Golden Gate Triathlon
A world class triathlon has come to San Francisco and it's most cherished landmark is its centerpiece. The Golden Gate Triathlon features a beautiful swim along the coast of Crissy Field, an epic looped course through-out the... active.com
Land’s End Octagon House
Were in luck. After more than a decade of informal and formal strategy meetings, environmental reports, and fund-raising, Phase I rehabilitative work has begun at Lands End. We will have improved trails, invasive controls, an... trails.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
Mission Bar
As the sun goes down on the Mission District the neighborhood?s vibrant murals fade into the shadows and irresistible artificial light splashes out onto sidewalks from the barrooms. This is one of the city?s very best nightli... trails.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
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
Forest Hill Stairway Walks, San Francisco, California
It?s not the longest stairway in the City, or the steepest; not the most charming, or the most personal. Filbert and Vallejo Stairways, Oakhurst Stairway, Vulcan and Harry Stairways, and Pemberton Stairway, respectively, have... trails.com
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California
On most days Telegraph Hill feels like San Francisco?s Shangri-La, with its wooden stairways zigzagging up hills too steep for paved streets. Walkers are naturally drawn to the steps, which weave through dense gardens and pas... trails.com
Marina Green
A long flat strip along the bay with a view of Alcatraz teems with joggers, rollerbladers, and bikers. an Franciscos panoramic waterfront park located just 2 miles east of the Golden Gate Bridge. sfstation.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
Haight Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tour
Discover the birthplace of 60's counter culture, free rock concerts, communes and cults. Stroll among famous San Francisco Victorians and learn why it all happened here. Allow plenty of time for lunch and shopping a... localattractions.com
Russian Hill, San Francisco, California
Russian Hill is more hilly than it is Russian?in fact, not one fur hat did we see while walking the streets of this part of town while researching this book. (The name supposedly comes from shadowy rumors of Russian sailors w... trails.com
San Francisco Duck Tour
The San Francisco Embarcadero follows the path of the old State Belt Railroad, which transferred cargo from ships to main line railroads and cars onto ferries for trips across the bay. The tracks were extended through a tu... traillink.com
Yerba Buena Cove, Telegraph Hill, & Chinatown Stairway...
The early Spanish explorers of the 18th century designated three important foci in the city: religious?Mission Dolores; military?The Presidio; and commercial?Yerba Buena Cove. In this walk we?ll explore the commercial area. Y... trails.com
North Beach, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
North Beach no longer swarms with the goatee-and-beret crowd, and the Italian language is less commonly heard in the neighborhood than it once was. And yet the neighborhood continues to benefit from its heritage as an enclave... trails.com
San Francisco Town Music Studio
Why pay $7 for a cable car, another $25 for a city bus tour, when you can visit three of the city's peaks in a little under 50 minutes for FREE! Race the cable car up California Street Run up Lombard Street backwards (agai... sfstation.com
Civic Center, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
San Francisco?s Civic Center is one of the most elegant and cohesively planned complexes in the U.S. Huge monumental Beaux Arts structures went up after the 1906 quake, making the area impressive but cold on the surface. Some... trails.com