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Welcome to Davis, California.
Davis, California is located 15 miles west of Sacramento and 75 miles east of San Francisco. Davis is a university-oriented city with a progressive, vigorous community noted for its small-town style, energy conservation, environmental programs, parks, preservation of trees, red double-decker London buses, bicycles, and the quality of its educational institutions. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced.
The extensive Univ. of California at Davis, which has a major agricultural research center as well as schools of law, medicine, and engineering and the Mondavi performing arts center, is there. The National Primate Center and a university of Native American and Chicano cultures are also in Davis.
Our downtown spans 32 blocks with over 490 retail, professional, and service businesses and over 70 restaurants and coffee shops. Downtown Davis serves as the city's center for business, culture, and entertainment.
The Post Office is a great place to stay if you're a toad. Source: http://www.daviswiki.org/Toad_Tunnel
Davis is home to the University of California at Davis. UC Davis is a world class university with such varied attractions as the arboretum along Putah Creek, cultural performances, galleries, and general, medical, and law libraries. The highly ranked University of California, Davis has 26,000 students. Though many students live in Davis and contribute to a low housing vacancy rate, a great number of student's commute from the surrounding communities.
Davis is a remarkable community which offers unique cultural, creative, entertainment, and educational opportunities to visitors from all corners of the world. Whether you have a group of ten people or ten thousand, you will find that Davis welcomes its visitors with small town hospitality. Davis offers visitors a wide selection of interesting and engaging activities year round. You'll enjoy scenic bike tours with over 50 miles of bicycle trails, picnicking in one of the 30 parks and recreation areas, horseback riding, historic tours of downtown, art walks, gallery openings, the Farmers Market with food and live entertainment and so much more.
Davis is also well known for many interesting and exciting annual events that draw people from all over the world including California Duck Days, Spring Eggstravaganza, Picnic Day, Native American Culture Week, Asian Pacific Culture Week, Whole Earth Festival, La Raza Culture Days, Black Family Week, Cyclebration, Independent Film Series and more.
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Local daily news in Davis:
UC Davis, Solano County get $1M to improve history education
"The ultimate goal of the History Project is to grow a corps of teacher-leaders capable of training their colleagues and disseminating their materials and experience to the broader teaching community in their districts, counties and beyond." The U.S. Department of Education has granted the University of California Davis History Project and the Solano County office of Education $1 million to improve the county's instruction of American history. via Sacramento Business Journal
Groundbreaking for new UC Davis health center is Monday
Published 10:13 am PDT Sunday, May 4, 2008 Ground will be broken Monday for a new $50 million student health center on the University of California, Davis campus. via Sacramento Bee
The big fix: How will you get to work?
Last Updated 7:30 am PDT Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A1 Afternoon traffic moves on Interstate 5 through downtown Sacramento on Tuesday. via Sacbee.com
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Places of interest:
Woodland, CA (8.6 miles), Dixon, CA (9.5 miles), West Sacramento, CA (13.7 miles), Winters, CA (16.4 miles), Elmira, CA (18.3 miles), Sacramento, CA (18.5 miles), Parkway-South Sacramento, CA (19.9 miles), Laguna West-Lakeside, CA (20.7 miles).
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