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Photos left to right: Pageant of the Masters; Knott’s Berry Farm; Huntington Beach; Calistoga<\/em><\/p>\n When you live in one of the most popular tourist destinations in America, it’s hard to take a break and go on vacation. However, cities in California<\/a>\u00a0are offering residents special trips and excursions to other places, just so they can escape paradise briefly. In our survey of Summer 2013 City Activities, here are some field trips, day trips, and escapes offered by municipalities and parks & recreation departments:<\/p>\n CITY: Where the locals go to get away\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n ALBANY<\/strong>: Oakland Zoo, Luther Burbank Gardens in Santa Rosa, Livermore Outlets, Half Moon Bay, de Young Museum<\/a> in San Francisco, Sunnyvale Art & Wine Festival, Safari West in Santa Rosa and Bolinas Photos left to right: Pageant of the Masters; Knott’s Berry Farm; Huntington Beach; Calistoga When you live in one of the most popular tourist destinations in America, it’s hard to take a break and go on vacation. However, cities in California\u00a0are offering residents special trips and excursions to other places, just so they can escape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nANAHEIM<\/strong>: LA Zoo, Knott’s Berry Far, Soak City, Boomers, Discovery Science Center, Anaheim Ice, Irvine Regional Park
\nARCADIA<\/strong>: Doheny Beach in Dana Point, Raging Waters in San Dimas, Six Flags Valencia, Los Angeles Zoo, Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California Science Center in LA
\nAVALON<\/strong>: Stay on the Island
\nAZUSA<\/strong>: Family Beach Bus Trips to Huntington Beach–bring out your beach towel and beach chair.
\nCONCORD<\/strong>: San Francisco Movie Tours, Calistoga<\/a> and Greystone, Oakdale Chocolate Festival, Colusa Casino, Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco
\nHERMOSA BEACH<\/strong>: Oxnard Salsa Festival, Laguna Arts Festival & Pageant of the Masters<\/a>, Catalina Island<\/a>
\nIRVINE<\/strong>: Artists Studios of Southern California, Getty Villa
\nLA PUENTE<\/strong>: Dodger Stadium
\nSANTA CRUZ<\/strong>: Tiburon & Angel Island (San Francisco)
\nSAN DIEGO<\/strong>: Las Vegas, Laughlin, Palm Springs, Lawrence Welk Resort and Julian
\nSACRAMENTO<\/strong>: Alcatraz, Pier 39, Chinatown, Food Lovers Tour of Fisherman’s Wharf, Sonoma County Fair, Zinfest in Lodi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"