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Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks are open, green spaces close to downtown Pleasanton.
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4501 First Street
Pleasanton
CA
94566
http://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/gov/depts/cs/parks/wayside___delucchi.asp
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A family-friendly park for the great play area and full basketball court.
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Lathrop Ave & Tocoloma Ave
San Francisco
CA
94134
+1 415.831.5500
http://sfrecpark.org/destination/little-hollywood-park/
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A little rectangle green space that's hidden a little away from the main road. A favorite destination that is a favorite of runners, dog walkers, skaters, etc.
Nice views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the bay.
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Little Marina Green
San Francisco
CA
94123
415.831.5500
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Live Oak Park, the site of several community festivals, offers a range of recreational opportunities, with basketball and tennis courts, a community center, and tot and school-age play areas.
Features of the Park include:
- Paths through grov...
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1301 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley
CA
94709
510.981.6700
https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/parks-recreation/parks/live-oak-park
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The Los Gatos Creek County Dog Park is available for dogs of all sizes, located just south of San Tomas Expressway in Campbell at 1250 Dell Avenue adjacent to the Los Gatos Creek Trail. Built by the City of Campbell, with a contribution from Town of...
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1250 Dell Avenue
Campbell
CA
95008
+1 408.355.2200
http://www.ci.campbell.ca.us/Recreation/parks/parkinfoDogPark.htm
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2008 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Third Place
Best Place to Be Seen
Sure, people hit the Los Gatos Creek Trail for a bit of exercise and fresh air, but the leafy path also offers a good look at your fellow man and woman in all thei...
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West Main Street and Santa Cruz Avenue
Los Gatos
CA
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The Town Plaza is located at the corner of W. Main Street and Santa Cruz Avenue in downtown Los Gatos. This quaint park features an interactive water fountain, planters, benches, lawn area and walkways.
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A favorite picnic spot, this recently improved playground is also the perfect place to watch ducks and birds on nearby McNab Lake. Choose from dozens of picnic areas, or rent the clubhouse for your private event. Sports fans will be happy to find two...
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1150 Wayland Street
San Francisco
CA
94134
https://sfrecpark.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Louis-Sutter-Playground-254
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Lovers Point Park is located at the foot of 17th Street, and is a landscaped community park of 4.4 acres. It is used for picnicking, fishing, swimming, water sports, and surfing. Lovers Point's amenities include a large lawn area, a beach volleyba...
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17th Street at Ocean View Blvd.
Pacific Grove
CA
93950
+1 831.373.3304
http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/recreation/p-loverspt.htm
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Mandeville Tip County Park is on Singapore Island, near Mandeville Island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta located about 15 miles northwest of Stockton, in central California in the United States. The island lies between the Old River to the west...
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Manresa State Beach features a beautiful expanse of sea and sand, with surf fishing, surfing, and recreation.
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Mare Island is a peninsula in the United States in the city of Vallejo, California, about 23 miles (37 km) northeast of San Francisco. The Napa River forms its eastern side as it enters the Carquinez Strait juncture with the east side of San Pablo Ba...
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The Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve is a 215-acre park located at the south end of Mare Island on land that formerly served as the U.S. Navy's first Naval Ammunition Depot, founded in 1857.
Mare Island boasts some of the most undiscove...
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The Marin Headlands houses an amazing richness of biological diversity due to the variety of habitats and unique geology of the area.
Discover the many cultures that have called the Marin Headlands home. This includes the history of the Miwok Indian...
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Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Marin County
CA
94502
+1 415.331.1540
https://www.nps.gov/goga/marin-headlands.htm
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The coastal dunes along our south Monterey Bay form a narrow edge between former dunes where we live and the bay. This strip of land is steadily changing from wind and wave forces. During especially strong winter storms, this change can be quite obvi...
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Dunes Drive
Marina
CA
93933
+1 831.372.3196
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The Marina Green is a strip of lawn that overlooks some of the most scenic places in the San Francisco Bay, from the Golden Gate Bridge, to Alcatraz, to Angel Island.
There is a small marina where a few boats are docked but most people use the par...
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Located off Monarch Bay Drive near Fairway Drive, this 30-acre regional park that borders the beautiful San Leandro Shoreline. Amenities include picnic areas with barbecue grills, play apparatus, three newly renovated large group picnic areas, a larg...
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14001 Monarch Bay Drive
San Leandro
CA
94577
+1 510.577.3462
https://www.sanleandro.org/depts/rec/parks/marina.asp
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3 lighted tennis courts, parking lot and restrooms, lawn area. Home to the Sausalito Art Festival. A popular dog-walk / run area.
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Once the site of railroad car turnaround, Mariposa Park is an expansive sundrenched lawn and a trellis-shaded plaza where people of all ages can play and enjoy.
* 2.38 acres grass lawn and walking paths
* Small kids play area for children 2-14 y...
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Mariposa Street at Hospital Street
San Francisco
CA
94158
+1 415.543.9063
http://missionbayparks.com/mariposa-park/http://missionbayparks.com/mariposa-park/
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The Martin Luther King Park offers a playground, basketball courts, baseball and soccer fields, a full service community center, and a swimming pool. It also has one small picnic area.
