Roaring Camp—in miniature—comes to Sunnyvale’s Heritage Park Museum

Lego training

Sunnyvale’s Heritage Park Museum is featuring a summer exhibit for both railroad and Lego enthusiasts.

Following the success of the museum’s holiday gingerbread village exhibit built with Lego bricks, the Sunnyvale Historical Society is again collaborating with the Bay Area Lego Users Group (BayLUG) for a re-creation of Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton.

To make the display as accurate as possible, BayLUG members took a field trip to Roaring Camp and worked from photographs of the tourist attraction from that outing. The aim was to document every building and feature in the park and re-create them with Lego bricks. The display also includes running trains.

Heritage Park Museum, 570 E. Remington Drive, is open Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-4 p.m. For this exhibit, the museum will be open on Saturday, June 28 and July 19. Admission is $4 for museum members and $5 general. For more information, call 408-749-0220 or visit heritageparkmuseum.org.

July 4 festival

The city of Sunnyvale is hosting a Fourth of July Festival downtown from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The free, family-friendly event features carnival games with toy prizes, an imagination playground a photo booth and live entertainment with performances by Choo Choo Soul with Genevieve and the Peelers Band.

The festival will take place along South Murphy Avenue between East Washington and West McKinley avenues. Cyclists can use the free bike valet on Washington Avenue at Sunnyvale Avenue.

For more information, email Recreation@sunnyvale.ca.gov or visit https://bit.ly/3ZDtYOZ.