Save the Date: Tour Day 2026 at Lake Merritt

Image: Oakland Monster by Robert Winston. Courtesy of the Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room

For many in the Bay Area, Lake Merritt is beautiful, civic, gleaming, and strange, as only the vast possibilities of public space can conjure. Its mid-century years, 1945-1976, are the focus of Docomomo Northern California’s Tour Day, in the spirit of Docomomo US’s theme of “Recreation and Play.”

Tour Day 2026 at Lake Merritt will explore biomorphic, geodesic, and brutalist structures that shaped mid‑century recreation and play in the heart of Oakland, and will consider what this multi‑scalar landscape reveals about the lasting impacts of modernism and urban renewal on public space today.

When: Saturday, October 10, 2026 / 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where: Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
Ticket Prices: $20 Docomomo-US/NOCA Members with Promo Code / $30 Non-Members