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California Gold Rush: A Self-Guided Cycling Tour around the Sacramento Grid

California Gold Rush: A Self-Guided Cycling Tour around the Sacramento Grid

Overview

How did Sacramento come to be California's capital city?

What was the city's founder, a Swiss named Johann Sutter, doing here in what once was Spanish territory?

How did his efforts to expand a fort here at the confluence of two rivers lead to the discovery of gold and the rush to come get it?

Learn the answers and more by taking this 2-hour self-guided GPS tour by bicycle. Bikes can be rented in Old Sacramento at Practical Cycle. Also, at bike racks throughout the city from a bike share program lock them if you leave them. The tour departs and finishes at the Capitol, stopping along the way at markers and structures that tell us about the founding of this city and the Gold Rush of 1849.

The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.

City: Sacramento

Tue 17 Sep

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Starting at $8.30

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Tue 17 Sep

Starting at $8.30

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What's Included

VoiceMap Application

Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

Lifetime access to California Gold Rush: the Sacramento Grid by Bicycle tour

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
All of VoiceMap's audio tours are self-guided and users must bring their own smartphone and headphones to take the tour. We urge all our users to wear facemasks and carry hand sanitizer with them to ensure they're own protection and the protection of others.

What To Expect

California State Capitol Museum

The California State Capitol Museum consists of a museum in and grounds around the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, USA. The building has been the home of the California State Legislature since 1869. The State Capitol Museum has been a property in the California State Parks system since 1982.

Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park

After successfully petitioning the Mexican territorial government for a land grant, John Sutter built a fort in 1839. He did not know what to expect from the natives in the area so he built a protective fort with walls 16 feet high and 3 feet thick.

California State Indian Museum

The California State Indian Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, United States, interpreting the diverse cultures of the indigenous peoples of California.

California State Railroad Museum

The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, USA, interpreting the role of the "iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation. It is located in Old Sacramento at 111 I Street.

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Reviews (2)

Rebekah_T

Apr 2022

There were no bikes only scooters Available to rent and the recording was out of sink. Also it was sad to see so many crazy homeless people at the spots it sent us too. I didn’t want my child to see scary people with such sad situations while trying to take a needed vacation.

Martha

May 2021

I have done similar tours in other cities and this was so disappointing. We couldn't stop and start the app. The app froze and we couldn't start over. I would like a refund.

Response from Host

May 2021

Hi Martha, We're really sorry you had such a frustrating experience. We've issued a refund. You should be notified by Viator. It looks like there were two issues here, and they combined to make using the app extremely difficult: 1. Android 11 has changed how we get permission to use your location and we've spotted – and now fixed – a bug that you experienced when you tried to resume the tour. 2. This tour's first and final location are in the same place, and the app confused the start of the tour with the end of the tour. We've also fixed this, not just for the Gold Rush tour, but through an audit of all tours with first and final locations that are close together. It seems like your disappointment was entirely justified, but it is worth saying that the majority of our users love VoiceMap and we have an average rating of 4.6/5 from over 8,000 ratings. This is partly because we value feedback like this, and we act on it as quickly as possible. So thanks Martha. I hope you'll try VoiceMap again at some stage!