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725 Monte Diablo
San Mateo
CA
94401
+1 650.522.7434
http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?NID=2447
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Considered a home away from home for a hand full of Berkeley High students and the home of a section of the world wide and world renowned Peace Wall is Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Park. It's a fairly small park but it certainly has it's share o...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Center Street
Berkeley
CA
94704
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=12700
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This park has a soccer field, baseball field, playground area for kids with a modern play structure, surrounded by picnic tables and bbq pits.
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435 Daisy Lane
East Palo Alto
CA
94303
650.853.3149
https://www.cityofepa.org/parksrec/page/martin-luther-king-park
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Next to the commercial bustle of Oakland International Airport is a 741-acre park leased from the Port of Oakland, protecting the remainder of a once-extensive marshland at San Leandro Bay
At the intersection of Doolittle Drive and Swan Way is the...
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Martinez Waterfront Park is located off Joe Di Maggio Drive. This large open space has wonderful scenery and amenities aplenty. The picnic tables are often reserved for birthday parties.
AMENITIES:
Amphitheater
Baseball/Softball Field(s)
Bocce...
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245 N. Court Street
Martinez
CA
94553
925.372.3510
https://www.cityofmartinez.org/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/34/205
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Marx Meadow offers a delightful picnic spot on its centrally located grassy stretch of the park. It is also nestled right in the middle of one of the park's signature attractions: the Disc Golf Course! Come play -- and stay for a picnic today!
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25th and Fulton
San Francisco
CA
94117
+1 415.831.2700
http://sfrecpark.org/wp-content/uploads/MarxMeadow-overview.pdf
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Máyyan 'Ooyákma - Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve connects over 1 million acres of important habitat in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Diablo Range. Comprised of rare, sensitive serpentine grasslands, this unique landscape is a biodiversity hotspo...
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McCoppin Square features a playground that has both a Tot Lot and school-aged play areas, ADA accessible pathways with site lighting, a baseball field with bleachers, a half basketball court and tennis court, a contemplative garden with seating, and...
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1300 Taraval Street
San Francisco
CA
94116
+1 415.235.4576
http://sfrecpark.org/destination/mccoppin-square/
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McCovey Cove is the unofficial name of a section of San Francisco Bay beyond the right field wall of AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, named after famed Giants first baseman Willie McCovey. The proper name for the cove is China Basin, whic...
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3rd Street and Terry Francois Street
San Francisco
CA
94114
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCovey_Cove
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McInnis Park offers an award-winning skatepark, two softball fields, two soccer fields, a kayak / canoe launch, four tennis courts, a group picnic area, and nature trails. It is home to the McInnis Park Golf Center, managed by a private concessionair...
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310 Smith Ranch Road
San Rafael
CA
94903
+1 415.446.4423
http://www.marincounty.org/depts/pk/divisions/parks/mcinnis-park
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Four years after California was declared a "free and sovereign State" within the Mexican republic in 1836, Governor Juan Batista Alvarado granted what is now known as McLaren Park to the local government in 1840. Subdivision plans for the land grant...
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Access from Mansell St.
San Francisco
CA
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415-239-5378
http://www.jennalex.com/projects/fomp/homepage/index.html
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Set in a beautiful sheltered cove with mature landscaping, this 55 acre regional park is located along the shores of San Pablo Bay in San Rafael, southeast of China Camp State Park. The fishing pier is extremely popular—anglers fish for sturgeo...
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201 Cantera Way
San Rafael
CA
94901
+1 415.446.4424
http://www.marincountyparks.org/depts/pk/divisions/parks/mcnears-beach
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McNee Ranch State Park is one of California's newest parks. Located only 25 miles from San Francisco, it can provide some of the Bay Area's best lookouts from the top of Montara Mountain. McNee Ranch State Park is located on the San Mateo County coas...
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24176 Mission Blvd
Hayward
CA
94541
510.881.6700
http://www.haywardrec.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Memorial-Park-68
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There's a humbling feeling when you're in the presence of redwoods. A gentle peace envelops you like a fog that drifts in. This peace is found every day at Memorial Park. Its 673 acres provides an opportunity to view outstanding old-growth redwoods a...
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Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens was founded in 1961 by retired nurseryman Ernest Schoefer and his wife, Betty. Ernest's keen eye spotted the ample supply of water augmented by the mild coastal climate and quality soil essential to acid-loving plant...
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Mendocino Headlands State Park with its unique blend of gentle trails, rugged coastline, secluded beaches and timeless history surrounds the picturesque Village of Mendocino on three sides. Miles of trails wind along the cliffs, giving the casu...
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This 347-acre green belt, on the headlands between Highway One and the Pacific Ocean, surrounds the town of Mendocino. Sheer bluffs rising from a rocky shoreline form the park's southern section. The historic Ford House Visitor Center (built in 1854)...
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The Mendocino Woodlands State Park is a year-round group camping retreat facility and environmental center nestled in the heart of the Redwood Forest, just Northeast of the town of Mendocino. A 720 acre park, the Woodlands offers three private group...
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Menke Park is a cute little park and informal picnic area surrrounded by shops. Piccolo Pavilion makes for the perfect little stage for theater, community, and music events.
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Redwood Avenue at Corte Madera Avenue
Corte Madera
CA
94925
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