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goers on the weekends. Industrial parks, high-tech computer firms and look-alike housing
developments have sprawled across the city's landscape, taking over where farms, ranches
and open spaces once spread between the bay and the surrounding hills.
SAN JOSE FOR CHILDREN
Children's Discovery Museum
MUSEUM
(
408-298-5437;
www.cdm.org
; 180 Woz Way; admission $12;
10am-5pm Tue-Sat, from noon
Sun; )
Downtown, this science and creativity museum has hands-on displays incorporating art,
technology and the environment, with plenty of toys, and very cool play-and-learn areas.
The museum is on Woz Way, which is named after Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple.
Great America
AMUSEMENT PARK
( 408-986-5886;
www.cagreatamerica.com
; 4701 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara; adult/child un-
der 4ft $60/40; Apr-Oct; )
If you can handle the shameful product placements, kids love the roller coasters and oth-
er thrill rides. Note that online tickets cost much less than walk-up prices; parking costs
$15 but it's also accessible by public transportation.
Raging Waters
AMUSEMENT PARK
( 408-238-9900;
www.rwsplash.com
;
2333 South White Rd; adult/child under 4ft $39/29, parking
$6; May-Sep; )
A water park inside Lake Cunningham Regional Park, Raging Waters has fast water slides,
a tidal pool and a nifty water fort. Online discounts.
Sights
Downtown San Jose is at the junction of Hwy 87 and I-280. Hwy 101 and I-880 complete
the box. Running roughly north-south along the length of the city, from the old port town
of Alviso on the San Francisco Bay all the way downtown, is 1st St; south of I-280, its
name changes to Monterey Hwy.
