Broadway Market Deli

A resort-style lodge a mile from the Plaza: pool, cabanas, lawn games, and a published family-and-kids activities program - walking distance to TrainTown.

A quarter-scale steam train that takes twenty minutes to loop through tunnels and over bridges, plus a small petting zoo and a few fairground rides. Built for under-eights.

Thin-crust New Haven-style pizza half a block off the Plaza: fast, family-priced, and patio-seated - the easy Sonoma dinner with kids.

The playground inside Sonoma's historic plaza: two age-split structures, a sand pit for castle-building, duck pond, and huge shade trees - with cheese shops, bakeries, and ice cream ringing the square.