Day Trips
Meet a Giant Furry Cow & a Zonkey at American Made Miniatures Farm
Located in Petaluma, American Made Miniatures Farm Sanctuary is incredible, your kids will beg to revisit for years to come. I brought 6 kids.
Open with Advance Booking: Fremont’s Ardenwood Historic Farm
Ardenwood Farm is a working farm and a trip back in time, to a place where Laura Ingalls might have lived, without the Minnesota snow.
Tubing and Sledding near the Bay Area
Celebrate Family-friendly Lunar New Year in the Bay Area
As the Year of the Ox approaches, celebrating Lunar New Year around the Bay Area is mostly at home. Here’s how make the most of it with kids
Now Open by Appointment: Hidden Villa Farm in Los Altos Hills
About an hour from Oakland, get your family’s quarantine wiggles out at Hidden Villa with friendly farm animals and lots of room to run in the woods!
5 East Bay Spots to Get Even Wetter on a Rainy Day
Magical Bridge in Palo Alto: Inclusive Playground Worth the Drive
You’ve gotta see this Palo Alto playground that is truly and uniquely for everyone: all ages, abilities and sizes.
Still Open: Mini Golf at Scandia and GolfLand with Tee Times
Socially Distanced mini golf is open at Scandia by appointment. It’s cheap, it’s chill, and it felt like a low risk outing. We’ll go again for sure.
Day Trip to Bay Area Discovery Museum
Leland Snow Play: Tubing Fun for All Ages
At Leland Snow Play, tickets allow you to ride tubes down a man-made hill as many times as you like, all-day access or for a 2-hour ticket.