Old Sacramento Street Theater: History Comes Alive

July 4, 2010

If you are working through the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt on a Saturday or Sunday between June 19th and August 29th 2010, you are going to have a chance to step back in time and watch history come alive with the Old Sacramento Street Theater.
Meet Historical Figures
Meet Gold Rush celebrities in person!  Founders of California [...]

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Sacramento Jazz Festival Family Stage Schedule

May 24, 2010

This Friday (May 28th 2010) marks the beginning of the 37th annual Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee.  Four hundred and fifty sets of live music will be served up to Sacramento by seventy bands at twenty four different venues.  Eighteen of these sets will occur on the Family Stage, back in our little corner of [...]

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Win a free pass to the California Automobile Museum

May 17, 2010

Here’s a way to double up on kids activities in Sacramento:  work through the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt and then visit the California Automobile Museum.  We just placed a free pass to the California Automobile Museum into the Trailmix.Net Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt prize box.
  To win, simply be the first to complete the hunt [...]

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Google Map of the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt

May 6, 2010

Need a preview of the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt?  Are you wondering what else there is to see in Old Sacramento besides the historical points of interest and free museums featured in this free walking tour of Old Sac?
Use this handy Google Map to scope out each scavenger hunt step as well as locate more [...]

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Live from Old Sacramento

May 5, 2010

One of the things that we do at Trailmix.Net in addition to creating scavenger hunts is invite authors, educators, and leaders of non-profits into our store and ask them how their product, service, idea, or organization can help parents tap into the educational potential of backyards, state parks, national parks and other public lands.
We recently added a [...]

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Another Sugar Bowl Lift Ticket

February 10, 2010

It’s that time again, rain in Sacramento means snow in the Sierra’s.  We placed another Sugar Bowl lift ticket in the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt treasure box this morning (2/10/10 – 10:30 am).  The first hunter to find it becomes the new owner!
If you want to be the first to hear about special prizes that [...]

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The Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt on Trippingwithkids.com

January 28, 2010

Do you know the feeling where you’ve been somewhere half a bugillion times and then one day you discover things that had been there all along and you never even saw them before? That was my day today, thanks to a cool new outdoor store in Sacramento called Trailmix.
Read the Full Where To Wednesday Article [...]

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We're #7 on the Mix 96 – Sacramento Magazine 96 Best Free Things to do in Sacramento

December 22, 2009

Sacramento magazine and Mix 96 made a list of the 96 Best Free things to do in Sacramento. The Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt weighed in at #7. You can Read more here.

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Prize Alert: Sugarbowl Lift Ticket

December 5, 2009

We just dropped a free full day lift ticket to Sugarbowl Ski Resort into the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt prize box.Â
Time of drop:  Saturday December 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM.  Available to the first person to complete the hunt and find it in the box (it’s buried, you might need to dig a little).Â
Happy Hunting!
Insiders [...]

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If you liked the Old Sacramento Scavenger Hunt you are going to LOVE the Yosemite National Park Scavenger Hunt

November 21, 2009

The Yosemite National Park Scavenger Hunt is an educational expedition that will lead your family on an unforgettable adventure in the Yosemite Valley.

This thirty two page, full color booklet is more than a guidebook and map. It’s story about a mysterious journal that was discovered in Washington DC. The journal is over 100 years old [...]

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