I finally visited Sacramento for the first time last April and I really appreciated the awesome street grid and tree canopy throughout much of Midtown (extending north & south) and East Sacramento. The Capitol grounds were lovely too! I hate heat (and strong summer sun) so it would be a challenge for me to live there but I was definitely impressed after my visit this past spring. :tup:
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Great photos! I've been driving *through* Sacramento like once or twice a year since about 2012 or 2013 when my sister and her family moved to Chico, but I haven't actually stopped in/explored Sacramento since about the mid-two thousand aughts. My sister's in-laws also live in a "suburb" of Sacramento, if Granite Bay counts as a Sacramento suburb.
Sacramento is nice. Great food scene as I recall. Brutally hot summers though, just like Chico and Granite Bay. Sacramento summer heat is somehow not the same as say, Palm Springs summer heat, though both seem equally hot, yet somehow Palm Springs is more comfortable (only slightly more). Dryer desert heat, maybe? |
I was just in Sacramento two years ago. Lovely city. I really enjoyed it, albeit, my visit was brief. It reminds me of Boise in a lot of ways in how the area is shaped. Downtown is off-center to the long metro area. Obviously Sacramento has taller buildings, but, they both seemingly have been victim to squatty, very even leveled skylines. In no way does that detract from the great downtown core, just an observation.
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I'm a Sac native. Nice photos. Aside from JKL corridors, Downtown still feels sleepy but it's gotten better over the years since the arena opened and more residential housing have been built. There are more housing and hotels under construction, which will liven the area.
Sac will probably never see the 20+ residential towers or the 40 story office towers that have popped up in similar markets. I wish the State could have built Sac's tallest when they constructed the Natural Resource building. They could have cut the bulkness by adding height to the structure, resulting in a slimmer tower. I don't know whether we will see a new tallest for the city. Everything that gets built here is under 400 feet, considering there isn't any height restrictions like Phoenix or San Jose. |
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Great photos! I lived in Sacramento (midtown) from 2001 - 2002. It took some time but I came to like the city. There was fun nightlight (Tower Club) and great outdoor activities like the American River bike trail and the proximity to fantastic mountain biking around Auburn.
The city, itself, however, does feel a little sleepy. |
Been visiting Sacramento on and off for the last 15 years since I have family there. Certainly a sleepy, primarily suburban metro area, but not without it charms! Midtown and East Sacramento are lovely lower density urban areas, the new arena is nice and has K Street's pedestrian mall moving in the right direction, the railyards could be interesting, and I really like what they are doing down on R Street. Curtis Park and Land Park are some really charming older suburbs. I'm also a sucker for the Railroad Museum :P
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Great tour! Sacramento definitely has a lot of potential. Hopefully it continues growing in the right direction. Will have to check it out myself one of these days. Perhaps fall or spring would be better times to avoid the heat.
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Plinko, you have a great eye. Love the photos.
Sacramento is not everyone's cup of tea, but the older parts of the city are filled with Victorian, Edwardian, and Craftsman (and modern) buildings, a lot of good restaurants, fun and random bars, a lush tree canopy, and top notch bike trails. It's California's only major 'river city' (two rivers, actually), with a more mellow pace and lower population densities than the state's coastal cities. Up until recently it was also relatively affordable. I can't really explain why it hasn't grown bigger than it already is. |
Nice pictures! I like that building with the Asian roof! I always notice that ziggurat building, too!
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Nice tour and captions! I drove through Sacramento last summer and spent a little time driving around downtown. I liked the Capitol area and the very distinctive bridge plus enjoyed seeing several 1920's vintage buildings (along J & K Streets). But other wise it was hard to get a good feel for it. Although the tall buildings do vary in design from one another, somehow the Sacramento skyline reminds me of a suburban office area outside Chicago or someplace like Roslyn or Ballston, VA.
Hopefully, someday they can place I-5 in a tunnel so it won't create such a wedge between downtown and the river/Old Sacramento. I saw the photo with Amtrak--do they run regular commuter-style trains to the Bay Area. I would think that would do well and, if it could be upgraded to bullet-train speed, could attract residents to dwtn Sacramento who work in the Bay Area. |
Nice I like the last two photos overlooking the city from the foothills. It’s not exactly a place I want to live but I definitely can see how it is a nice area to live. I did interview for a state job there and the wife and I was looking around just in case we had to relocate, we decided mid-town Sacramento would be our choice of neighborhoods to live in. It reminded us most of something like the Bay Area or even an LA neighborhood.
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Sacramento got the vibes from a combination of Stockton CA and Austin TX, and I wonder why Sacramento didn't go developing and booming like Austin.
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It’s fairly early to explain Sacramento relative slow grow compared to say Austin and other cities- it’s proximity to San Francisco and the Bay Area sucks up the energy and attention. It’s not far enough away to be regarded as the chief city of a major region. But it’s also not close enough to the Bay Area to benefit from it’s expansion.
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