Explorer's Summer Adventures
SUMMER IN SAN JOSÉ
Explore
- Grab ice cream from O'Brien's Candy Store, a San Jose icon acclaimed to be "the prettiest and most attractive candy store on the Pacific Coast."
- Check out an activity kit from Los Gatos Library's Library of Things collection and try something new.
- Complete the SCC PixinParks to earn a free shirt or bandana (while supplies last).
- Visit free-admission Santa Clara City's oldest museum, The Triton Museum of Art.
- Take a SJ Walking Tour of one of three surviving Japantowns in the United States that is still in its original location right here in San José.
- Explore one of California's oldest municipal parks founded in 1872, Alum Rock Park.
- Go see the only Guinness Book of World Records attraction and the largest Monopoly Board in the world in San José.
- Navigate the turns of the first fully accessible Labyrinth in the world at the Rosicrucian Park.
- Snap a selfie with Lupe the Mammoth place in the location her bones were found in 2005.
Summer Literacy and Local Libraries Programs
- Reading Lists: BUSD Recommendations I San José Public Library I More recommendations
- Sign up for a Summer Reading Program and earn prizes for reading at your local libraries: SJ Summer Reading Program I SCC Summer Reading Program
- Calling all comics and manga fans, artists, and storytellers! If you like to draw and tell a story submit an entry to San José Public Library's Graphic Novel Making Contest.
