Century Oaks Park

Browns Valley's creek-side pub: $8 kids meals every day and an outdoor patio right by the creek, and dogs are welcome too.

A working education farm tucked inside Napa: kids meet chickens and goats, wander gardens, and get the where-food-comes-from talk from actual farmers.

A hilltop nature park: oak-woodland trails with valley views, and the Carolyn Parr Nature Museum at the entrance, full of hands-on habitat exhibits for kids.

A leafy northwest Napa neighborhood playground off Baywood Lane, a quiet local pick with standard structures and shady sitting.

157 acres of oak-covered hills in northwest Napa: a creek-side canyon, easy looping trails kids can actually finish, and room to roam.