Galt (California)

Galt is a small town in Sacramento County, California, at the northern end of the San Joaquin Valley.

Understand
Galt is a rural town created in 1869 when the Central Pacific Railroad Company built the first transcontinental railway across the US. While hardly a tourist attraction in itself, it has a pleasant enough old town and makes a convenient base for visiting the vineyards of Lodi only a few min south of town.

Libertarians will have to shrug like Atlas: the town was named after its founder John McFarland's Canadian home town of Galt, now a part of Cambridge, Ontario, and has no connection to Ayn Rand's character.

Get in
Galt is about 30 min south of Sacramento on California State Route 99.

Cargo trains continue to trundle through Galt, but there is no direct passenger service. Lodi, a few minutes south, has 4 Amtrak trains daily.

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