Outside Lands  has been a destination for music fans from around the world for more than a decade. Set in the west end of San Francisco’s picturesque Golden Gate Park, the fog-shrouded music festival is known for showcasing icons and upstarts alike.

Among the stars who have performed on the festival’s main stage, amid the century-old canopy of trees on the Polo Field, since the festival started in 2008 are  Paul McCartney,  Elton John,  Neil Young,  Janet Jackson  and Radiohead. But in recent years, Outside Lands has been a launchpad for younger acts that often graduate from afternoon sets on side stages to headline status. If you’re not yet familiar with Wet Leg, 100 Gecs, the Marías, Kim Petras and Benny Sings, Outside Lands will probably make a fan out of you before the weekend is over.

The three-day outdoor event was postponed a few times in 2020 because of the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, before making its return over Halloween weekend in 2021. This year, promoters are eager to bring the full in-person experience back to the park in its usual summer slot, Friday-Sunday, Aug. 5-7.

Beyond the music, Outside Lands is known for offering a variety of attractions, from art installations, pop-up dance venues, a section devoted to cannabis connoisseurs, an array of local food vendors, and countless sponsored cabanas offering haircuts, organic produce, phone charging stations and other distractions to keep the festival’s 75,000 daily attendees on the move.

The Outside Lands festival is set to return to Golden Gate Park on the first weekend of August, with six stages spread across the Polo Field, Hellman Hollow, Speedway Meadow and Marx Meadow. Festival gates open at 11 a.m. each day, and music starts at noon with a strict curfew of 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5-6, and 9:40 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7.

Bay Area punk icons  Green Day, rapper Post Malone and Grammy-winning singer SZA are among the headliners for the 14th annual  Outside Lands festival.

More than 90 artists are on this year’s lineup, including Wet Leg, Kali Uchis, Rina Sawayama, Polo & Pan, Pusha T, Dominic Fike, Mac DeMarco, Kim Petras, Parcels and Washed Out.

“We are ecstatic to unveil this year’s lineup, which is one of the most dynamic and diverse we’ve ever had,” Allen Scott, co-founder of Outside Lands and president of concerts and festivals at Another Planet Entertainment, said in a statement.

Other popular acts on the bill include Weezer, Jack Harlow, Lil Uzi Vert, Disclosure and Mitski.

The festival will keep at least one element from last year’s event: the SoMa Tent. Inspired by the iconic dance clubs in  San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, the pop-up space is expected to return with   nine hours of performances each day.

Among the headliners in the tent are San Francisco DJ Claude VonStroke, German house and techno DJ and producer Dixon, and Los Angeles producer Tokimonsta, alongside acts like Avalon Emerson, J. Worra, Major League DJz, Ellen Allien and more.

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Leave your car at home. Parking in and around the festival is extremely limited — if not impossible — and chances are good the weekend will end with you retrieving your vehicle from the impound lot.

If you can’t walk, grab an electric scooter, ride a bike or take public transportation. The N-Judah Muni Metro and the bus lines 5-Fulton, 7-Haight/Noriega, 28-19th Avenue, 29-Sunset, 31-Balboa and 38-Geary will get you close enough to the festival site in Golden Gate Park.

While BART doesn’t offer direct service to Golden Gate Park, festivalgoers can take BART and transfer to Muni. It plans to run regular service until around midnight during the three days of the festival.

Outside Lands offers free on-site bicycle parking. There’s also a  shuttle service  from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for those arriving via BART. The cost starts at $24 and goes up to $60, plus fees, depending on the tier of service. The shuttle fee does not include admission to the festival, and your festival pass does not count as a shuttle ticket.

Following the lead of other major U.S. concerts, festivals and sports events, Outside Lands has dropped its COVID-19 requirements for 2022. “However, for the safety of everyone, we highly recommend that all attendees are vaccinated and boosted, and we highly encourage everyone to mask up when unable to distance from others,” Another Planet says on the festival website, noting that the protocols may change under mandates from city and state officials.

Outside Lands is different from other large-scale festivals such as Southern California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Lollapalooza in Chicago, not only for its lineups but for its geography. Set in a gorgeous expanse of green near San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, the festival is almost always blanketed with fog before the sun goes down. Then the temperature dips low enough to leave the T-shirt-wearing masses queuing up for ponchos and blankets as the headliner takes the stage. The overall mood is very chill — by every definition of the word.

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Some of the Bay Area’s buzziest new restaurants will be serving food at the Outside Lands, joining the largest food lineup the three-day summer event has ever offered. There will be 90 restaurants, 35 wineries and 30 breweries on site.

