The Barbary Coast Trail is a designated path that connects 20 historic sites and local history museums in San Francisco, California. Approximately 180 bronze medallions and arrows embedded in the sidewalk mark the 3.8-mile (6.1 km) trail. The historic sites of the Barbary Coast Trail relate primarily to the period from the California Gold Rush [...]
Boudin Bakery
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Boudin Bakery is a bakery based in San Francisco, California, known for its sourdough bread (called the “Original San Francisco Sourdough French Bread”. It was established in 1849 by Isidore Boudin, son of a family of master bakers from Burgundy, France, by blending the sourdough prevalent among miners in the Gold Rush with French techniques. [...]
Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a monument to the firefighters of San Francisco. Paid for by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy socialite who loved to chase fires in the early days of the city’s history, the tower took five years to construct. Before December 1866, there was no real fire department, and fires in the city, which [...]
Ferries of San Francisco Bay
The largest ferry system on San Francisco Bay today is operated by Blue & Gold Fleet. Others include Red & White Fleet, Harbor Bay Ferry and Golden Gate Transit. Modern high speed ferryboats of this commuter system run between the Ferry Building in San Francisco and landings in Sausalito, Tiburon and Larkspur in Marin County. [...]
Ghirardelli Square
Ghirardelli Square is a landmark with shops and restaurants in the Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco, California, USA. A portion of the area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Pioneer Woolen Mills and D. Ghirardelli Company. Ghirardelli Square once featured over 40 specialty shops and restaurants. Some of the original [...]
Ride The Ducks
Fun San Francisco tours always include an exciting ride on one of our amazing land and water duck vehicles. Ride through the historic streets and neighborhoods of San Francisco. Splash down and cruise McCovey Cove. Drive the duck, if you want. Quack along with the captain and the music aboard this 90-minute city adventure. Your [...]
Ripleys Believe It Or Not at Fishermans Wharf
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is San Francisco’s home to weird class family fun that is located in the world famous Fisherman’s Wharf near Pier 39. With two floors and over 10,000 square feet filled with the strange, the unusual, and the unbelievable, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is the weirdest thing on the Wharf! [...]
Wax Museum at Fishermans Wharf
The museum displays a few figures of current interest in the lobby, which is open to the street. The bodies of the wax statues are made of wood, fiberglass, papier-mâché and beeswax. The process to make each figure and prepare it for display takes approximately two or three months. Many of the sculptures were created [...]
F Market & Wharves Trolleys
The F Market & Wharves Trolley line is one of several light rail lines in San Francisco, California. Unlike the other lines, the F line is operated as a heritage streetcar service, using exclusively historic equipment both from San Francisco’s retired fleet as well as from cities around the world. While the F line is [...]
Sailing The Bay
San Francisco Bay is a mecca for sailors (boats, as well as windsurfing and kitesurfing), due to consistent strong westerly/northwesterly thermally-generated winds (Beaufort force 6 (15-25 knots) is common on summer afternoons) and protection from large open ocean swells. Yachting and yacht racing are popular pastimes and the San Francisco Bay Area is home to [...]