When the budgets are tightened and time is limited we still want to have fun! Here are some great free and low cost activities sure to provide fun for the whole family.

FREE

1. Walk across the Sundial Bridge in Redding
2. Watch the sun set from the Diestel Horse Bridge in Redding
3. Go to MarketFest in Redding’s Downtown Library Park
4. Attend Mosquito Serenade in the Anderson River Park
5. Slide down Eskimo Hill
6. Taste olives in Corning
7. Tour Shasta Dam
8. Fish Hat Creek
9. Bike or walk the River Trail in Redding
10. Pick up some produce at various Farmer’s Markets in Chico
11. Walk Clover Creek Preservation Area on Shasta View in Redding
12. Walk the Lema Ranch Trails off Shasta View in Redding
13. Watch the Salmon Run at the Coleman Fish Hatchery
14. Enjoy a day at the beach at Whiskeytown Lake
15. Check out upper, middle and lower falls of McCloud
16. Have a picnic in Bidwell Park Chico
17. Watch the river flow from a vista point along the Sacramento River
18. Barbeque at Caldwell Park in Redding
19. Take a nap at Dunsmuir Park
20. Drink from the headwaters of the Sacramento River in Mt. Shasta
21. Walk through the Ide Adobe State Park in Red Bluff
22. Bike, Hike, or Fish at the Bizz Johnson Recreation trail Susanville

LOW COST

1. Snowshoe in Lassen National Park
2. Hike Castle Crags
3. Rent a kayak at Whiskeytown’s Oak Bottom Marina
4. Play a round of disc golf in Redding’s Enterprise Park/Kid’s Kingdom
5. Go rafting down the Klamath river
6. Hike to a waterfall in Whiskeytown National Park
7. Go ice skating in Mt. Shasta
8. Gather wild lavender at area lavender farms
9. Visit Burney Falls
10. Watch a softball game at Big League Dreams Redding
11. Feed the fish at the Mt Shasta fish hatchery
12. Visit the courthouse in the Shasta State Historic Park Old Shasta
13. Camp on Shasta Lake

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