Fairfax, CA (Town)

Fairfax is a small incorporated town in Marin County, California, with a strong countercultural and outdoorsy streak. Coast Miwok people lived along the area's creeks and spring-fed places long before the modern town formed. Fairfax's local lore includes a 1960s softball game between Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead at Central Field, and its bike culture is tied to Joe Breeze and major West Coast bicycle collections. It is compact, wooded, idiosyncratic, and unmistakably Marin.