Editing Santa Rosa, California (section)

===Tourism===
[[File:SR vineyard.jpg|thumb|While the most expansive vineyards in [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma County]] are in the [[Alexander Valley|Alexander]], [[Russian River Valley|Russian]], and [[Sonoma Valley|Sonoma]] Valleys, Santa Rosa is home to several vineyards, including this one near Fountain Grove.]]
[[File:Hotel La Rose, Downtown Santa Rosa, California,2.jpg|thumb|[[Hotel La Rose]], built in 1907, is a functioning historic hotel in downtown Santa Rosa.]]
Santa Rosa sits at the northwestern gateway to the Sonoma and Napa Valleys of California's famed Wine Country. Many [[winery|wineries]] and [[vineyard]]s are nearby, as well as the [[Russian River (California)|Russian River]] resort area, the Sonoma Coast along the Pacific Ocean, [[Jack London State Historic Park]], and the [[Sequoia sempervirens|redwood]] trees of [[Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve]].

The City Council pays the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce to operate the Santa Rosa Convention & Visitors Bureau.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitsantarosa.com/|website=Visitsantarosa.com|title=Santa Rosa Convention and Visitors Bureau|access-date=September 10, 2014}}</ref> The Chamber's visitors center is in the city-owned old railroad depot at the bottom of Fourth Street, in Historic Railroad Square. The SRC&VB has been a California Welcome Center since 2003.

Downtown Santa Rosa, including the central Old Courthouse Square and historic Railroad Square, is an area of shopping, restaurants, nightclubs, and theaters. Downtown also includes City Hall, state and federal office buildings, many banks, and professional offices. The [[Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital]] medical center is just to the east of downtown.

Although there are co-op network atms and several credit unions, there is no shared branching for credit unions in Santa Rosa.<ref>{{cite web |title=CO-OP Network ATM Locations {{!}} CO-OP Financial Services |url=https://www.co-opfs.org/Shared-Branches-ATMs |website=www.co-opfs.org |access-date=August 29, 2020}}</ref>

The city council funds a private booster group, Santa Rosa Main Street, which lobbies the city to revitalize the traditional business district. Three new mixed-use, high-rise buildings, and a new city parking garage, are under development. (WHEN?) The council and downtown business boosters hope condos atop the new buildings will house a population to keep the area active 24 hours a day.

The nearby cities and towns of [[Bodega Bay, California|Bodega Bay]], [[Calistoga, California|Calistoga]], [[Guerneville, California|Guerneville]], [[Healdsburg, California|Healdsburg]], [[Petaluma, California|Petaluma]], [[Sebastopol, California|Sebastopol]], [[Sonoma, California|Sonoma]], and [[Windsor, California|Windsor]] are popular with tourists and readily accessible from Santa Rosa.

Railroad Square is the portion of downtown that is on the west side of [[U.S. Route 101]] and has the highest concentration of historic commercial buildings. Of particular note are the four rough-hewn stone buildings at its core, two of which are rare in that they predate the 1906 earthquake. They include the old [[Northwestern Pacific Railroad]] depot, prominently seen in the beginning and the end of the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]'', and the still-functioning [[Hotel La Rose]], built in 1907 and registered as one of the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]]'s [[Historic Hotels of America]]. The area contains numerous other historic buildings, such as the former [[Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad]] depot, and the Lee Bros. Building, both at the corner of 4th and Wilson Streets. Near it in the West End district are numerous other old buildings, including not only many old houses but the masonry DeTurk Winery complex, dating to the 1880s–1890s, and the DeTurk [[round barn]]. Also of note nearby is the former [[Del Monte Foods|Del Monte]] Cannery Building, built in 1894. One of the oldest surviving commercial buildings in town, it was renovated into the 6th Street Playhouse in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dramabiz.com/search.php?mode=found&id=164|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120904230517/http://www.dramabiz.com/search.php?mode=found&id=164|title=DramaBiz magazine – Search Page|url-status=usurped<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=September 4, 2012}}</ref>