SF BAY AREA DAY TRIP ADVENTURE
Destination: Lake Merritt, Oakland
Walk around Lake Merritt, visit Children's Fairyland, and tour the Oakland Museum
3 min readApr 7, 2020
This is part of a series of family-oriented day trip outings around the San Francisco Bay Area I look forward to enjoying with my kids once social distancing and shelter in place isn’t the norm any longer.
Destination: Lake Merritt, Oakland
- Walk around Lake Merritt
- Visit Children’s Fairyland
- Tour the Oakland Museum
Walk around Lake Merritt
- https://www.lakemerritt.org/
- https://www.visitoakland.com/things-to-do/neighborhoods/lake-merritt/
- https://www.thelakechalet.com/
Lake Merritt is technically a tidal lagoon, slightly east of Downtown Oakland. You can stroll the 3.4-mile path around the lake, popular with locals. Along with Children’s Fairyland adjacent to the lake and the Oakland Museum a short walk away, you can rent a boat to go out on the…
