Chico (California)

Chico is in Butte County in California. Chico is the cultural and economic center of the northern Sacramento Valley, as well as the largest city in California north of Sacramento. The city is known as a college town, as the home of California State University, Chico, and for Bidwell Park, one of the largest urban parks in the world.

Understand

 * Chico City Council website

By train
Amtrak makes a once-daily stop in Chico at the at 450 Orange St on Orange and W 5th St with the following:
 * Amtrak Coast Starlight makes an once daily trip in each direction between Seattle and Los Angeles, serving Tacoma, Lacey, Centralia, Kelso, Vancouver, WA, Portland, Salem, Albany, Eugene, Klamath Falls, Dunsmuir, Redding, Chico, Sacramento, Davis, Martinez, San Francisco (Emeryville), Oakland, San Jose, Salinas, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Simi Valley, Van Nuys, and Burbank.

By car
Chico straddles SR 99, and is also accessible via SR 32 east of Orland at Exit #619 off Interstate 5 (I-5).

By plane
The nearest international airport is in Sacramento located  to the south. Chico also hosts a general aviation airport known as the  four miles north of the city.

Get around
Ride a bike. One of the best bike friendly towns around, the locals and students prefer to bike around it.

Taxis are prolific and cheap, and must be called to your location to pick you up.

The bus transit system, the B-line, will take you most places around the city at an hourly rate.

Go next

 * Gold Country - Where the formation of California really took place.
 * Mount Lassen - Excellent outdoor hiking and breathtaking scenery in the volcanic park about an hour and a half from Chico.
 * Oroville - Twenty minutes east of Chico is this town that has more history as a Gold Rush-era boom town.
 * Sacramento - About 1 hour and 45 minutes south of Chico and the capital of California.