Sacramento

A Short Drive Away:

• Glory Hole (35.6 miles)
• Apple Hill Visitors Center (40.3 miles)
• Angel Island (California) (74.7 miles)
• Alcatraz Island (76.2 miles)
• Emerald Bay State Park (76.2 miles)
• Pioneer Park (San Francisco) (76.8 miles)
• Coit Tower (76.8 miles)
• Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (76.8 miles)
• Ina Coolbrith Park (77.3 miles)
• Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park (78 miles)

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