Raw States

Solano Avenue Stroll

Berkeley, CA · Festival

When

September 12, 2027

Where

Solano Ave, The Alameda to San Pablo Ave · Berkeley · CA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Nearly a mile of Solano Avenue between Berkeley and Albany closes for the self-described Mile Long Party, with more than 500 vendor booths, live music, and food along 26 blocks. The Solano Avenue Association has run it for decades as one of the largest single-day street fairs in the East Bay.

The history within reach

• Indian Rock, where California rock climbing was worked out0.5 mi

  In the early 1930s a circle of Sierra Club members including David Brower and Richard Leonard used this rhyolite outcrop to practise rope and belay technique, because they could not reach the High Sierra every weekend.

• Northbrae, the Berkeley suburb with pink sidewalks and globe-topped street pillars0.5 mi

  Northbrae was laid out in the early 1900s as Berkeley pushed north over rough volcanic ground.

• Solano Avenue Stroll0.5 mi

  Nearly a mile of Solano Avenue between Berkeley and Albany closes for the self-described Mile Long Party, with more than 500 vendor booths, live music, and food along 26 blocks.

• Albany was founded by women with shotguns turning back the garbage wagons0.9 mi

  Berkeley arranged to dump its garbage on the rural flats to the north, and the few hundred people living there in the settlement of Ocean View lost every legal argument against it.

• Chez Panisse opens1.1 mi

  Alice Waters ran a single fixed menu each night from whatever local farms had picked, which required building a supply network that barely existed.