El Cerrito Attractions. El Cerrito Tourism and kids attractions

Napa Valley Wine Train: All aboard for good food, wine and views Some of the world’s best wines, restaurants and vineyard scenery are found in the Napa Valley. The wines measure up against the best from France, the concentration of award-winning restaurants is what you’d expect only in major cities, and it’s hard to top the views of neatly rowed vineyards and forested hillsides. The Napa Valley Wine Train fuses all three of these glories of Napa’s Wine Country into one as it rolls down the tracks. Read More >>

San Francisco Waterfront: Working piers then, walking piers now The downtown San Francisco waterfront once bustled with the arrivals and departures of ships and the longshoremen who unloaded them and filled the waterfront bars at quitting time. The bustle hasn’t left, but it’s changed. Now it’s office workers and tourists who fill the bars and the ships are the commuter ferries, party boats and cruise ships who transport them. Read More >>

RocketBoat: Are you ready to rumble? Many vessels prowl San Francisco Bay, but none are even remotely like the RocketBoat. Fast? Sure, it hits a top speed of 50 mph. But better than fast, it’s FUN in ALL CAPS, with lots of weaving, swerving and U-turn “donuts,” much of it around the bay’s slower boats. And the entire half-hour, open-air ride is accompanied by a loud, classic rock-and-roll soundtrack. Read More >>

Cable Cars: Halfway to the stars (and a cable car museum) If you’ve ever tried walking or even driving up San Francisco’s steepest hills, you know that even today, cable cars fill a need. But they’re also an exhilarating blast of fun, whatever your age, especially if you sit on or stand above the outward-facing benches on the edges of the cars. Read More >>

Chabot Space and Science Center: Front Row to the Stars Did you know that the sun has the mass of 332,900 earths? Or that our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago? If not, you may be due for a trek to the Chabot Space and Science Center. Read More >>

Golden Gate Bridge: San Francisco's signature sight Opened in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge is among the best known and most photographed bridges in the world and is often called the most popular tourist destination in the United States. Read More >>

Lovers Point Park: A natural haven by Monterey Bay Lovers Point Park is one of the crowning highlights of Pacific Grove, a place infused with natural beauty. Swimmers, surfers, kayakers, and divers all flock to the sandy beach at the edge of the 4.4-acre park for recreation in the Monterey Bay. The clear Pacific waters here are part of the nation’s largest marine sanctuary, where deep underwater canyons abound with kelp forests, fish, harbor seals, sea lions, and even blue whales. Read More >>

Bay kayaking: Where to paddle in paradise Thanks to a climate conducive to outdoor activity in all four seasons and an outdoor sports-mad populace, kayaking in San Francisco Bay has been popular for decades. Fortunately you don’t need to invest in another big piece of sports equipment to cram into the garage to take up kayaking. Not just tourists, but many locals regularly rent kayaks at seven locations on San Francisco, Richardson and Tomales Bays; Corte Madera Creek and the Pacific Ocean. Read More >>

SFMOMA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Too many people think that modern art is incomprehensible art. You know, like the all-white or all-gray painting that conveys the dull emptiness of human existence. But that kind of art—Minimalist Abstract Expressionism, or as I like to call it, Silly Art That Even I Could Create—occupies only a few of the 50 gallery rooms inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Most of this museum’s art is far more absorbing. Read More >>

Historic Paramount Theatre: The last West Coast movie palace When the glamorous world of film and motion pictures captivated the American imagination in the 1920s, movie houses around the country were built like palaces, as dramatic as the movies shown within their walls. The Paramount Theatre in Oakland was the last of the palaces built on the West Coast. Read More >>