Where a car takes you from Sacramento
These are the day trips from Sacramento on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Apple Hill (Camino, Placerville) Apple Hill near Placerville: the growers, founded in 1964 by 16 apple ranches, now count over 50 family farms, bakeshops and wineries, busy in October
- Amador County Wine Country Amador Wine Country in the Sierra Nevada foothills has over 60 wineries and 150-year-old vines, and is known for dry-farmed old-vine Zinfandel
- Sutter Creek Wine Country Sutter Creek in Amador County has wine tasting rooms on Main Street, Miller Wine Works and its cheese shoppe among them, minutes from the Shenandoah V
- Davis Farmers Market The Davis Farmers Market fills Central Park at 301 C Street in Davis, a Yolo County city 11 miles west of Sacramento at Interstate 80 and State Route
- Locke Historic Chinatown Locke, a Delta town resettled by Chinese immigrants after a 1915 fire in Walnut Grove, is a National Historic Landmark District with museums on Main S
- Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon Ruhstaller Farm on Sievers Road in Dixon brews with hops grown on the farm, keeps a food truck daily and has live music on Fridays and Saturdays in se
Booking a car in Sacramento
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 30.45 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National, Sixt, Thrifty
- Pick up at
- Sacramento Airport · Sacramento International Airport
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-25) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.