Inland Empire Attractions
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Highlights of the Inland Empire region of California include Riverside and San Bernardino.
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Malki Museum, Banning, California
The Malki Museum opened to the public in 1965. Displays highlight the cultural heritage of the Southern California Indian tribes. Other features include a brick adobe museum and the Temalpakh Ethnobotanical Garden, with plants used for an array of purposes including food and medicine.
Ontario, California
Ontario is located 20mi/32km west of San Bernardino. Los Angeles County's second international airport is located here with continuously updated art displays. The airport itself has terrazzo flooring, ceramic murals and colorful fused-glass panels.
Ontario International Airport
Ontario International Airport has two terminals, and the capacity to handle about 10 million passengers each year. There are permanent art displays located throughout the terminals.
Ontario Mills
Ontario Mills in Ontario, CA has more than 200 outlet stores and an AMC 30 movie theater. There are also entertainment facilities with GameWorks and The American Wilderness Experience.
Ontario Museum of History and Art
The Ontario Museum of History and Art is located in a historic Spanish style building on Euclid Avenue and features exhibits on the history of the town and its citrus growing past.
Cucamonga Guasti Regional Park
Cucamonga Guasti Regional Park has a swimming lagoon with a double flume slide. There is fishing, picnic areas, and a playground as well.
Graber Olive House
The Graber Olive House in Ontario was established in 1894 and is dedicated to the harvest of olives in the fall.
Apple Valley, California
Apple Valley is located in the High Desert, on the Mojave River. The town was once the home of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. The valley offers fishing, horseback riding and a rodeo competition.
Victor Valley Museum and Art Gallery
The Victor Valley Museum and Art Gallery is located in a long adobe structure. The art and historic displays feature Native American handicrafts, pioneers of the High Desert mining industry and a hands-on area for children called the Imagination Station.
Chino, California
Chino (pop. 59,682) is located 30mi/48km east of Los Angeles. Chino was founded in 1887 and was incorporated in 1910, when it was connected to the rest of California by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Planes of Fame Air Museum
Mr. Edward Maloney who saw the need to preserve WWII aircraft founded the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino. Exhibits of restored aircraft include American, German, Japanese and British warplanes.
Prado Regional Park
Prado Regional Park in Chino offers the visitor camping, hiking, fishing, a playground, a golf course, dog training facility and water activities.
Exotic World Burlesque Museum (closed), Helendale, California
Exotic World has moved to Las Vegas.Visitors can view thousands of photos of famous burlesque stars as well as their costumes, jewelry, shoes and their G-strings. Costumes and photos date back to the 18th century.
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Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative Arts, Cherry Valley, California
The Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative Arts exhibits furniture from the late 16th to 19th centuries from Europe and Asia.
Hemet, California
Hemet (pop. 36,094) is located 31mi/50km southeast of San Bernardino. Hemet plays host to a variety of events including the arts and winter festivals.
Idyllwild, California
Idyllwild (pop. 2,300) is a resort located in the San Jacinto Mountains. It's known for its hiking trails and camping and rock-climbing.
Lake Arrowhead, California
Lake Arrowhead (pop. 6,300) is a popular resort town with restaurants shops and log cabins. Fishing, hiking and winter sports are popular here.
Lake Arrowhead Children's Museum
Lake Arrowhead Children's Museum features exhibits that include a bubble area, a collage room, crawl like an ant in our life sized ant farm, recycle craft center, child sized village and a camping exhibit.
Heap's Peak Arboretum
There is a three quarter mile trail through the Heap's Peak Arboretum in Lake Arrowhead. Visitors will see plants of the San Bernardino Range here.
Snow Valley Ski Area
Snow Valley is located five miles east of Running Springs in the San Bernardino Mountains. The hill has a vertical drop of 1,141 feet and 12 chair lifts.
Lake Elsinore, California
The town of Lake Elsinore (pop. 18,285) is located on the lake of the same name, 30mi/48km south of San Bernardino.
Elsie Museum (closed)
ATTRACTION IS CLOSED.The Elsie Museum is housed in a 1913 building. Elsie is a historical lake serpent said to have been in the lake for more than 100 years. The Museum has information on sightings, along with other area information and souvenirs.
Lake Elsinore Diamond
The Lake Elsinore Diamond is a baseball field located in the resort town and used for sporting events.
Oak Glen, California
Oak Glen is a large apple growing community that also hosts a live-animal park and small fishing pond at Oak Tree Village near the summit of Oak Glen Road.
