Suites at the edge of Capitol Park.
A solar-system playground built so kids of every ability can use it, with ramps, spinners and separate areas for babies, preschoolers and big kids. There's a pond with fishing piers too.
A burger place on R Street with its own beer for you and plain burgers, grilled cheese and hot dogs on the kids' menu.
A big art museum that actually plans for kids: Tot Land downstairs is for play, books and making things, and there are loaner strollers at the door.
Free tours of the Capitol itself, with lawns outside for the kids to run on.
A small, walkable zoo tucked into Land Park, with giraffes you can feed from a raised deck and a carousel. Fairytale Town and Funderland are right across the street.
Huge restored locomotives to walk right into, a sleeping car that rocks like it is moving, and a big Thomas train table for the smallest fans.
Gold Rush Sacramento in Old Sacramento, and the people who run the Underground Tours of the buried streets below it. The tour is the part school-age kids remember.
