Places to Go, Things to See in San Francisco

San Francisco Zoo

> 10-5

http://www.sfzoo.org/

Adults $11, 12-17 $8, 3-11 $5, 1^{st Wed free}

Ocean Beach

http://www.nps.gov/goga/clho/ocbe/index.htm

Free

Cliff House

> 9-9 gift shop

http://www.nps.gov/goga/clho/index.htm

http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/

Free walking around, Cost for restaurants, Camera Obscura

Sutro Baths

> daylight

http://www.nps.gov/goga/clho/suba/

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/baths.html

http://americahurrah.com/SanFrancisco/Memories/sfmemSutroBaths.html

Free

Sutro Heights Park

> daylight

http://www.nps.gov/goga/clho/suhe/index.htm

Free

Land's End Coastal Trail

> daylight

Free

(from Sutro baths to Seacliff- Beautiful Ocean views)

Labyrinth overlooking Mile Rock Beach & Golden gate Bridge

SeaCliff

> daylight

Houses of the Wealthy dangling off of cliffs

Free

Legion of Honor

> T-S 9:30-5

http://www.legionofhonor.org/legion/visiting/index.asp

Adults $10, 13-17 $6, under 12 free, 1st Tues free

Holocaust memorial: Free

Presidio

> 9-5

http://www.nps.gov/prsf/home.htm

http://www.presidio.gov/

Visitor Center> Building 102, Montgomery Street.

Presidio Visitor Center> Presidio Officers' Club 50 Moraga Avenue

Crissy Field Center> Building 603, corner of Mason & Halleck Sts

Palace of Fine Arts

http://www.nps.gov/prsf/places/palace.htm

Free

Exploratorium

> T-S 10-5

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

adults &13, 13-17 $10, 4-12 $8, 1st Wed free

Golden Gate Bridge

> gift shop 9-5

Walking Across 5am-9pm

http://goldengatebridge.org/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldengate/

http://www.sfmuseum.org/assoc/bridge00.html

Free to walk, $5 to drive

Fort Point

> FSS 10-5

http://www.nps.gov/fopo/

Free

On the Bay

Alcatraz

> 9:30- 1:45 or 4-7

http://www.nps.gov/alca/

Island Free, Boat Trip+ audio tour adult $16.50, 5-11 $10.75

Angel Island

> 8 to sunset

http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/22-8/22-08-9.pdf

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwiibayarea/ang.htm

http://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/angel_island.htm

adults $14.50, 6-12 $8.50

Bay Cruise

> 10-4

http://www.redandwhite.com/Final%20Site/cruises.asp

adults $18, 12-17 $14, 5-11 $10

http://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/

adults $18, 12-18 $14, 5-11 $10

Hornblowers> times vary

http://www.hornblower.com/port.asp?port=sf

$59-$99

Fisherman's Wharf

Maritime Museum> 10-5

http://www.nps.gov/safr/

Donation,

Hyde Street Pier Historic Ships: C.A. Thayer, Eppleton Hall, Eureka, Alma, Hercules & Balclutha> 9-5

http://www.nps.gov/safr/

Pier is free, boarding pass for historic vessels: $5 adults, supervised under 16 free

Ghirardelli>M-T 10-6 FSS 10-9

http://www.ghirardellisq.com/ghirardellisq/

Free to walk around, cost in shops & restaurants

The Cannery> 10-6

http://sanfrancisco.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.thecannery.com/event/xmas.html

Free to walk around, cost in shops & restaurants

Musee Mecanique> 10-8

http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/musee/mechanique.html

http://www.museemechanique.org/

Free, nominal charge to play games

Pier 45

WWII Liberty Ship USS Jeremiah O'Brien

> 9am to 4 pm

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/jobrien.htm

(http://usspolkcounty.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader$961 )

Adult $7, 6-14 $3, under 6 free

WWII Submarine USS Pampanito> M-Th 9-9, FSS 9-8

http://www.maritime.org/pamphome.htm

$9/ 13 &up, $4/ 6-12, Free/ 5& under,

Pier 39> 10-7

http://www.pier39.com/

Free to walk around, cost in shops & restaurants 

Wax Museum

> 10-9

http://www.waxmuseum.com/

adult $13, 12-17 $10, 6-11 $7

Ripley's Believe It or Not> 10-10

http://ripleysf.com/index2.html

13 & up $13, 5-12 $8

Rainforest Café

http://www.rainforestcafe.com/

415-440-5610

Fog City Diner> 11-10

http://www.fogcitydiner.com/

Entrees $7- $27

Coit Tower

> 10-5

http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Coit_Tower.html

Murals Free, Elevator to top $3

Lombard Street

aka Crookest Street

Free

40% slope

National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi

> 11-4, 12:15 Mass

http://www.shrinesf.org/

610 Vallejo Street  [cross street: Columbus Avenue]

Free

Saint Peter & Paul's

http://www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us/church/church_interior.htm

