Safetyville USA, Traffic safety education park in Sacramento, California.
Safetyville USA is an educational park in Sacramento that recreates a functioning city at one-third scale, complete with streets, traffic signals, crosswalks, and scaled buildings. The site includes replica shops, government offices, and public facilities, all equipped with working traffic infrastructure.
The park opened in 1984 as a hands-on learning environment for teaching road safety to children. Over the decades, the concept has remained focused on practical experience as a foundation for understanding traffic rules and emergency response.
Children from preschool through third grade tour the town with trained volunteer guides, and each child mayor presides at the Halloween Haunt and the Family Health and Safety Expo. The mascot unveiled at the 25th birthday in 2009 is a dog in a blue cap and red vest. Groups practice a real 911 call and the stop, drop, and roll technique on site.
Safetyville USA occupies a little over 3 acres within the Safety Center, Inc. campus in Sacramento. Tours are led by trained volunteer guides for children from preschool age through third grade, and about 10,000 children visit each year. Groups should allow time for walking the miniature streets and for the fire-station video and quiz.
Children on the Safetyville tour practise a real 911 call, dialling the number and speaking with an operator, and rehearse "stop, drop, and roll" on the spot during the fire-safety stop. The miniature town also has its own child mayor, who presides at the Halloween Haunt and the Family Health and Safety Expo.
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