Western Railway Museum Farms and cities have taken over much of the bunchgrass prairie that once covered a quarter of California, but there's still a little patch left in Solano County. This spring, the museum also commemorates the 60th anniversary of train service that operated on the bridge between Oakland and San Francisco. The museum, located between Suisun City and Rio Vista at 5848 State Highway 12, features a collection of vintage electric railway cars. It is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends year-round, with expanded hours in the summer. Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center Indoor and outdoor displays of aircraft and Air Force memorabilia help tell the story of Travis Air Force Base.
Admission is free and guided tours are available for large groups.
This city's roots go to the Gold Rush, when a wharf was established on the Sacramento River to handle prospectors' supplies being ferried by river steamer. The people who followed and settled Rio Vista were, for the most part, farmers. Its newest exhibit includes a 1923 tractor. Admission is free. Dutra Museum of Dredging To the east of Solano County, thousands of acres of fertile farmland lie in the middle of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.