China Town

> varies

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/

MeeMee Bakery: 1328 Stockton St

Free to walk the streets, cost for shops & restaurants

Old St. Mary's

> daylight

http://www.oldsaintmarys.org/index.htm

http://www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/cal0810.asp

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/attractions/oldstmary.html

Free

Cable Car Barn

> 10-5

http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/

1201 Mason Street @ Washington

Free

Cable Car Rides

$5 /ride, $10 for 1 day pass

Hyatt Regency

http://sanfranciscoregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp

Free

Justin Herman Plaza Fountain

http://www.murple.net/gallery/v/where/sanfran/sanfran-2005/img_0752.jpg.html

Free

Union Square

> various

http://www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/unionsq.shtml

Free to walk the streets, cost for shops & restaurants

Old Mint

> closed

88 Fifth Street @ Mission

http://www.sfhistory.org/index.php?pageid=7  

New Mint

>not open to the public

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/mint_facilities/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=SF_facilities

St. Mary's Cathedral

> M-F 6:30-4:30, S 6:30 am-7pm, Sun 7:30-4:30

March-October: Tours M-Sat 9-12, Sun after 11am Mass

1111 Gough St, (415) 567-4040

Donation

St. Ignatius

> 8-4

http://www.stignatiussf.org/

Free

Nob Hill

http://www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/nobhill.shtml

Grace Cathedral Episcopal Church

> 8-6

http://www.gracecathedral.org/

Mark Hopkins Hotel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hopkins

Fairmont Hotel

http://www.fairmont.com/sanfrancisco/AboutUs/HotelHistory.htm

Flood Mansion

http://homepage.mac.com/ebandpck/cityrocks/mansion.html

UCSF

http://www.ucsf.edu/

Golden Gate Park

> daylight

http://www.sftravel.com/ggpark.html

Free, various attractions have charges as below

Conservatory> T-S 9-5

Adults $5, 12-17 $3, 5-11 $1.50, 1st Tues Free

de Young Museum> T-S 9:30-5

http://www.legionofhonor.org/deyoung/visiting/index.asp

Adults $10, 13-17 $6, under 12 free, 1st Tues free

California Academy of Sciences> 10-5

http://www.calacademy.org

875 Howard Street

Adults $7, 12-17 $4, 4-11 $2, 1st Wed Free

Japenese Tea Garden

> 8-5

$3.50, Tea extra 

Spreckels Temple of Music 

Free concerts on Sundays at 1pm

Strybing Arboretum

> 9-5

Free

Children's Playground with 1912 Carousel

> 10-4

http://www.nca-usa.org/psp/GoldenGate/

http://www.frp.org/carousel.asp

adults $1.50, 6-15 $0.50,

Stow Lake> daylight

Free to walk around lake, climb island and waterfall

10-4: Cost for Boat Rentals and Bike Rentals 

Polo Field

> daylight Free

Bison

> daylight Free

Dutch Windmill (1902) and tulip garden Free

http://www.goldengateparkwindmills.org/

http://www.goldengateparkwindmills.org/history/index.html

Beach Chalet> 9-midnight

http://beachchalet.com/events.php

Free- 1st floor WPA Murals

Cost- 2nd floor Restaurant & Brewery (Entrees $15-$20)

+ Lots of other fun things

Mission Dolores

> 8-12 and 1-4

http://www.sfmission.com/sfbirthplace/

16th & Dolores

Adult $3, child $2, audio tour $5

weekday mass 7:30am

Levi Strauss Building

> closed

250 Valencia St (at Clinton twn 13/14)

Wells Fargo History Room

> M-F 9-5

http://www.wellsfargohistory.com/

420 Montgomery Street

Free

Anchor Steam Brewery

> 1-3

http://www.anchorbrewing.com/

Free tour & tasting, reservations required 415-863-8350

Twin Peaks

http://www.sftravel.com/twinpeakssanfrancisco.html

Free

Moscone Center

Zeum

> W-S 11-5

http://www.zeum.org/

221 Fourth Street @ Howard Street

Adults $8, 3-18 $6

Carousel (Playland) $3/ 2 rides

Yerba Buena Center

http://www.ybca.org/inside/gardens.html

(on top of Moscone Center)

Haight & Ashbury streets

http://www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/haight.shtml

Grateful Dead-1890 Cranston-Keenan building> 710 Ashbury St

Free to walk around, cost in shops & restaurants

General History

http://sanfrancisco.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.sfmuseum.org/

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/landscape.html

http://www.noehill.com/sf/default.asp

Asian Art Museum

Cartoon Art Museum

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum & Learning Center

Haas-Lilienthal House

Pacific Heritage Building

Randall Museum

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Gaint's Stadium Park Tours

The Society of California Pioneers

Flood Building (Woolworth Building 1904)

Dashill Hammett PI

Maltese Falcon

Thin Man

Flood & O'Brian hired Mackay & Fair to run the silver mine in the Comstock

54" wide, 400 foot deep silver vein

½ Million / month

Union Square 1903 Roosevelt

Admiral Dewy 1898 (Trident)

William McKinley 1901 (Palm Wreath)

Robert Aikin sculpture, Alma Debreadill model

90 foot tall Corinthian column

http://missions.bgmm.com/dolores.htm

http://www.missiondolores.org/#

http://missiondolores.citysearch.com/

http://www.coittower.org/history/historyoftower/historyoftower.html

http://www.coittower.org/

http://www.nps.gov/prsf/

http://www.cliffhouse.com/

http://www.nps.gov/goga/clho/ocbe/safety.htm