Tag: “San Francisco Bay”

90 places found.

  1. Sausalito Ferry

    Getting on the Sausalito Ferry on a clear day is a wonderful experience. The fare is currently $7.10 one way.

  2. San Francisco Art Institute

    Founded in 1871, The San Francisco Art Institute is one of San Francisco's oldest art schools. It occupies a great complex in North Beach.

  3. Bay to breakers

    Started as a race through San Francisco in 1912 "Bay to Breakers" has become to more than a sports event. It has grown to a huge party throughout the whole city that no one should miss, when being in the bay area on the third sunday of may.

  4. San Francisco Skyline

    Sometimes, to fully appreciate the beauty of San Francisco, you need to get out of San Francisco and check out its magnificent skyline.

  5. Presidio Yacht Club

    Cross the Golden Gate from San Francisco into Sausalito. The Presidio Yacht Club is located in Horseshoe Cove near the Bay Area Discovery Museum (for children).

  6. The Ferry Building

    Originally built in 1898, this San Francisco landmark at the foot of Market Street was one of the busiest transit terminals in the world prior to the construction of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges during the 1930s. Ferry traffic declined dramatically thereafter, and from the 1950s until the mid-1990s, the Ferry Building was hidden behind an ugly elevated freeway.

  7. Golden Gate Bridge

    The Golden Gate Bridge is a world-famous suspension bridge completed in 1937. It is part of US 101, and it connects the City of San Francisco to Marin County and the rest of the northern California coast.

    The natural air conditioning system that San Francisco's fog provides engulfs the Golden Gate bridge most afternoons, providing very dramatic temperature changes, and leaving the tourists running to the shops to buy more clothes.

  8. Lombard Street

    One of San Francisco's most recognizable streets, it's almost cliché to come here during a visit to the city, but the novelty of such an unusual street is inarguably fun. Most locals never come here, but visitors line up for a block or two west of Hyde Street to drive down the eight or so bends at five miles per hour, while others taking photographs line the sidewalk staircases on either side.

  9. Palace of Fine Arts

    Originally built in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the Palace itself is antique architecture - the massive columns dwarf human scale. It's very Arcadian or Picturesque - there's a swan-inhabited man-made lake.

    This is what it is now, not what it was then...

    The nearby Exploratorium is a science-based art gallery with exhibits designed by some amazing artists that work with natural phenomena like Ned Kahn and Doug Hollis - great on a rainy weekday if you can swing it....

  10. Castro District