Tourism

• Local Restaurant Guides
• Visitor Information
• Events at Stanford
• Museums
• Performing Arts
• Hiking / Outdoors / Gardens
• Amusement Parks
• Extended Day Trips

Local Restaurant Guides

• RestaurantRow.com: List of Menlo Park restaurants (be careful -- some restaurants are outside of the Menlo Park/Palo Alto area)
• ActiveDiner.com: List of Menlo Park restaurants

Visitor Information

• Stanford Visitor’s Information
• Go California: San Francisco Bay Area

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Events at Stanford

• Events at Stanford University
• Stanford Jazz Festival

Museums

• Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University)
• The Exploratorium (San Francisco)
• Golden Gate Park (San Francisco)
• Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
• California Academy of Sciences (Steinhart Aquarium, Natural History Museum, Morrison Planetarium)
• Conservatory of Flowers
• deYoung Museum of Art (closed until summer 2005)
• Garden of Shakespeare's Flowers
• Japanese Tea Garden
• Strybing Arboretum
• Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
• San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose)
• The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose)
• The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum (Santa Cruz)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey)

Performing Arts

• San Francisco Opera (limited summer program)
• San Francisco Symphony
• San Francisco Ballet (special summer program)
• Villa Montalvo Arts Center - outdoor concerts (Saratoga)

Hiking / Outdoors

• Bay Area Hiker: Peninsula and South Bay Hikes (Menlo Park / Palo Alto)
• County of San Mateo Park Trails (Menlo Park area)
• County of Santa Clara Find a Park (Palo Alto area)
• Golden Gate National Recreation Area (San Francisco / Marin)
• Hakone Japanese Garden (Saratoga)

Amusement Parks

• Paramount's Great America (Santa Clara)
• Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (Santa Cruz)
• Six Flags Marine World (Vallejo)

Extended Day Trips

South:

• Santa Cruz County
• Go Monterey  
• Carmel

North:

• Napa Valley Online
• Go Sonoma
• Calistoga