A guide to touring...

San Francisco

Steepest streets:

1. Filbert & Hyde
2. California & Mason
3. Webster & Broadway
4. Union & Jones
5. Sanchez & 21th (steepest street)

Best Views

1. Mt Tamalpais (45 minutes north of the city)
2. Treasure Island (first exit on the Bay Bridge)
3. Twin Peaks (drive up Market St for about 3 kms)
4. Hawk Hill (10 minutes north, first exit after the Golden Gate Bridge, turn left under freeway, best time is at 4pm)
5. Lake Chabot (northern part of Golf Links Rd)
6. Grizzly Peak Blvd (Berkeley)
7. Nimitz Way
8. Sausalito or Tiburon
9. Florence Steps (above the Broadway tunnel)
10. Divisadero & Valencia
11. Carnelian Room (Bank of America, 555 California)
12. Hyatt Regency (revolving bar at the top)

Best Sunsets

1. Point Reyes lighthouse
2. Mt Tamalpais
3. Hawk Hill
4. Sutro Heights

Potrero Hill

• Bernal Heights (Folsom, past Army St)
• Benches (Vermont St off 101)

Sunset (**)

• Pacifica
• Lake Merced
• St Francis Wood (Monterey & ElVerano, St Francis & Sta Ana, 1400 Monterey)
• Twin Peaks (Portola Dr or Market St)
• Great Hwy
• Golden Gate Park (aquarium, planetarium, museums, arboretum)
• Cliff House (end of Geary Blvd) & Seal rocks
• Sutro Baths
• Sutro Heights (end of Geary Blvd)
• Presidio
• Land's End
• Legion Of Honor
• China Beach (27th & Sea Cliff)
• Baker Beach (Lincoln & Bowley)
• El Camino del Mar
• 28th St Stairs
• Lincoln Blvd
• Ft Point
• Golden Gate Bridge

Marina (**)

• Palace Of Fine Arts (34th)
• Marina Green
• Crissy Field
• Fort Mason
• Lyons Steps
• Fisherman's Wharf
• Aquatic Park, Hyde St Pier, Wave organ
• Jefferson St
• Cannery
• Ghirardelli Sq
• Musee Mecanique (Pier 45, end of Taylor Street)
• Pier 39
• Lombard St

North Beach (**)

• Washington Sq
• City Lights
• Vesuvio
• Broadway Strip
• Cow Hollow (Union St, bet Divisadero & Van Ness)
• Polk St (north of California)

Pacific Heights (**)

• Webster & Broadway (steep incline)
• Lyons steps (& Pacific)
• Divisadero & Vallejo
• 3200 block of Pacific (& Presidio)
• Immanuel Temple

Richmond

• Clement St (between 1st and 6th)
• Geary Blvd

Haight (**)

• Haight St
• Alamo Sq (Postcard Row, Steiner & Hayes)

Castro (**)

• Liberty Stairs
• Italianate homes (109 & 159 Liberty St)
• Sanchez & 21th (steepest street)
• Vulcan Stairways: 20th & Connecticut (Saturn Stairways...)

Noe Valley

• 24th St

Mission

• Mission Dolores
• Murals (24th bet Harrison & York)
• El camino real
• Levi Strauss (240 Valencia)
• Valencia & 16th

Civic Center

Tenderloin district

Downtown

• Japantown
• St Mary's Cathedral (Geary and Gough)

Victorian homes (**)

• Hermitage House 2240 Sacramento&Laguna)
• Haans-Lilienthal House (2007 Franklin & Jackson)
• House at Franklin & California
• Octagon House (2645 Gough & Union)
• Whittier (2090 JAckson & Laguna)
• Union & Webster

Russian Hills

• Cable car
• 1000 Vallejo
• Florence Steps (Broadway & Jones, above Broadway tunnel)
• Polk homes
• Macondray: Filbert&Polk-Filbert-Hyde stairways-Leavenworth-Green- Taylor steps-Vallejo steps-Mason steps-Broadway-Taylor- Florence steps- Vallejo-Taylor-Macondray-Jones steps- Green-Leavenworth-Union-Polk

