Capitol Park

Carpe Diem, loving these moments spent and exploring Capitol Park with my other half. Since he knows I love anything to do with plants, gardens, & flowers, he took me here spontaneously and Wow, what a surprise and treat! I love it here, LOVED my time here, I wish I could stay here longer and just enjoy park longer, and have a picnic & just to relax!Capitol Park in Sacramento is a must worth visit, a 40 acre park surrounding the California State Capitol building, It features memorials, gardens, and public art offering a peaceful escape in the heart of the city. & all this is FREE, just have to pay for parking or street parking. The park is well kept, I can see the city of Sacramento puts in lots of time in to this park. I loved looking at the huge cactus garden area. Those are some nice looking cactus plants/trees. Some of the desert plants has blooms, nice to see. The rose garden and World Peace rose garden is so pretty & colorful, tons of bamboo trees, noticed orange fruit trees with abundant of fruits on the tree, and so much more to see. The monument and memorials is such a nice tribute to the Veterans and Firefighters. I just love walking around this park and walking towards the capitol was super cool. Lots of photo opt. here, get your cameras & phone ready! All in all, such a great day to vacation, visiting Sacramento. Thank you to my wonderful hubby for this! I am trying not to cry, such a blessing to experience this!

Had some time to kill and walked around the cactus and rose gardens. So beautiful there and a many different varieties! Worth the hour or so I wandered around.

I recommend Capitol Park to locals and visitors. It's gorgeous and very Sacramento. We'll often walk through the park on weekends with our dog. There are so many different types of plants and trees and the World Peace Rose Garden and Native Plants are great spots for photo ops.You can walk all around the Capitol and there are some great views of the building. There are also benches around to sit on and it's walking distance from plenty of great local restaurants that make it a great picnic spot as well.There is street parking in the area and it's pretty walkable even from other parts of downtown, like Midtown.Whether you're planning to spend a few hours or a few minutes walking through it's a great spot.

it's a great park, i love the rose garden in the late summer. Such a safe haven and they maintain it very well. all of the benches within the park make an easy escape. i was lucky enough to watch the agave plant produce its century bloom last year in the desert garden. so cool! just don't pick the fruit off any of the trees in the capitol (or don't get caught lol)

We walked by the State Capitol on our way to get ice cream. The building itself is very impressive and the park was very well maintained. There were other visitors around so we felt safe.

The rose garden in a beautiful place to visit. There are benches surrounded by pillars with dedications. Many dedications are to people that have passed. They are very touching. I have had lunch in the rose garden many times. This is a great place to meditate.

I love Capitol Park. First of all, the flowers. The International World Peace Rose Garden, which sits at the corner of the park near 15 and L, is beautiful. I've written a separate review for it, which you can check out here: https://bit.ly/3rD4qAqI'm a huge fan of the desert garden, which lays near 15 and N. I'm from the mojave desert, so one of my favorite things to do here is to take pictures with the cacti, and then send them to my older sisters with messages like, "I'm almost to your house, be there in ten minutes!"Last time I was here, I found a cactus I did not recognize. I sent a picture to my mom, asking, "Do you know what this is called?" She replied, "Jumping Cholla." I took pictures of what I thought was a rare bloom, and later realized was a fake flower. Lol. There were lots of opuntia and barrel cacti in bloom, though.My daughter messaged me to ask what I was doing, and when I told her I was walking around Capitol Park, she asked if I could send some pictures of the Rose Garden to show her friends who she was with. You betcha... I had been heading towards Old Sac, and had already reached 9 and L, but when my kid asks for a picture of a flower, I cannot say no. I sent like 30.There are many kinds of trees at Capitol Park, each labeled with its name on a little silver plaque. So, I should know the name of my favorite tree, but I don't. But it's the one with the yellow/red-veined flowers that like like fuchsia. There are several of them on L between 12th and 13th.There are a few redwoods here, technically, but they are nowhere near as impressive as you can find elsewhere in NorCal. They are like sample-sized sequoias. If you're a fan of memorials, Capitol Park has you covered. There are lots of statues and war memorials here. Plus, of course, there's the Capitol itself, which doubles as a free state history museum. Whenever I walk through all the orange trees near the Capitol, I can't help but flash back to bringing my little sister, her first husband, and their baby to stroll around here when they were living with me, about 14 years ago."Where's Martin?" Asked my sister. We both looked around, but couldn't spot him, until he jumped out of an orange tree with an orange in hand."Um, I'm not sure if you're allowed to eat those..."He didn't care. He looked like a kid in a candy store. This was the most excited I had ever seen him. "I've never seen an orange tree before," he said.Welcome to California, bud.

No public restrooms, no street parking due to an event the next day. Public garage parking is available for $1.50 for 1/2 hour . Couldn't really see alot of the tribute monuments due to construction barriers at different sections of the park . Reason for the 3 star rating . we saw veterans memorial & fire fighters monuments. Reading the names of the soldiers and firefighters who served were touching. I felt a sense of sadness and grateful to those who put their lives in harms way to protect us . Thank you from the bottom of my heart .

I never knew this was here and I loved that we got to stop by! There are so many sections to the Capitol Park. And the park itself is very vast. Everything is a bit a walk away so make sure to grab some water, sunblock and a hat! There are monuments to read, the rose bushes/state garden, desert area and so much more! The area is kept clean and beautiful, definitely a beautiful tourist spot to just stroll and admire the area.

Beautiful park with well kept greenery. Great for walks during sunset. Parking was not too difficult to find. Good opportunities to take pictures here. Was not too busy when we visited.