San Francisco, California Travel Information

A Bay in the Life: On San Francisco Bay From vantage points around this hilly peninsula, San Francisco Bay shimmers in grand prominence. As spectacular as the city is, sooner or later you’ll be tempted to leave its shores. You don’t have to... San Francisco, CA

A Mandarin's Pleasures: Chinatown and Beyond A teeming, colorful city within a city, Chinatown serves up a feast for the senses. Stone beasts roar silently at the Chinatown gateway at Grant Avenue and Bush Street. Pagoda-shaped roofs, painted ba... San Francisco, CA

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Telegraph Hill If ever a neighborhood was designed for love, this is it. At the base of Telegraph Hill, a village inn with cushioned bay windows borders a rolling green. On the Club Fugazi stage, Snow White searches... San Francisco, CA

Alcatraz Island Alcatraz Island, just a 10-minute ferry ride from San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, is best known for its days as a federal prison (1934 to 1963), during which time it incarcerated some of the countr... North Beach, CA

An Invitation to Your Muse: Russian Hill The Lark, a bohemian literary production edited by poet George Sterling, once printed a map showing the neighborhood of Little Bohemia on Russian Hill beyond Nob Hill, the so-called Hill of Plenty. Wi... San Francisco, CA

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Civic Center, San Francisco (Distance: 0.3 mi) 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 ...

San Francisco, CA - Walking - length:1 mi

Tenderloin (Distance: 0.3 mi) 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 residen...

San Francisco, CA - Walking - length:1 mi

Mission Bars (Distance: 0.5 mi) 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...

San Francisco, CA - Walking - length:2.25 mi

San Francisco Ramble (Distance: 0.6 mi) Only a few years ago San Francisco made national headlines for its Critical Mass event, a grass-roots ride that involved thousands of cyclists taking to city streets during Friday rush hour. The enorm...

San Francisco, CA - Road Biking - length:20.3 mi

Upper Market and the Castro (Distance: 0.8 mi) The Castro is probably the best known gay neighborhood in the U.S. Perhaps not coincidentally, it’s also a treasure trove of lovingly maintained architectural gems, with unbroken strings of beautiful ...

San Francisco, CA - Walking - length:1.5 mi

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Presidio Presidio Golf Course Public, 18 holes 6477 yards, par 72 2.8 miles from center of San Francisco, California

Gleneagles Int'l Gleneagles International Golf Course Municipal, 9 holes 3293 yards, par 36 4.0 miles from center of San Francisco, California

Lincoln Park Lincoln Park Golf Course Public, 18 holes 5146 yards, par 69 4.1 miles from center of San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Golden Gate Golf Course Municipal, 9 holes 1357 yards, par 27 4.9 miles from center of San Francisco, California

San Francisco San Francisco Golf Club Private Equity, 18 holes 6716 yards, par 71 5.3 miles from center of San Francisco, California

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