 Salinas’s semi-professional baseball team the Salinas Packers placed second in the California Coastal League during the 2000 season! They played teams like the Santa Barbara Foresters, San Luis Obispo Blues, Fresno Barons, San Francisco Seals, Bay Area Rams, and non-league teams Sacramento Smokies, Nevada Yankees, San Francisco Angels and San Mateo Bulldogs. Season tickets are available at 770-0865.
The beautiful year-round climate entices residents to the 47 park sites found in the Salinas City limits, including two city golf courses and three recreation centers. Sherwood Park, for example, includes an indoor swimming pool, lighted tennis courts and picnic area that accommodates 600 people, as well as the adjoining Salinas Community Center with its multi-use auditorium, Sherwood Hall. Pack a lunch and visit Central Park with its tennis courts or try out the new skateboard park at Natividad Creek.
Looking for kids activities in the Salinas Valley? Interested in youth summer camps, sports, science and performing arts programs, outdoor adventures, festivals and museums in Monterey County? Click here to find things to do with your children on the Central Coast!
Elsewhere in the valley, RV-ing, hiking, boating, camping and mountainbiking enthusiasts can find everything they need at one of the recreational areas including the Pinnacles National Monument, Arroyo Seco, Laguna Seca, Lakes San Antonio and Nacimiento and Toro Park.
Golfer’s Digest magazine recently announced the Monterey Peninsula the world’s number one destination for golfers, according to its readers. Salinas has its own offerings in the golf world, with the Salinas Golf and Country Club, Laguna Seca Golf and Country Club and two municipal courses. The Twin Creeks municipal golf course is a new development, offering players world class golf and pristine scenery. Twin Creeks is a 9-hole course, consisting of four par four holes and five par threes. It offers a 31-par challenge with a 30-station night lighted driving range, practice green, and practice sand bunker. Salinas Fairways is another golfing option, and both courses give the golfer a chance to experience the joy and challenge of Central Coast golf at very affordable prices.
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