Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area 5.0 (reviews)

If you love the great outdoors, you'll love Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, which is teeming with stunning wildlife and flora, only a stone's throw from Sacramento.

Yolo Wildlife Bypass Area is the perfect spot if you want to escape the city life for a bit, and just get out to enjoy the magic of California nature. It's pretty special!

Right in the heart of the Pacific Flyway, this stunning area is spread across a whopping 16,600 acres, so kids - get those walking shoes on!

As you make your way around the reserve, you will experience a number of vegetation community types, including wetlands and woodlands. Keep those cameras at the ready too, because there is a lot of wildlife to spot.

Kids - keep an eye out for those jumping toads, or the slithering snakes. You might be lucky and spot some migratory birds, waterfowl, wading birds and even raptors! Don't forget to look up, because the bats might be out in full force too. 

People from all walks, from schoolchildren, to hunters, to bird watchers all come to see wildlife up-close in their natural environments. A great opportunity for kids to learn about nature too. 

You can even start learning now! Did you know that the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area was once an 80,000 acre wetland teeming with wildlife even as big as elk? Like many areas, the basin was altered by human activity, and after years of farming and grazing, what is left is the official basin - and it's pretty special!

So why not get outdoors on your next family day out, and enjoy what makes California so special. It makes such a difference getting out into nature, so kids - turn off those televisions and put away those phones. It's time to have a WILD day out, and it's at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area!