Neighborhood Guides
Neighborhood Guides picks in San Francisco.
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SF Ferry Schedule: Ferry Building to Fort Mason Is the Waterfront Walk That Eats an Afternoon
A Bay-side route for people who like their city walks with boats, brick, and one slow detour.
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The Embarcadero to Ocean Beach: San Francisco's Longest Straight Line
Seven miles of JFK Drive trace San Francisco's entire geological story—from tidal marsh to sand dune to Pacific fog. You'll walk through four ecosystems before lunch.
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An Aubrey Plaza Mission Walking Loop in San Francisco
Aubrey Plaza's quiet-cool deadpan turned the Mission into her on-screen home in 2024. A 4-mile loop through Valencia, 24th Street and Dolores Park that retraces the bookstores, taquerias and back-alley murals the camera lingered on — and works just as well without her.
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The Lands End Trail at the Northwest Tip of San Francisco — A 3.4-Mile Coastal Loop, a 1896 Bathhouse Ruin, and a Stone Labyrinth Over the Pacific
San Francisco runs out of land at Lands End. The grid of the Richmond District peels back into a corner of cliffs, cypress, and Monterey pine, and the city falls fifty meters into the Pacific. The Lands End Coastal Trail traces the seam — 3.4 miles of dirt and timber path from the Sutro Baths ruins on the west end to Eagle's Point on the east, with the Golden Gate Bridge visible for most of it. It is the best free hike in San Francisco proper. Take the long way home through it.
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The Java Beach-to-Lands End Walk, Along the Coast of What Used to Be a Pleasure Railway
The walk from Java Beach Café to Lands End follows, almost exactly, the path of a Victorian-era pleasure railway that stopped running a hundred years ago. Five kilometres, four stages, three hours. Here is how to read the coast that leads to the Golden Gate.
