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Highlighted classes and field trips

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Find science, history, and nature classes and activities for all ages.

Children practice milking cows using wooden cow substitutes.
Grades K–6+

School field trips

Learn about nature and history
Park Ranger Operations
7-12 year olds

Junior Park Rangers

Become a Junior Ranger
A group of college students and Park rangers inspect a grassy hillside with large tree in the background and gold flowers in the foreground.
18+

Climate Stewards

Become a Climate Steward
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Highlighted historical and cultural sites

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Join us at a museum or historical site and learn about the Silicon Valley before it was a tech hub.

The interior of the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum with photos of the old mine on the wall and an 3D exhibit of minor with his tools.

Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum

Experience the history of California's first and richest mine.

Learn about the Mining Museum
Bernal ranch house and family in 1910

Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch

See life on a a ranch more than 100 years ago.

Learn about Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch
Small redwood building that display exhibits about tribal culture with a Parks interpretive panel in front in Chitactac-Adams Heritage park.

Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park

Learn about the tribes who have lived here for thousands of years.

Learn about Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park
Image of grant ranch house

Grant House

Tour the historic ranch house.

Learn about Grant House
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Highlighted guided tours

Take a boat tour of the bay or meet up with park guides to learn about local ecosystems or history. Drop into a visitor center for nature crafts or gather for an evening campfire program. There's something for everyone.

A group people ride an open-deck boat touring the marshlands of Alviso Marina County park.

Tour the bay's wetlands

Take a boat tour
A Park Interpreter shows an image of a slender salamander to park visitors in a redwood forest.

Guided tours and activities

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