Where to Wednesday: Lake Solano Park
With kids being out of school all week, a few families joined together for a picnic at Lake Solano Park. This is an area near the city of Winters that is great for first time camping. It is not far from the Sacramento area and has some nice hiking trails and playground equipment as well. There is a visitor’s center that is, likely for budget reasons, only open sporadically.
I have been looking for a place that really screams fall to me, and I think I couldn’t get any better than here. A mass of running kindergarteners shedding their jackets to enjoy the late morning sun, brilliant colors being reflected off of a small fish pond near the lake, and toddlers collecting acorns for their stuffed animals back home. How does an autumn morning get any better?
We have camped at Lake Solano and had a great time! It close enough to Sacramento and Davis to go on a friday after work but feels far enough away to give you that vacation feeling.