Picnic tables in San Francisco

634 picnic tables are mapped in San Francisco. 432 of them sit in 59 named parks — here they are, biggest first.

40 of 59
John McLaren Park60 tablesSee this place
Golden Gate Park45 tablesSee this place
Presidio of San Francisco45 tablesSee this place
Lake Merced Park16 tablesSee this place
Crocker Amazon Playground14 tablesSee this place
Lafayette Park14 tablesSee this place
Parklab14 tablesSee this place
Mission Creek Park12 tables2 covered · 3 step-freeSee this place
Francisco Park10 tables1 step-freeSee this place
Lands End10 tablesSee this place
Mission Dolores Park10 tablesSee this place
Balboa Park9 tablesSee this place
Holly Park9 tablesSee this place
Victoria Manalo Draves Park9 tablesSee this place
Glen Canyon Park8 tablesSee this place
West Sunset Playground8 tablesSee this place
Brannan Street Wharf7 tables1 step-freeSee this place
Robert Pender Park7 tablesSee this place
Bayshore Heights Park6 tablesSee this place
Heron's Head Park6 tablesSee this place
Marchbank Park6 tablesSee this place
Mariposa Park6 tablesSee this place
Mission Playground6 tablesSee this place
Ocean View Park6 tablesSee this place
Alamo Square5 tablesSee this place
Raymond Kimbell Playground5 tablesSee this place
Westlake Park5 tablesSee this place
China Basin Park4 tablesSee this place
Garfield Square4 tablesSee this place
Gilman Playground4 tablesSee this place
McCoppin Square4 tablesSee this place
Pine Lake Park4 tablesSee this place
Argonne Community Garden3 tablesSee this place
Bayview Gateway3 tablesSee this place
Broderick-Terry Duel Landmark Park3 tablesSee this place
Brooks Park3 tablesSee this place
Frankfort Park3 tablesSee this place
Lincoln Park3 tablesSee this place
Potrero Del Sol Park3 tablesSee this place
South Park3 tablesSee this place

A further 202 are mapped outside any named park — along foreshores, on reserves and in places OpenStreetMap has not named. They are counted in the total above but cannot be listed by name.

Picnic tables are the part of a park that decides whether a meal happens there. A table means you can lay out a board, cut something, and eat without balancing a plate on your knees — and it is the single most requested piece of park furniture that maps rarely tell you about.

What the map cannot tell you is shade. A table in full sun at one o'clock in July is a table nobody uses, and OpenStreetMap almost never records tree cover over a specific table. Arrive early or scout the tree line.

Nor does it record whether the table is bolted near a bin, a tap or a toilet — the three things that turn a table into a usable picnic spot. Larger regional parks are the safe bet for all three.

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Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Facilities change; check locally before you plan a meal around one. openstreetmap.org/copyright · 634 of them are mapped in OpenStreetMap as of 2026-08-23.