A small town on the Sacramento River levee in the Delta, about 50 kilometres south of Sacramento, that is the last intact rural Chinatown in the United States. Locke was built in 1915 by Chinese-American farm workers who had been displaced from nearby Walnut Grove by fire, and its main street — a single block of two-story wooden buildings with covered sidewalks — remains essentially unchanged since the 1920s.
At its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, Locke had 600 residents, six restaurants, six gambling halls, a boarding house, and a school. Today fewer than 10 people live here full-time, and the buildings are preserved more or less in their last-occupied state. The Dai Loy Gambling Hall museum is open on weekends. The drive from Sacramento through the Delta levee roads is part of the experience.