Newcomers to the festival include popular  East Bay restaurants  Daytrip,  Wahpepah’s Kitchen  and  Jo’s Modern Thai, as well as San Francisco’s Quik Dog and pandemic pop-up Sandy’s, known for its New Orleans-style muffuletta sandwiches. Native American restaurant Wahpepah’s Kitchen plans to serve up kickapoo chili and fry bread tacos, while  Pan-African soul food pop-up the Bussdown, also new to the festival this year, will bring jerk chicken rice bowls and mac and cheese with Geechee-style prawns.

Meanwhile, 73 restaurants are expected to make a return appearance at Outside Lands, from Richmond  quesabirria hit El Garage (named  one of the best five dishes to eat at the festival last year) to wood-fired pizza favorite Mozzeria.

Wine Lands, the festival’s wine-focused tent, plans to feature 10 new wineries, including natural wine producers Es Okay and Eco Terreno. Beer fans can also quench their thirst with a choice of several returning Northern California favorites — including Almanac Beer Co., Discretion Brewing and East Brother Beer Co. — plus breweries new to the festival this year such as Santa Cruz’s popular Humble Sea Brewing Co. and Sonoma’s Golden State Cider.

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Once the music stops in Golden Gate Park this year, fans at the annual  Outside Lands Festival  can keep the party going with several after-hours shows at intimate venues throughout the city.

Among the artists scheduled to play the 2022 Night Shows are singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, who will play an acoustic set, indie rocker Mac DeMarco and the Russian feminist punk outfit Pussy Riot.

The scheduled after-hours performances also include sets by Washed Out, Ashe, Tokimonsta, Best Coast, Franc Moody, Anna, Anna Lunoe b2b J. Worra, Cassian, Michelle and L’Rain. These artists are set to play at small venues across San Francisco, including the Independent, Rickshaw Stop, Bimbo’s 365 Club and more. See the full list of shows and venues using the festival app or website.

Fans who bought tickets to the festival have first dibs on passes to the night shows. For a complete schedule and ticket information, visit  sfoutsidelands.com/night-shows.

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Outside Lands can feel a little overwhelming, so technology can help.

Download the official Outside Lands mobile app for the latest festival updates, a detailed map of the grounds, and a friend-finder function.

Need to know whether you can bring your cat to the festival? The latest clear bag policy? Where to find an ATM? How late the box office is open? Take your questions over to the Outside Lands website, which features a comprehensive  information page, as well as other vital details.

Festival promoters said attendees can expect the same robust security measures they saw at Outside Lands in the past, including metal detectors at the gates, double-perimeter fencing and armed police officers patrolling the grounds.

There will be print schedules available at the information booth on the Polo Field on the days of the festival. But your best bet is to check the full lineup and schedule on the Outside Lands mobile app and the festival website, which will be updated in real time throughout all three days.

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SZA Phoebe Bridgers Lil Uzi Vert Disclosure Oliver Tree The Marías Dayglow Purple Disco Machine Hiatus Kaiyote Washed Out Ashe Role Model Anna Best Coast Duckwrth Rostam Ameme Faye Webster Sampa the Great Lido Pimienta Del Water Gap Ellen Allien Inner Wave DJ Seinfeld The Beths Major League DJz Odie Cory Henry India Jordan PawPaw Rod The Blssm Spellling

Green Day Jack Harlow Kali Uchis Polo & Pan Rina Sawayama Mac DeMarco Local Natives Claude VonStroke Larry June Parcels Tokimonsta Sam Fender Franc Moody Empress Of Zoe Wees Anna Lunoe KennyHoopla Maxo Kream Robert Glasper Cassian Benny Sings J. Worra Thuy Michelle Wilderado Joplyn The Emo Night Tour L’Rain Perel

Post Malone Weezer Illenium Mitski Dominic Fike Pusha T Mt. Joy Kim Petras 100 Gecs Surf Mesa Dixon Wet Leg Baby Tate The Backseat Lovers Amber Mark Pussy Riot Avalon Emerson Griff Briston Maroney Barry Can’t Swim Tyla Yaweh Glaive Petey DJ Minx Jelani Aryeh Cassandra Jenkins Unusual Demont Forester Tre’ Amani Absolute MPHD b2b Tiffany Tyson

Outside Lands 2022: Friday-Sunday, Aug. 5-7. $175-$ 4,699. Golden Gate Park, S.F.  www.sfoutsidelands.com

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