Stay, steam at
the Lions Gate Hotel
McClellan, Calif.
Get the full steamup experience while
taking advantage of a low room rate

If you've never attended a small-scale live steamup, you might think that you could stay anywhere near the event, that it just doesn't matter. You'd been wrong in this assumption. The ease of moving back-and-forth between your room and the steamup room gives you the opportunity to rest -- or run out and play trains -- pretty much anytime you want.

If you've been to a steamup, we don't have to tell you that the best way to experience it is to stay at the steamup hotel.

The Lions Gate Hotel, in McClellan Park (a former U.S. Air Force base adjacent to the Sacramento suburb of North Highlands) is a high-quality hotel that provides luxurious rooms at an extremely low rate. The hotel is in a campus-like setting and we will have an entire building, the Garden Pavilion, for steaming.

Executives at the Lions Gate have been persuaded to provide attendees of the National Summer Steamup 2008 with a nightly room rate that is ridiculously low for the Sacramento area: $84 a night (single- or double-occupancy, plus tax). This low price also includes a buffet breakfast in the hotel's restaurant.

Let's be honest: hotels want full sleeping rooms, not necessarily full ballrooms. What we pay to rent the ballroom is directly related to how many rooms we've filled.

While there may be less expensive rooms in the area, your stay at the Lions Gate shows your support for the National Summer Steamup and that you are concerned that it will continue into the future.

The Lions Gate is located at the junction of Business Interstate 80 and Interstate 80, 10 miles from downtown Sacramento.

The hotel is 20 minutes from the Sacramento International Airport and is eight miles from Interstate 5, making driving in from the north or south easy.

For those interested in other aspects of the steam train hobby, Northern California provides a variety of unique rail and live steam experiences: