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Children's Fairyland, Oakland, CA

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Children's Fairyland

A 10-acre storybook park for young children on the shore of Lake Merritt in Oakland.

699 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610 · Oakland, CA

About Children's Fairyland

Children's Fairyland is an outdoor storybook park on the shore of Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Its roughly ten acres hold play sets, small rides, animals, and puppet shows, and it is aimed at families with little ones. The park also houses the Open Storybook Puppet Theater, which Wikipedia describes as the oldest continuously operating puppet theater in the United States. Visitors can use Magic Keys to hear tales from talking storybook boxes scattered around the grounds.

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