Marin County for kids: 6 true stories
6 true stories about places you'll pass in Marin County, California. Each one is fact-checked, about 1 min long and ends with a quiz for the back seat. Tap one to play it here, free.
Stories
Inventors and firsts Bumpy Hills and Bouncy Bikes
Look out the window! Do you see a hill?
The first people here The Leader Who Named Marin
Do you live in Marin County? Then guess what!
Trains, ships and planes The Skinny Train Over the Hills
You live in Marin County, a place full of hills. So how did a train ever get over all these hills?
The first people here The Chief Behind the Name
Here's a riddle. The place we're driving through has a name.
Trains, ships and planes The Super Fast Ship Builders
Long ago, not far from here in Marin, there was a giant ship-building place. It sat by the bay in a town called Sausalito, and it was…
Long, long ago The Village That Caught Shrimp
Not far from here, in San Rafael, China Camp is an old Chinese American fishing village beside San Pablo Bay. What did people catch in…How things work: roads, bridges, oceans →All stories →
Between stories: 25 road trip games for kids · Road trip bingo cards · Road trip trivia · Christmas light scavenger hunt · Christmas trivia
Town and county names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).