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Restaurant Reviews
Looking for restaurant ideas and recommendations? Visit our Check, Please! Bay Area restaurant reviews all mapped by location.
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Science Walks
These "explorations" are a collection of unique Bay Area excursions for individuals, families and groups with a strong science and nature theme. Created by the QUEST Team with Google Maps and GPS technology to 'geotag' locations and images of what explorers will encounter, these outings are meant to inspire visitors to explore beyond QUEST's television and radio broadcasts and beyond the computer screen.
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Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge Exploration
The nation's first urban National Wildlife Refuge, it's 30,000 acres of open bay, salt pond, salt marsh, mudflat, upland, and vernal pool habitats are constantly changing. This Exploration is an excellent outing for bird-watching, observing native plants and learning about their role in the ecosystem.
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San Andreas Fault Trail Exploration
You probably know that the San Andreas Fault runs nearly the length of the state. But did you know that you can see the fault for yourself? Take a hike at Los Trancos Open Space Preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Palo Alto.
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Elkhorn Slough Exploration
Go on an Exploration of Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, CA. While it offers a variety of rich habitats and vegetation for hundreds of species of birds, fish and other wildlife, it's under constant threat from human activity, pollution and erosion.
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Natural Bridges State Beach Exploration
Between the ocean and the edge of Santa Cruz lies one of the largest monarch butterfly overwintering sites in the western United States. The park also has large coastal scrub meadows that in spring are filled with native wildflowers.
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Art Tours
This series of self-guided Art Tours provides an easy and fun way to explore the thriving Bay Area art scene at your own pace. Each is complete with a printable map of destinations, suggestions on what to wear, how to plan your time, and places to stop and eat along the way.
Downtown San Jose
The downtown SoFA District is quickly becoming a hot destination for art lovers. Its multi-faceted arts scene is growing by the day, offering countless opportunities to experience and engage with the work of local and international artists.
Palo Alto Public Art Tour
This self-guided Public Art Tour will take you to the picturesque, yet quirky grounds of Byxbee Park, past murals from East Palo Alto's student-driven Mural Art Project, then on to Stanford for works from some of the art world's most renowned sculptors, both past and present.
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Oakland Arts Community
Take an inside look into Oakland's vibrant arts community on this 12-stop grand prix tour to see what each space is all about! Before heading out, check out the map that we've created especially for this tour.
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San Francisco Tour of Public Art by Female Artists
The next time you're looking for an art-filled way to spend the day in San Francisco, consider heading outdoors and hitting up these top destinations for public art. We've even offered up a few suggestions for sustenance along the way.
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San Francisco's Glass Arts Tour
Spend a day -- or two -- discovering San Francisco's Glass Arts in a tour designed to give both a historic and a contemporary perspective of this vibrant medium.
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San Francisco Cartoon Art Tour
If you just can't get enough of comic books and cartoon art, devote a day to our San Francisco Cartoon Art Tour where you can delve into cartooning's past, revel in its present and even get to try your hand at creating an animated film.
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Gallery Crawl
Also check out Gallery Crawl videos featuring South Bay art galleries:
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