Tourism

Weather

The average high temperature in the Stanford area in October is 73°F. "California casual" is appropriate for daytime and most evening outings and is acceptable for all conference activities. A sweater or light jacket is suggested for evenings. (More weather information)

Tourism

• Local Restaurant Guides
• Visitor Information
• Events at Stanford
• Museums (Art and Science)
• Performing Arts
• Hiking / Outdoors
• 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

Events at Stanford

• Events at Stanford University
• Stanford Jazz Festival

Museums

• Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
• Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University)
• Chabot Space & Science Center (Oakland)
• Golden Gate Park (San Francisco)
  • California Academy of Sciences (Steinhart Aquarium, Natural History Museum, Morrison Planetarium)
  • Conservatory of Flowers
  • deYoung Museum of Art (re-opens Oct 15, 2005)
  • Garden of Shakespeare's Flowers
  • Japanese Tea Garden
  • Strybing Arboretum
• Lawrence Hall of Science (Berkeley)
• Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey)
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco)
• San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose)
• The Exploratoruim (San Francisco)
• The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum (Santa Cruz)
• The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose)
• Computer History Museum

Performing Arts

• Concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area
• San Francisco Opera
• San Francisco Symphony
• San Francisco Ballet
• Villa Montalvo Arts Center - outdoor concerts (Saratoga)

Hiking / Outdoors

• Bay Area Hiker: Peninsula and South Bay Hikes (Menlo Park / Palo Alto)
• Blair Island Aquatic Center
• East Bay Regional Park District
• Elkhorn Slough (Monterey Bay)
• 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)
• Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (San Francisco)
• Marine Mammal Center (Sausalito)
• Hakone Japanese Gardens (Saratoga)
• Half Moon Bay beach

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