Field Trips   

Experience Glorious Sonoma County with Terry McAteer on this two day field trip that has a little bit of something for everyone!

The day starts with a narrated bus ride to Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen. Terry will provide tours of the wonderfully preserved London Cottage (including Jack’s writing room) and his wife, Charmian’s home, which she built following his death in 1916. We will enjoy a picnic lunch amidst the London vineyard before driving to Santa Rosa to tour the Charles Shultz Museum to see all of your favorite Peanut’s characters in this fun museum. A short drive finds us at the Courtyard by Marriott at Santa Rosa’s historic Railroad Square where we will spend the night. Following check-in, we will be joined by Nathan Westfall, a wine sommelier from Donum Estate Vineyards for a private tasting of Sonoma’s varietals. Dinner is on your own with a number of fine restaurants in the Railroad Square area.

The next day begins with breakfast, which is included, at the Courtyard by Marriott. Following breakfast and check-out, we will travel a few blocks to explore the home and gardens of famed botanist Luther Burbank who created over 900 new varieties of plants (including the Shasta Daisy, Russet Potato and Santa Rosa Plum). His home and gravesite are National Historic Landmarks and California’s Arbor Day, March 7th, celebrates Burbank’s birthday. Our bus ride after the Burbank home leads us to the historic town of Sonoma where you can enjoy lunch on their beautiful square following a quick tour of the Sonoma Mission, barracks which housed U.S. Grant, and the site of the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. Our last wine tasting will occur at Robledo Vineyards-- a family-run business started by Grandpa Robledo, a Mexican farmworker who saved his pennies to start this small operation. This concludes our Best of Sonoma County as we head back to Rocklin.
Trip includes transportation, lodging, two wine tasting sessions, picnic lunch and breakfast. Participants are responsible for one lunch and one dinner.
$410 pp double occupancy; $520 single occupancy; 

Bus departs from the Rocklin Campus (near the solar panels) at 8:30am.
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Cancelation and Refund Policy: Refunds will only be issued if the space is resold. A $50 processing fee will be deducted from any refund.

Experience Glorious Sonoma County with Terry McAteer on this two day field trip that has a little bit of something for everyone!

The day starts with a narrated bus ride to Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen. Terry will provide tours of the wonderfully preserved London Cottage (including Jack’s writing room) and his wife, Charmian’s home, which she built following his death in 1916. We will enjoy a picnic lunch amidst the London vineyard before driving to Santa Rosa to tour the Charles Shultz Museum to see all of your favorite Peanut’s characters in this fun museum. A short drive finds us at the Courtyard by Marriott at Santa Rosa’s historic Railroad Square where we will spend the night. Following check-in, we will be joined by Nathan Westfall, a wine sommelier from Donum Estate Vineyards for a private tasting of Sonoma’s varietals. Dinner is on your own with a number of fine restaurants in the Railroad Square area.

The next day begins with breakfast, which is included, at the Courtyard by Marriott. Following breakfast and check-out, we will travel a few blocks to explore the home and gardens of famed botanist Luther Burbank who created over 900 new varieties of plants (including the Shasta Daisy, Russet Potato and Santa Rosa Plum). His home and gravesite are National Historic Landmarks and California’s Arbor Day, March 7th, celebrates Burbank’s birthday. Our bus ride after the Burbank home leads us to the historic town of Sonoma where you can enjoy lunch on their beautiful square following a quick tour of the Sonoma Mission, barracks which housed U.S. Grant, and the site of the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. Our last wine tasting will occur at Robledo Vineyards-- a family-run business started by Grandpa Robledo, a Mexican farmworker who saved his pennies to start this small operation. This concludes our Best of Sonoma County as we head back to Rocklin.
Trip includes transportation, lodging, two wine tasting sessions, picnic lunch and breakfast. Participants are responsible for one lunch and one dinner.
$410 pp double occupancy; $520 single occupancy; 

Bus departs from the Rocklin Campus (near the solar panels) at 8:30am.
→ View Campus Map: Click Here!

Cancelation and Refund Policy: Refunds will only be issued if the space is resold. A $50 processing fee will be deducted from any refund.

Our trip begins with the bus ride to the remote Donner Party encampment north of Truckee for a morning walk to better understand this tragedy of this 1846 fateful event. From there, we drive through the spectacular Sierra Valley to Clio for lunch at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed clubhouse at Nakoma. Our afternoon takes us through the cute lumber town of Graeagle and a sweet tooth break in the Sierra Lake Basin before arriving at Sierra Pines Lodge in Sierra City overlooking the peaceful headwaters of the Yuba River. In the evening, we will have cocktails overlooking Sardine Lake and the Sierra Buttes before heading to rustic Sardine Lake Lodge for a scrumptious dinner. The morning finds us having a hearty breakfast at the Sierra Pines and a leisurely morning soaking up brisk morning air high in the Sierras before heading to historic Downieville and a picnic lunch along the banks of the North Fork of the Yuba River before heading home. 

Note: Because the lodge is small (it is the largest lodging in Sierra County), we can only accommodate double occupancy, so if single— find a friend to share a room or let us know and hopefully there is someone else that needs a roommate. (All meals, transportation and accommodations included; except bar costs at Sardine Lodge).

Sierra College bus will pick up registered members at 9:00am in Rocklin and then head to Colfax Train Station to pick up members at 9:45am. You will be dropped off at each location on the way home.

Field Trip Cancellations and Refund Policy

• If we have to cancel a field trip you will receive a full refund.
• If you cancel a field trip:
  • Day Trip: must be canceled at least 2 weeks prior to the field trip to receive a refund (minus a $10 cancellation fee).
  • Overnight field trips require a 45-day cancellation notice for a full refund (minus a $50 cancellation fee). No refunds given after that date.