Lands End Trail
Riding high on the cliffs at North America's western edge, this San Francisco area trail offers unbeatable views of Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco Bay. Add to that a chance to see old shipwrecks,... traillink.com
Mill Valley-sausalito Multi-purpose Path
Mill Valley-Sausalito Multi-purpose Path is a convenient connection between neighborhoods, schools, shopping, restaurants and a skate park. There is also an adjacent dog park, Mill Valley Dog Park. Between the skate and do... traillink.com
Financial District, San Francisco, California
This is where the big wheels turn in San Francisco. Looking much like a section of Manhattan or the Loop in Chicago, the Financial District is a grid of canyons formed by the high-rise pillars of capitalism. Buildings bold, s... trails.com
Golden Gate Heights Stairway Walks, San Francisco, California
The vast tract of land known as the Sunset District sprawls south from Golden Gate Park to Sloat Blvd. and from Stanyan to the Pacific Ocean. At one time it was all sand dunes, and a Sunday?s outing to the beach, with lunch o... trails.com
Tiburon Historical Trail
If you're looking for a gentle rail-trail in Marin County that offers stunning views of both San Francisco Bay and Mt. Tamalpais, the Tiburon Historical Trail is for you. Known alternately as the Tiburon Bike Path and Tibu... traillink.com
San Francisco Bay Trail (Airport To Hunters Point)
The Airport to Hunters Point section of the San Francisco Bay Trail (SFBT) stretches from San Francisco International Airport in the south to India Basin in the north. The trail is in a few disconnected segments and there ... traillink.com
Chinatown, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
San Francisco has a Chinatown to rival any city?s Chinatown, in part due to its outrageous architecture, but mostly because it has all the hustle and bustle you?d expect to find on the streets of Hong Kong. Chinatown was deli... trails.com
Embarcadero (North), San Francisco, California
Much of the history of early San Francisco centered on the waterfront around Yerba Buena Cove, which curved into what is now the Financial District as far inland as Battery St. Most of the ground we?ll tread on this tour actu... trails.com
Jackson Square, San Francisco, California
There is little disputing that San Francisco got off to a spectacular start. By all accounts, the city was thrown up with the purposeful chaos of a carnival pulling into town in the dark of night, and for decades the atmosphe... trails.com
Telegraph Hill & North Beach Stairway Walks, San...
You begin the walk in a historic area of North Beach?at the intersection of Mason and Bay. During the Gold Rush days, North Beach extended only to Francisco St., near the water line. Henry ?Honest Harry? Meiggs, a New York St... trails.com
Japantown And Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California
Japantown is an odd and interesting neighborhood. Japanese immigrants began settling here after the ?06 quake, and were unjustly moved from their homes and placed in internment camps during World War II. The African Americans... trails.com
Marina Green, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Sailboats setting off for an afternoon jaunt around the bay, kites darting to and fro, joggers keeping a brisk pace, a sea breeze caressing your face: This bayside ramble makes the most of San Francisco?s fabulous peninsula l... trails.com
Richmond District, San Francisco, California
Clement St. in the Inner Richmond District will always be ?New Chinatown,? even though Chinese immigrants have operated businesses here since the 1970s. The area naturally invites contrast to the old Chinatown, and indeed the... trails.com
Tenderloin, San Francisco, California
The Tenderloin, squeezed between Union Square and Civic Center, has long been the part of town where most of the city?s low life ends up. It is block after block of Skid Rows lined mostly with residential hotels and rescue mi... trails.com
Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California
San Francisco?s elite moved up to Pacific Heights? lofty, rarified environs back in the 1870s and have never left. Well, the original people have died, but their latter-day ilk remain. It seems Nob Hill wasn?t big enough for ... trails.com
Haight-ashbury, San Francisco, California
Along with the Gold Rush, earthquakes, and the Gay ?70s, the Summer of Love is one of those things for which San Francisco is commonly known to the outside world. The intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets is the city?s m... trails.com
Lower Market Street, San Francisco, California
Market St. slices through San Francisco?s grid at a brash, oblique angle, cutting a prominent seam through the city?s central neighborhoods. Indeed, it was laid out to be a grand boulevard. It doesn?t always live up to the bi... trails.com
Marina And Cow Hollow, San Francisco, California
The Marina might be summed up as the new-money counterpart to old-money Pacific Heights. Both are upper-class enclaves, but while Pacific Heights rises above the city with a Victorian regalness, the Marina thrusts its chest o... trails.com