Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival Arts Festival / Food & Drink Event / Music Festival / Wine Festival Every year in August

The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival – more commonly referred to as just Outside Lands – is an annual music festival held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park that features a huge assortment of live music, often from more than 75 different performers.

Launched in 2008 and typically scheduled over the third or fourth weekend in August, Outside Lands has attracted more than 50,000 fans a day in recent years, and is usually streamed live on YouTube for those (apparently few people) who can’t make it to the park.

Visitors to Outside Lands can expect five stages packed with A-list talent over the course of three days, as well as up-and-coming musicians who have just begun to garner a solid following.

Previous Outside Land performers have included Pearl Jam, Incubus, Thievery Corporation, Tom Jones, Silversun Pickups, The National, Q-Tip, Built to Spill, Midnite, Kinky, Tea Leaf Green, Autolux, The Dodos, Los Campesinos!, Akron/Family, The Duke Spirit, Zee Avi, Blind Pilot, SambaDa, West Indian Girl, and hundreds more.

Music isn’t the only thing on offer during Outside Lands, which has also grown into quite the food and wine event as well. Attendees can expect to find a separate “wine lands” section of the park where they can sample a host of grapey goodness, as well as a sports lounge, an arcade/bar, and multiple food and art vendors.

The Outside Lands festival is also organized to be as eco-friendly as possible, with solar power stages, a refillable water program, a waste diversion program, a recycling program, and a bike valet parking program. Past years have also hosted workshops to educate about organic food and farming.

Outside Lands tickets often sell out well in advance, so it’s wise to grab yours as soon as possible A three-day pass to Outside Lands usually runs from around $160–$225, depending on how early you get it, while a single-day ticket is typically around $99.

Booze and food is extra during Outside Lands, and visitors can expect to spend around $10 for a meal and anywhere between $9 and $14 for booze…so pre-gaming might not be a bad idea.