Oak Tree Village
Oak Tree Village is located in the middle of the historic apple farming community of Oak Glen. The village offers 20 unique shops, the animal park where visitors can feed unique wildlife, a petting farm, and a wildlife museum. The Village also has 6 ponds with trout fishing, fish feeding, Black & White swans and the most colorful ducks in southern California.
Parrish Pioneer Apple Ranch
Parrish Pioneer Apple Ranch has been in operation since 1860 growing apples in their orchards in Oak Glen. Parrish Ranch is perfect for a picnic in a mountain setting, or watching the country and exotic animals. The swans drift on the ranch duck pond and the shop sells its wares including fruit, ciders and jams.
Riley's Farm
Riley's Farm is a living history farm. Students attend tours that feature weaving, candle-dipping, and cider pressing and the drill of a Revolutionary War or Civil War battle. On selected weekends, families can partake in "farm-stay" weekends, to experience the life of an 18th or 19th century American farmer.
Riley's at Los Rios Rancho
Riley's at Los Rios Rancho is a working apple orchard offering school tours, a renovated packing shed for dances, and outdoor education programs.
Perris, California
Perris became a city in 1911 and offers abundant recreational opportunities. The town is located 37mi/60km west of Palm Springs.
Orange Empire Railway Museum
The Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris is the largest operating railway museum in the Western United States with more than 200 locomotives on its 64 acre grounds.
Perris Valley Historical Museum
The Perris Valley Historical Museum has displays of the history of Perris including artifacts from the Luiseno Indians, turn of the century clothing, and mining tools.
Rancho Cucamonga, California
Rancho Cucamongo was called the sandy place (kukamonga) by the Serrano and Gabrielino Indians. The first settlers, Europeans, arrived in 1774.
Casa de Rancho Cucamonga
Casa de Rancho Cucamonga is the oldest fired-brick house in San Bernardino County. It was an important stop for settlers migrating through the desert and over the mountains from the East. It was sold to John Rains in 1858.
Route 66 Territory Museum
The Route 66 Territory Museum is located in the Foothill Marketplace in Rancho Cucamonga. It has displays of the history of the famous highway. There are gas and oil pumps, road signs and photos.
Lewis Family Playhouse
Lewis Family Playhouse presents plays and musicals performed by the MainStreet Theatre Company. It seats 560 people on two levels.
John Rains House
The John Rains House was built in 1860 on the 13,000 acre Rancho Cucamonga site.
San Jacinto, California
San Jacinto is located 23mi/37km west of Palm Springs. It was incorporated in 1888.
San Jacinto Municipal Museum
Exhibits from natural and human history of the area are on display at the San Jacinto Municipal Museum. These items include local Indians relics, artifacts from pioneer families, and material on the community and its development. A special exhibit highlights the record-breaking 1937 Soviet transpolar flight which landed in San Jacinto.
Victorville, California
Victorville was originally known as Victor in 1885. Located north of San Bernardino, it was at one time the site of a U.S. Air Force base.
California Route 66 Museum
California Route 66 Museum, housed in an old roadhouse, celebrates the small town ambiance of this famous highway whose hold on the American psyche has not loosened its grip.
Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum (moved)
ATTRACTION CLOSED, MOVED TO BRANSON, MO.The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum in Victorville has a fine collection of memorabilia from this screen pair (and Trigger) arranged in a 33,000 square foot area.
Yucaipa, California
The city of Yucaipa is located in San Bernardino County. Yucaipa offers 10 parks, a community center/gymnasium, equestrian arena and skateboard park.
Yucaipa Adobe
The Yucaipa Adobe is one of the oldest homes in San Bernardino County, believed to have been built in 1858. Furnishings from the 19th C are on display from when it was owned by John Dunlap, a Texas cattleman. Outside the adobe, horse-drawn farm implements are on display.
Mousley Museum of Natural History
The Mousley Museum of Natural History in Yucaipa features displays of minerals, shells and fossils. It was established by Louis B Mousley a collector of minerals and shells.
Yucaipa Regional Park
Yucaipa Regional Park is a great place for camping and fishing with three lakes offering trout, catfish and bass. Swimming, paddleboat rentals, volleyball and horseshoe pits are some of the recreational opportunities.
Los Rios Ranch
Visitors will not want to miss the Los Rios Ranch in Yucaipa. It is a working apple farm, with a pumpkin patch, farm store, deli and bakery.
