Carl was magic. He took us along for a tour and had everyone smiling before we even left the building. He was informative on multiple fronts and was able to educate us all on the history of Sacramento. Now for as perspicacious as I may be I just can’t seem to recall the prodigious acronym with which he described our group. But I assure you he is truly a sensational personality with an implausible accumulation of polysyllables in his repository.

This is definitely worth your time! It's a very interesting piece of history. In fact, our tour guide dressed in period costume and spoke in first person as if we were back in the 1800s. She played a lady named Fanny who was a real person back then. She used humor, never got out of character and really kept our attention. Who would have thought to build a town over another after a flood (you get to see that town underneath the other)? Tours are daily and only allow 20 people so make your reservation. This tour starts inside the Sacramento History Museum and is next door to the California State Railroad Museum. It's part of the Old Sacramento Waterfront so there's lots to do all in one big area.

This was a very informative tour with a great tour guide. She did play a character which I was afraid would be twee but actually she did a great job of playing her character whilst being informative. Access to the underground areas was helpful to understand the mechanics of how the city was raised. Thoroughly recommend and the museum itself where the tour starts (entrance included in tour price).

The area of Sacramento which is underground is a very cool area to see. The tour takes you to two areas and I really enjoyed seeing it. The tour guide narrates as a woman who lived in the time when Sacramento was first built. Much of what she discussed was biographical about this woman and not informational about Sacramento. Nothing about the gold rush, little about the buildings/companies which were raised and a brief description about how it was raised. Living conditions of the everyday man/woman were not discussed.Possibly this emphasis on the character's perspective is to extend the tour so that the price of $25 per person is justified. What was very bothersome and offensive ( I'm a middle class female) was the disparaging comments about stingy wealthy people, greedy men, and the emphasis of the women who were making Sacramento what it would become while ignoring the hard work and planning by men. Facts are not offensive-sticking with them is best.

Not much time was spent under ground. Guide acted as an awkward obscure historical character that detracted from the tour. But there was some intersting info presented.