Top 3 Tourist Things To Do While You Are In Oakland For One Day

Oakland has been named after the shady oak trees native to this area. Oakland is the smaller city across the San Francisco Bay that has become a hip up-and-coming destination on its own. While Oakland used to be considered a nondescript manufacturing city nowadays the town has real style and much of the locally made goods are handcrafted artisanal products. A true melting pot Oakland is also home to a diverse population, the city's vibrant African American community brought traditional soul food. Immigrants from all over the world have opened Ethiopian, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Thai, and other authentic ethnic restaurants that provide an immense variety of culinary options.



Top 3 Things to do and see in Oakland

Go on a tour on an old presidential Yacht

1.  The US Potomac was built in 1934 and is widely known for serving as President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht.

2.It has been nicknamed the floating white house, the USS Potomac served great use to FDR as he used it for leisure and informal political meetings.  After his death, it was bought by Elvis Presley who gave it as a fundraising item to Saint Jude’s Children Hospital.

Lake Merritt  


                                           

1. Lake Merritt is surrounded by luxuriant trees and verdant lawns. Lake Merritt has idyllic parkland at the heart of the city.

2. Because the lake is a tidal lagoon filled with seawater it is home to a marvellous variety of birdlife such as Canadian geese, the pelicans, the snowy egret, and black cormorants.

3. It was established in 1870, this is one of the oldest designated wildlife refuges in the country.

Go for a hike in Redwood Regional Park

Just a few miles away from downtown Oakland is the hushed sanctuary of the Redwood Regional Park and the natural grove is lush with 150 sequoias evergreen and grasslands. The parks 1830 are crisscrossed by hiking trails and populated by a woodland menagerie.



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