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We think Davis is the best place to be during the summer, but if you need ideas for a little adventure, we got you 🤓☀️On...
06/02/2026

We think Davis is the best place to be during the summer, but if you need ideas for a little adventure, we got you 🤓☀️

One of the most underrated things about living in Davis is how ridiculously well located it is.

You get all the charm of a bike friendly college town with farmers markets, greenbelts, patio dining, and long summer evenings downtown. But you’re also right in the middle of some of the best destinations in California.

🍷 Wine Country - Napa and Sonoma get most of the attention, but don’t sleep on Lodi, Clarksburg, and Winters. Great wine, beautiful scenery, and all close enough for a spontaneous day trip.

🌊 The Coast - Santa Cruz, Bodega Bay, Point Reyes, and Muir Woods are all within a couple hours. Whether you’re looking for ocean views, fresh seafood, towering redwoods, or a beach day, you’ve got options.

🏔️ The Mountains - Lake Tahoe and Yosemite are both close enough for a weekend getaway and ambitious enough for a day trip. Hiking, swimming, cabins, waterfalls, and some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere in California.

🏙️ City Adventures - San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento are all easy trips from Davis. Catch a baseball game, visit a museum, try a new restaurant, explore a neighborhood, then come home and sleep in your own bed.

And if you really need to go somewhere, Sacramento Airport is one of the best.

That’s what makes Davis such a special place to live.

You don’t have to choose between a small town and adventure. You can have your bike rides, your farmers market mornings, your favorite local coffee shop, and still be just a short drive from the coast, the mountains, wine country, and some of California’s biggest cities.

We love being able to call this place home while still having great options for exploring!

What would you add to the list? 👀

06/01/2026

One of the coolest FREE activities at UC Davis 🤯

If you haven’t been over to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, you are seriously missing out! Without a doubt, one of the best hidden gems on campus.

Inside you’ll find everything from giant beetles and stick insects to tarantulas, butterflies, and insects from all over the world. Some are part of the museum’s research collection and some are very much alive and staring back at you.

What makes it so fun is that it feels equally interesting whether you’re an insect expert or someone who just wandered in because it sounded different.

The museum was founded in 1946 and is home to one of the largest insect collections in North America. Comparable to some huge museums! Somehow lots of residents have never been or haven’t even heard of it before.

The best part? It’s free to visit during public hours.

📍 Bohart Museum of Entomology - 455 Crocker Lane, Davis, CA

If you’re looking for something unique to do in Davis, add this one to the list.

05/31/2026

One of the coolest FREE features at UC Davis 🤯

If you haven’t been over to the Bohart Museum of Entomology, you are seriously missing out! Without a doubt, one of the best hidden gems on campus.

Inside you’ll find everything from giant beetles and stick insects to tarantulas, butterflies, and insects from all over the world. Some are part of the museum’s research collection and some are very much alive and staring back at you.

What makes it so fun is that it feels equally interesting whether you’re an insect expert or someone who just wandered in because it sounded different.

The museum was founded in 1946 and is home to one of the largest insect collections in North America. Comparable to some huge museums! Somehow lots of residents have never been or haven’t even heard of it before.

The best part? It’s free to visit during public hours.

📍 Bohart Museum of Entomology - 455 Crocker Lane, Davis, CA

If you’re looking for something unique to do in Davis, add this one to the list.

05/30/2026

These little booths around town make exploring Davis that much more awesome.

And we’re pretty sure we’ve only scratched the surface.

One of our favorite things about Davis is that you’ll randomly stumble across something interesting when you’re out walking or biking.

Some of the ones we found:

• Little Free Libraries scattered throughout Davis
• Free Stuff Booth at 3rd & J Street
• Dog Treat Booth in College Park
• Sticker Booth along Grande Avenue and the greenbelt
• Little Free Library and Pet Memorial near North Davis Farms

They’re small things, but they add so much character to the city and are a reminder of how thoughtful and community minded Davis can be.

