Map: Bay Area’s best picnic spots
Our writers have rounded up a half-dozen of the best places for picnicking in the San Francisco Bay Area. Click the links below for a full report on each, including how to get there and where to pick up a meal on the way.
1 / Marin French Cheese Co. “Set amid rolling hills on a 700-acre dairy farm, its cheese shop and expansive picnic grounds offer a vision of West Marin pastoral heaven.”
2 / Angel Island. “It’s an everyman’s island getaway, an ideal spot for a Bay Area mini-vacation that won’t set you back an entire paycheck.”
3 / Presidio Tunnel Tops. “If you took that old Joni Mitchell lyric – ‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot’ – and turned it on its head, you’d get San Francisco’s stunning new green space.”
4 / Mount Diablo. “From the summit on a clear day, you can see 40 of California’s 58 counties.”
5 / Concannon Vineyard. “Take a table under the grape arbor dripping with tokai table grape vines or a perch on the dog-friendly lawn pavilion.”
6 / Villa Montalvo. “The Bay Area is full of lovely public parks for picnicking. But how many of them offer you 175 acres of lawns, trails and gardens and double as an outdoor art gallery?”