Chinatown (**)

• Grant Ave (bet Bush and Broadway)

Telegraph Hill (**)

• Jackson Sq (Jackson & Montgomery)
• Levi's Plaza (1160 Battery & Union)
• Greenwich & Filbert Steps (Filbert St to Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower)
• Telegraph: Bay & Powell-Chestnut-Grant-Whiting-Julius steps-Chid steps- Telegraph Place-Telegraph Blvd-Greenwich steps-Coit Tower- steps to Montgomery-Francisco-Kearney-Wharf Plaza steps- Grant-Powell
• Coit Tower (Telegraph Hill)

Nob Hill

• California & Mason (steep incline)
• Grace Cathedral
• Union Sq

Financial District (**)

• Transam Pyramid
• Montgomery St (banks)
• Shaklee Terraces
• Bank Of America (555 California)
• Hobart
• Wills Polk's Hallidie Building (1918) (130 Sutter Street Between Montgomery and Kearny)
• Alcoa Building (1964) at 1 Maritime Plaza
• 388 Pine
• 101 California
• Shaklee Terraces
• San Francisco Mall (Spiral escalator)

Embarcadero

• Embarcadero center
• Skydeck
• Hyatt, Eclipse
• Justin Herman Plaza, Vaillancourt Fountain
• Ferry Building

SoMa

• Moscone Center
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• SoMa clubs (Folsom, Harrison)
• China Basin (Harrison & Embarcadero)
• Bay Bridge
• Treasure Island (left-lane exit on Bay Bridge)

see page on the South Coast

Marin County, etc:

• Hawk Hill (first 101 exit)
• Rodeo Beach
• Tennessee Beach
• Sausalito
• Tiburon
• Angel Island
• Alcatraz
• Mt Tamalpais
• Inspiration Point
• Muir Woods
• Bolinas
• Bodega Bay
• Mill Valley: Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center on San Pedro Rd

North Bay, etc:

• San Quentin: penitentiary
• Marine World USA
• Richmond Bridge
• Napa Valley

Berkeley (**):

• UC Campus
• Telegraph Ave sunday market
• Restaurant row (College Ave)
• Grizzly Peak Blvd (panorama)
• Claremont Hotel
• Maybeck's First Church of Christ, 2619 Dwight

Oakland:

• Chick House (1913), 7133 Chabot (Broadway exit of 24, U-turn on Patton, go under the freeway, right on Chabot)
• First Presbyterian on Broadway
• First Baptist on Telegraph
• Telegraph & 19th
• Civic Center
• Court House
• Tribune Tower
• Lake Merritt
• Alameda
• Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak St

East Bay

• Mount Diablo
• Blackhawk Automotive Museum
• Danville, Hartz Avenue

San Jose:

• Winchester Mystery House
• Mt Hamilton/Lick observatory
• Flea Market (101 & Hedding)
• Great America
• Silicon Valley

Palo Alto

• Stanford University
• Stanford Shopping Center
• University Ave

Redwood City/San Carlos

• Filoli Mansion
• Water Temple
• Sweeney Ridge (Sneath Ln off 35)
• Montara Mountain (San Pedro Park, end of Linda Mar in Pacifica)
• Emerald Hills (houses: Hillcrest @ Sunset, Occidental & Jefferson)

Atherton/Woodsise

• Mountain Home Rd (mansions)
• Stockbridge Ave, Atherton Ave, Isabella & Elena, Brittany Meadows (mansions)

San Mateo

• Coyote Point trail
• San Mateo Bridge
• Tom Sawyers trail (reservoir)
• Highway 35 ("Skyline") from 92 to 9

Colma

• Necropolis (Cypress Lawn at 1370 El Camino Real south of Serramonte Blvd)

Mountain View

• Computer History Museum

Saratoga

• Villa Moltalvo