Which little booths, libraries, free boxes, hidden gems, or community projects did we miss?

ICYMI: Here are a few highlights from our interview with someone running for Congress!We recently sat down with Eric Jon...
05/29/2026

ICYMI: Here are a few highlights from our interview with someone running for Congress!

We recently sat down with Eric Jones to talk about his background, what pushed him into politics, and why he says affordability and opportunity are at the center of his campaign.

Eric is currently running in California’s 4th Congressional District.

He grew up in a military family as the son of a nurse and a disabled veteran. During the conversation, he talked about how his family relied on food stamps and Medicaid at times, and how seeing his parents navigate healthcare and financial struggles shaped his perspective early on.

He’s also a first generation college graduate who attended college on a full scholarship.

Before running for Congress, Eric created thousands of jobs in healthcare and education companies in California, lowering health care costs, expanding access to mental health services, and creating opportunities for working families.

After becoming a father and moving to Napa, he also founded a nonprofit focused on fighting political extremism and misinformation online.

No matter where you fall politically, we always think it’s interesting hearing directly from people who want to represent our communities and learning more about what shaped them.

Big thanks to Dunloe Brewing for hosting us and providing the beers for the conversation 🍻

05/28/2026

This 1928 “Graffiti Bridge” will be blank soon 🤯

For decades, the Stevenson Bridge has been covered in layer after layer of graffiti, turning this quiet bridge between Davis, Dixon, and Winters into one of the most recognizable landmarks in the area.

Sseeing it from above really shows just how crazy it is. Names, art, inside jokes, memories, school pride, random chaos, all stacked on top of each other over generations.

But the bridge is now undergoing a major rehabilitation project, meaning all of the current artwork covering it will eventually be gone as crews restore and reinforce the structure. The bridge has been standing since 1928, and the project is meant to help preserve it for decades to come.

It’s kind of bittersweet.

The graffiti was never meant to last forever, but that’s also what made it special. The bridge constantly changed depending on who showed up and what moment in time it captured.

One of the most unique landmarks around here, without question.

The Gunrock might actually be one of the best places to just hang out on campus 👀It’s inside the Silo, but it honestly f...
05/27/2026

The Gunrock might actually be one of the best places to just hang out on campus 👀

It’s inside the Silo, but it honestly feels more like an actual sports pub than a typical campus spot. TVs everywhere, games, people hanging out, sports on in the background… definitely easy to end up staying longer than you planned.

We tried a bunch of the food and yeah, we totally get why people keep telling us to come here.

The birria tacos were great, the Hattrick chicken sandwich was super solid, but the SmashBurger completely stole the show. If you only get one thing, make it that.

And! They serve Sudwerk on tap. Love the local connection. The Guava Cider was especially good. Way too easy to drink 🍻

They’ve also got darts, foosball, co****le, giant Jenga, trivia nights, bingo, open mic nights, and watch parties for games, so there’s usually something going on besides just eating.

Also worth knowing: Aggie Hour runs from 3 to 6pm with 20% off the bites menu and $2 off pints 👀

The patio out back is nice too, especially when the weather’s good and you just want to sit outside for a bit between classes.

Honestly feels like one of those spots every UC Davis student discovers eventually and then keeps coming back to.

📍 UC Davis Silo - Open Monday through Friday from 11am to 6pm

05/27/2026

Rain. Thunder. WIND. And hail… in MAY!? 🌧️😳

This weather today genuinely felt weird for this time of year.

Around Sacramento and Davis, May is usually when things start fully shifting into dry summer mode. Sacramento normally averages less than an inch of rain during the entire month of May, and most years this late spring weather is warm, sunny, and basically cloudless.

Instead, today looked more like a random February storm dropped into finals season.

And the hail somehow made it even more chaotic. Hail in the valley isn’t unheard of, but getting heavy rain, thunderstorms, strong wind, AND hail all at once in late May definitely caught people off guard.

Honestly the weather has felt completely random lately.

One minute it’s summer. The next minute Davis looks like it’s inside a washing machine.

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