Sutters Fort, Sacramento

Sutters Fort is located in midtown Sacramento between K and L Streets and 26th and 28th Streets. On Monday – Saturday, bring quarters for the parking meters. Parking is free on Sundays. Adults $4, Youth $2 (ages 6 to 17) and Children under 5 are free. This is a pretty interesting place for the older kid group. You can walk through the fort and see what things may have looked like in the gold miner days.

Special Events: The Saturday night before Thanksgiving Sutter’s Fort puts on a show where all the visitors go back into time, before the Gold Rush. You see real people from history. Blacksmith, trappers or a doctor talk of rumors of gold in them thar hills. You experience exactly what it was like to be there living in Sutter’s Fort. After that you are treated to hot cider and desert.