close to downtown, a nice place to contemplate your next vacation or upcoming baseball season If you are bike riding very close to Old Town and Discovery Park.

Thank you Sacramento for making this a public place. It is an excellent way to get out on the water without a boat. The intake building is out in the river channel and you can walk out on it like a pier.

This one is just a go by and look, done in a few minutes. Still cool to see. One can see the large pumps where the water is sucked out of the river for the Sacramento water supply.

If you are into the bike trails - this is a great place to stop and take a rest. Nice view of the river - peaceful and serene.

You would never know what this place is...ultra modern steel/glass architecture - a lot of glass to see the generators at work...like looking through a glass wall in a small brew house. Good walking trail along the river or drive to it..you can see it...More

The City's new intake is architecturally intriguing -- a dragonfly theme. From the intake in the Sacramento River, one can look north to the confluence of the Sac and the American Rivers, often littered with boats. The historic diversion facility is also upstream. Look south...More

This location is a point of ethereal dynamic stability-- a focal point whereat the ssolidity of reality is afloat on the surface of the fluidity of unreality. A fine place for a picnic lunch, take some pictures, or truck down into Old Sac for a...More