Vacation in Riverside County, CA

Discover Riverside County

The kids are out of school for two weeks. The weather may not be hot but is certainly comfortable enough for most outdoor activities. There are many family activities that will appeal to all ages but the best place to get into the Christmas spirit is at the Mission Inn. Wander the hotel and the grounds and enjoy the lights. It's all free.

Los Angeles has a lot to offer but for something a little different, try Riverside County. There are great places to stay and wonderful things to see and do. Southern California residents looking for a Staycation, should consider some of the suggestion listed here. There may not be time to do them all.

Mission Inn

Historic downtown Riverside

Given a choice of places to stay at Christmas time, the Mission Inn is a prime choice. The well-appointed hotel is one of the hot spots in the area. It offers packages that are slightly pricey but well worth it.

Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn

The Mission Inn in Riverside, CA is more than just a destination. Families come from everywhere at Christmas to see the historic hotel covered in lights. Each year there is a lighting ceremony. Carolers in Victorian dress stroll the grounds, entertaining visitors. The Inn sits in a two block area that is closed to vehicle traffic. There are many fun shops to wander through. There is an ice-skating rink and vendors galore. Horse drawn carriages tour the Mission Inn area with interesting facts about the historical buildings. This is a family Christmas tradition for many and they return year after year.

The Perris Railroad Station Museum and the Orange Empire Railway Museum

These two attractions should be seen together. They are close to each other and their past is tied together.

The Perris Railroad Museum

The history of the station and the people it served is detailed here.

Orange Empire Railway Museum

A short five miles from the Railroad Station, the Orange Empire Railway Museum is a train lovers delight. Plan to be entertained for hours walking the train barn seeing the restorations. Ride different trolleys and trains around the grounds. Let the kids ring all the railroad crossing signals. Great family entertainment. Thomas the Train is a yearly visitor.

Grand reopening of the Perris Raillroad Station

Recently refurbished, it is now part of the Metrolink station that will be opening soon. On weekend, the trains run to the Station from the Orange Empire Railroad Museum. Huell Howser was the master of ceremonies at the reopening.

Riverside County is a very big place

No one can list all the things to entertain and amaze visitors to Riverside County. You can boat on the Colorado River and play in the snow at Idyllwild. There are desert trails to run with ATV's and hiking trails on Mt. San Jacinto. Listed here are just a few.

Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology, Hemet California

Well worth a visit

Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology, Hemet California

This is a great place for kids. There are several interactive displays and the kids also get to create a dinosaur bone. These fossils were discovered when the Metropolitan Water District decided to create another water source for the area. Mammoth roamed our area. How exciting!

Pennypickles Workshop - Children's Museum - Temecula, CA

Where everyone can be a kid

Pennypickles Workshop

Great museum for children. Great museum for parents. Touch everything, play with everything. This small museum is crammed full of fun things to do.

Visit Temecula

Temecula, CA

Palm Springs, CA

A travel destination on its own

Palm Springs is a destination that many people head for during Christmas vacation. It is probably the warmest "hot spot" destination in Riverside County. However, there are many other things to see and do in the area.

More things to do in Riverside County

All the side trips from Palm Springs are with an hours drive. The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is just north of the town. If you come in on Hwy 111, you have to pass it on your way in. t The Desert Hills Premium Outlet boasts such stores as Prada, Dior, Boss, Gucci and Giorgio Armani. It that was not enough, there is the Cabazon Outlets right next door. The Morongo Casino is not hard to miss. The Wheel Inn is a slice of Americana where the food is wholesome and the restaurant itself a museum. Claude Bell who ran the Wheel Inn built two dinosaurs on the property. Right down the road is Hadley's Date Farm, the place of the date shakes. Just past Hwy 111 on the 10 freeway, is the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm. It's almost futuristic. More information on these great side trips is provided in the link.

Every time we take our family out of town, we stop at the Wheel Inn. The food is good but not a year has gone by that we don't have pictures of our children and now grandchild taken with the dinosaurs. Some people mark height on the wall, we have dinosaurs.

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Media in New York City

The media of New York City are internationally influential, and include some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, most prolific television studios, and biggest record companies in the world. It is a major global center for the television, music, newspaper, book and magazine publishing industries.
New York is also the largest media market in North America (followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto).^[1] Some of the city's media conglomerates include Time Warner, the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the News Corporation, the Hearst Corporation, and Viacom. Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks are headquartered in New York.^[2] Three of the "Big Four" record labels are also based in the city, as well as in Los Angeles. One-third of all American independent films are produced in New York.^[3] More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city^[3] and book-publishing industry employs about 25,000 people.^[4]
Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Major tabloid newspapers in the city include the Daily News and the New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton. The city also has a major ethnic press, with 270 newspapers and magazines published in more than 40 languages.^[5] El Diario La Prensa is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation.^[6] The New York Amsterdam News, published in Harlem, is a prominent African-American newspaper. The Village Voice is the largest alternative newspaper.
The television industry developed in New York and is a significant employer in the city's economy. The four major American broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, are all headquartered in New York. Many cable channels are based in the city as well, including MTV, Fox News, HBO and Comedy Central. In 2005 there were more than 100 television shows taped in New York City.^[7]
New York is also a major center for non-commercial media. The oldest Public-access cable tv channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971.^[8] WNET is the city's major public television station and a primary provider of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programming. WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997, has the largest public radio audience in the United States.^[9] The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, nyctv, that produces several original New York Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods, as well as city Government-access television (GATV).

Headquarters

From its founding, it was based at 23 Park Place, a block from City Hall, and two blocks from Park Row, the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper.
From 1929 to 1995, The News was based in the landmark skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The paper moved to 450 33rd Street in the mid-1990s, but the 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman movies). Former News subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building. The new headquarters at 450 West 33rd Street, straddles the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station is shared with television station WNET, and the Associated Press.
The paper has plans to leave West 33rd and move into offices at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan in 2011.