on display; the outdoor amphitheater, site of our summer concert series; the beautiful Lakeside Park; the 400-foot long arbor and covered bridge; the Wine Caves and Breezeway; the awesome Culinary Center where our demo kitchen is located; and the Music Room housing the Alhambra Theatre Organ. Free time after this delightful to visit the gift shop, the wine shop, pan for gold or just sit among the beautiful flowers!

Pick up locations:
7:30am - North Natomas Community Park
8:00am - Arden Way 8:30am - Belle Cooledge Library

Empire State Historic Park (2024)

Thursday, May 16, 2024 - $88

Take a trip back in time to the late 1800s as you visit the Empire Mine State Historical Park in Grass Valley. It’s is one of the largest, richest and longest operating gold mines in California. The Garden tour is only available in spring, so enjoy a stroll through the roses and smell spring in the air. The Cottage was the 1890s country estate home of William Bourn, Jr. It included a greenhouse, gardens, fountains and a reflecting pool. (The interior of the home can only be visited on a docent tour.) The park's museum contains a scale model of the underground workings of the Empire/Star mine complex. After lunch, enjoy free time to tour the museum and mine yard on your own. Lunch is a traditional pastie, the Cornish lunch of Miners from Cornwell, England. (Make your choice when registering- Beef, Chicken, Vegetable. Pasties are a sandwich type of pot pie.)

Pick up locations:
7:30am - North Natomas Community Park
8:00am - Arden Way 8:30am - Belle Cooledge Library

Filoli Gardens

Sunday, July 21 - $135

The treasured Filoli estate with its renowned gardens and grand 20th century mansion is the picture of Old World grandeur, gentility, and serenity. Filoli was built in 1917 for William Bowers Bourne II, heir to California’s Empire Mine gold fortune. Though William and his wife, Agnes, thought of Filoli as a humble country place. This lavish estate consists of a 36,000 square foot Georgian lavish country mansion and a 16 acre English garden. The estate is the last of its kind dating back to when San Francisco’s richest families built to dazzle. Enjoy a tour of the country house and an introduction to the gardens. What is especially in bloom in July? ROSES! During the summer, more than 500 rose bushes, representing 150 varieties, burst into bloom at Filoli. Enjoy some lunch in the Café or bring your own lunch and eat in the picnic area.

Deadline to register:
Thursday, June 27

Pick up locations:
7:30am - North Natomas Regional Park
8:00am - Belle Cooledge Library

Potomac & Western Railway Museum

Sunday, August 4th - Price TBD

The Presidential Yacht Potomac served President Franklin Delano Roosevelt until his death in 1945. The ship provided a venue for important meetings and receptions, including hosting the King and Queen of England on the “first ever” historic visit of a reigning King and Queen British monarch to the United States. Enjoy a dockside tour of this National Historic Landmark. (The Presidential Yacht Potomac is a historically preserved vessel. As such, it does not fully comply with the facility access standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ship allows limited access for the mobility impaired. Wheelchair access is limited to the main deck only.) After an informative tour, we will depart Oakland and arrive at the Western Railway Museum. This museum is home to a collection of more than 50 authentic historic streetcars and interurban electric trains from all over California and western U.S.

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