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Sports in the Bay Area

For more places to go hiking, biking or climbing, see our section on outdoor destinations.

Places to Play Sports

Golf

There are many golf courses in the area, a few local ones are listed below:

Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course
1875 Embarcadero Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3333
(650) 856-0881

For over 50 years, Palo Alto Golf Course, conveniently located in heart of Silicon Valley, has welcomed golfers to play a round of golf. Opened in 1956 Palo Alto has long been known as the location for daily-fee golf that will challenge your skills and please your eyes.

Blackberry Farm Golf Course
22100 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 253-9200

Blackberry Farm is a nine-hole facility with a Par of 29. We have seven par 3�s and two par 4�s. The total yardage is 1544 yards from the men�s tees. Blackberry Farm is set along the bank of Stevens Creek with narrow tree lined fairways and small greens. Accuracy will be needed to score well here and it provides an excellent opportunity to improve your skills. Open dawn to dark everyday.

Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course
605 Macara Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-2809
(408) 738-3666

Sunnyvale Golf Course is a par 70 regulation 18-hole course with numerous bunkers, dog legs and water holes. Sunnyvale is a well-manicured test of the player's skill stretching out to 6,255 yards.

Stanford University Golf Course
91 Links Road
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 323-0944

The Stanford driving range and golf course are not available to campus visitors. Members of the Stanford golfing community (faculty, students, etc.) may arrange for guests to accompany them up to two rounds per month. See the website for specifics on policies, privileges and rules.

Disc Golf

Hellyer Park
9 Holes - Mach 3/5
985 Hellyer Ave, San Jose

Chabot Park
9 Holes - Mach 2
San Leandro

Berkeley Aquatic Park
18 Holes - Mach 3
80 Bolivar Dr, Berkeley

Golden Gate Park
18 Holes - Mach 3
San Francisco

Indoor Rock Climbing

Planet Granite Indoor Rock Climbing Gym
100 El Camino Real, Belmont
(650) 591-3030

Berkeley IronWorks (Touchstone)
800 Potter Street; Berkeley
(510) 981-9900

Bridges Rock Gym
5635 San Diego Street; El Cerrito
(510) 525-5635

City Beach Rock Climbing
4020 Technology Place; Fremont

Twister's Rock Climbing Gym
2639 Terminal Blvd., Mountain View
(650) 969-1636
(650) 967-5581

Great Western Power Co.
520 20th St., Oakland
(510) 452-2022

Mission Cliffs (Touchstone)
2295 Harrison Street, San Francisco
(415) 550-0515

Touchstone Rock Climbing & Fitness Gym
200 S. 1st Street #70, San Jose
(408) 920-6000

Planet Granite Rock Climbing Gym
815 Stewart Dr., Sunnyvale
(408) 991-9090

Bowling

Bel Mateo
24 Lanes
4330 Olympic Ave, San Mateo

Strike Cupertino
32 Lanes
10123 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino

AMF Bowling Centers
Six locations around the bay area. The closest to Stanford is:
Redwood Lanes
2580 El Camino Real, Redwood City

Palo Alto Bowling
32 Lanes
4329 El Camino Real, Palo Alto

Brentwood Bowl Coffee Shop
237 El Camino Real, So. San Francisco
(650) 583-1056

Fishing

Many local charters leave from the San Francisco Bay and other local ports. Non-resident fishing licenses are available from local sporting good stores, and are sometimes arranged by the fishing charter operators. This local website is full of relevant information and links to local charters if you are interested in catching fish when you aren�t at ICED.

Road Biking

There are a lot of biking opportunities in the SF Bay Area. The best way to pick a ride is to find a route posted online and follow that. Here's some good sites to look through:

Bay Area Bicycle Maps

511.org provides extensive information for getting around the Bay Area. In this subsection, they focus on biking, and provide links to downloadable bike maps for a number of Bay Area counties and cities as well as a bike mapper application (if it's working).

Ride Bike!

These 14 routes, specified out with variations for beginners and intermediate riders when possible, mostly start and end in the east bay, often from the Orinda BART area. From the Route Descriptions page, click on the title of the ride for the detailed route instructions.

SF Bay Area Bike Rides

Most of these rides (15 in total) are 40 to 60 miles long, and include some climbing. The rides are presented to highlight the best that the area has to offer. Longer or shorter loops can often be constructed to customize your ride. Two rides starting in Palo Alto are included.

Water Sports

Wind Surfing at Crissy Field

See the surf conditions in the Bay Area, then go surfing.

Places to Watch Sports

Baseball

The Giants will be playing at home (San Franciso) from Tuesday 25 August through Sunday 30 August. The Giants have night games (7:15 PM start) on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday vs. the Arizona Diamondbacks. They have a Friday evening (7:15 PM) game against the Colorado Rockies, followed by a Saturday game with the Rockies starting at 6:05 PM. The Sunday 30 August game vs. the Rockies starts at 1:05 PM. Info and tickets can be found on the team website.

The Oakland Athletics will be playing out of town during the week of ICED '09. If you are planning to visit a few extra days, the A's will be playing a home (Oakland) games against the Detroit Tigers shortly before ICED, and against the Kansas City Royals after the weekend following ICED.

Soccer (football)

The San Jose Earthquakes will be playing the Kansas City Wizards at the Buck Shaw stadium in Santa Clara on Saturday 22 August at 7:30 PM. Ticket prices range from $20 to $60 each for this game. Additional service charges may apply.

Stanford's Men's Soccer team is playing Sonoma State on Thursday 20 August at 11 AM and St. Mary's on Tuesday 25 August at 7 PM. Both games are on campus

(American) Football

The San Francisco 49ers have a pre-season game against rival team The Oakland Raiders on Saturday 22 August at 5:15 PM in Candlestick Park. Both teams are out of town the following weekend.