Staycation Fun in the Bay Area

When lack of time and/or money are keeping you from the vacation of your dreams, try some Bay Area Staycation fun from the following list.  We all can use a break from the routine of our daily lives now and then.  I will be updating this list often and adding more links to provide you more information that will make your visits more enjoyable.  Please feel free to recommend your favorite spots as well.  Any photos that you wish to include please email me at TeamDuff@CEOoftheHouse.com.

Special Holiday Bay Area Staycation Links

Marin County, California

1. Angel Island - State Park – San Francisco Bay
2. Art Start - Mill Valley
3. Bay Area Discovery Museum – Sausalito
4. Cake Art - San Rafael
5. China Town
6. Fish Restaurant - Sausalito
7. Marin County Civic Center Tour - San Rafael
8. Marin Agricultural Land Trust – MALT- Marin
9. The Marine Mammal Center - Sausalito
10. Marin Museum of the American Indian – Novato
11. McInnis Park
12. Mc Near’s Beach County Park
13. Michaels Art Supply - San Rafael
14. Muir Woods - Mill Valley
15. “Off the Grid” - Larkspur
16. Play-Well TEKnologies - San Anselmo
17. Point Reyes
18. San Anselmo Chamber Tours
19. San Francisco Bay-Delta Model - Sausalito
20. Wild Care - San Rafael

Sonoma County

1. BeeKind
2. California Carnivors
3. California Old Faithful
4. Cal Skate - Rohnert Park
5. The Cheese Factory - Petaluma
6. Driven Raceway- Petaluma
7. Glass Fusion Studio of Sebastopol
8. Lala’s Creamery- Petaluma
9. Safari West- Santa Rosa
10. City of Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks- Santa Rosa
11. Screamin Mimi’s- Sebastopol
12. A Day in Sebastopol 
13. Snoopy’s Home Ice- Santa Rosa
14. Spud Point Crab Company- Bodega Bay
15. Train Town- Sonoma

Napa County

1. Gott’s

Presidio / Marina

• Baker Beach
• Balboa Cafe – Plumpjack
• Cliff House – Ocean Beach
• Crissy Field – 28 acre, flying kites
• Fort Mason Center
• Golden Gate Bridge
• House of Air
• Johnny Rockets
• Julius Kahn Playground – Presidio Heights
• Legion of Honor
• Lombard Street
• Mel’s Diners
• Palace of Fine Arts – built in 1915, reconstructed in 1950
• Presidio – 1500 acres
• ROAM
• Sports Basement
• TACKO
• Union Street
• Walt Disney Family Museum
• Wave Organ – 1 Yacht Road

Fisherman’s Wharf

• Alcatraz
• Aquarium of the Bay
• Blazing Saddles
• The Cannery
• Five Alarm Fun  - SF Fire Engine Tours & Adventure
• Ghirardelli Square
• Go Car Tours
• Hyde Street Pier
• Musee Mécanique
• Pier 39
• Rainforest Cafe

Laurel Heights 

• Fire Department Museum

North Beach & Telegraph Hill – Little Italy of San Francisco

• Coit Tower
• Telegraph Hill

Embarcadero / Financial District

• Cartoon Art Museum
• Exploratorium – Pier 15 &17 April 17, 2013
• Ferry Building
• Filbert Steps
• Gott’s Roadside
• Justin Herman Plaza’s Vaillancourt Fountain
• San Francisco Railway Museum
• TCHO – Chocolate Factory Tour
• Wells Fargo History Museum
• Yank Sing

Chinatown – Largest in North America

• Chinese Culture Center
• Chinese Historical Society – 1932 Architect of Hearst Castle and Fairmont, Julia Morgan
• Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Co.
• Kite Shop?
• Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
• Portsmouth Square

Union Square

• Beard Papa’s Cream Puffs
  
• Burger Bar
• Cable Car Turnaround – Powell & Market
• Glide Memorial Church
• Union Square Park

Nob Hill

• Cable Car Museum
• Glass Elevators – Fairmont Hotel
• Grace Cathedral
• Lombard Street

Pacific Heights

• Lyon Street Steps – Pacific Heights
  
• Victorian House Museum – Haas-Lilienthal House

Civic Center / Hayes Valley

• City Hall
• Patxi’s Pizza
• Smitten Ice Cream

Sea Cliff

• China Beach
• Lands End Trail
  

SOMA / Yerba Buena

• AT&T Park
• Beard Papa’s Cream Puffs
• SF Museum of Modern Art
• Yerba Buena Ice Skating & Bowling Center
• Yerba Buena Gardens Play Circle
• Zeum

Mission District

• Bi-Rite Creamery
• Dolores Park
• Dynamo Donuts – Mission District
• La Taqueria – Mission Street
• La Victoria Mexican Bakery – Mission District
• Lovejoy’s Tea Room – Noe Valley
• Mission District – Balmy Ally Murals - www.precitaeyes.org
• Mission Dolores – oldest intact building cemetery to first Californians
• Mitchell’s Ice Cream
• Painted Ladies  - Steiner Street – Alamo Square Park – Full House
• Randall Museum
• St. Francis Fountain
• Vermont Street – “other crookedest street”
• Winfield Street Slide – Bernal Heights

Potrero Hills

•  The Ramp
  

Treasure Island

• Treasure Island
  

Golden Gate Park / Sunset

• California Academy of Science
•  De Young Museum
• Fort Funston - Hang-gliders
• San Francisco Botanical Gardens
• Golden Gate Park
• Golden Gate Park Buffalos
• Golden Gate Park Conservatory of Flowers
• Golden Gate Park Carousel
• Japanese Tea Garden
• Legion of Honor
• SF Zoo
• Speckels Lake – remote-control boats
• Stow Lake (Row Boat)

On the Calendar in SF

• Embarcadero Center Building Lighting (www.embarcaderocenter.com)
• Holiday Ice Skating
• Fleet Week
• Sand Castle Contest at Bakers Beach
• Bay to Breakers

East Bay

1. Fentons Creamery 
   

   Carl and Russell sitting in front of Fenton’s Ice Cream Shop from Up

2. Oakland Museum of CA

Visit one of the National Parks

Please share your favorite Staycation Fun adventures in the comment section!

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