Any ideas about things to do and places to go when a friend visits between March 10 - 18?
My best friend who I have not seen in two years wants to meet up in San Francisco between March 10 - 18. I was hoping to get some fun ideas about places to go and things to do. Any thoughts would be fantastic!
EDIT: I am getting feedback that I am not being specific enough so I will expand on the types of things we like to do. These are just thoughts!
Things we like to do:
- Eating (both big foodies)
- Hiking/Sight seeing
- Goofy adventures
- Fishing
Posted Feb 5, 2018, 8:20 PM UTC · edited
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If you haven't already booked your trip ahead of time for an Alcatraz tour, you can visit Fisherman's Wharf and take a ferry ride with one of the Historic Red/White or Blue/Gold Fleets, both of whom offer comprehensive audio tours to accompany you on your trip around the bay and under the Golden Gate Bridge. Consider an evening voyage to take advantage of the Bay Lights. Satisfy your sweet tooth and find truly unique local gifts with a trip to a San Francisco classic, Ghirardelli Square. While a lot of people downplay Pier 39 as just an outdoor mall, the Sea Lions alone make this spot well worth the trip. A bit further down the Embarcadero is one of the busiest public squares in the city, San Francisco's Ferry Building marketplace and clock tower, accessible by heritage streetcar. Learn more about San Francisco's collection of historic streetcars from around the world at the Railway Museum. Brought to you by those keeping our museums in motion on track, the Market Street Railway.
The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park is fantastic, as is the rest of the park, though at a little over 1,000 acres it can be a bit much to handle in one day. While you're on that side of the city, Land's End and the Sutro Baths near Ocean Beach are a lot of fun to visit and take pictures
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The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps features a fabulous mosaic climbing up to the summit of Grandview Park which offers one of the most astounding panoramas of the city, the fortuitously iconic Sutro Tower and the monumental urban planning that defines the western side of San Francisco.
Turn on, tune in, and drop out in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where the Summer of Love took place in 1967. This psychedelic district was the cradle of sixties counterculture and helped to fuel the Free Love and modern day social progressive movements. The Haight offers a far-out shopping strip along with some of the most extraordinary victorian architecture in the city. Mellow Out and unwind on Hippie Hill to find momentary refuge from all the City's hustle and bustle. Pop into Amoeba Music and be sure to wear flowers in your hair!
Straddling the side of the Powell-Hyde Cable Car through the retail and boutique metropolis that surrounds Union Square is by far the most enjoyable way to reach the top of the famously crooked Lombard Street and it is gorgeous and breathtaking, every single time. The most striking part of that view being Coit Tower which might be my favorite landmark in the city. It's a blast and very inexpensive to go to the top of the tower as well. The admission free Cable Car Museum is tremendously informative and also functions as the power house and barn for the cars. The interactive exhibits of out of service cars can make anyone appreciate the contributions cable cars have made to modern day transit infrastructure. The cable car also goes through Chinatown, which is the largest outside of Asia. Visit the Chinese Historical Society of America and tour the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory where fortune cookies are hand made by the thousands daily for over fifty years.
I feel comfortable saying that AT&T Park home of the San Francisco Giants offers the most beautiful baseball stadium vista in the known universe.
Standing taller than the nation's capitol, City Hall is stunning inside and out. From the elegant interior to its neoclassical facade, it is more grandiose and structurally detailed than most statehouses. (And even governs over more people, in some cases)
On a sunny day, there's no better lunch spot than a picnic in Alamo Square. Sitting Across from the Painted Ladies of Postcard Row, it's one of the best places to experience San Francisco's notoriously dichotomous skyline.
Visit the Lyon Street Steps and walk to the Palace of Fine Arts
Stroll down Castro Street! Have a drink and relax at the world's first gay bar with clear windows; Twin Peaks. Then stop by next door at the Hot Cookie for some festive sweets. Whether you'd prefer a sing-along or a silent film, the Castro Theatre is an unforgettably exquisite Jazz Age movie house. Famous for it's grand pipe organ and iconic neon marquee, it's regarded as one of the greatest examples in the country of both baroque architecture and Silent Era movie palaces and hosts several film festivals each year. See America's only LGBT History Museum or the Human Rights Campaign Store in the building where Harvey Milk lived and ran his business. Pink Triangle Park is a powerful memorial to the gay men killed in the Holocaust and is a subtle reminder of the violence that gender and sexual minorities face everyday all over the world. If you're into street art, the Hope for a World Cure mural is also both poignant and inspiring.
Of course, no trip to The City is complete without a Mission burrito.
Whether you're looking for rad Surfing, lavish Wine Tasting, serene Redwood Forests, innovative Technology, romantic Gondolas, express connections to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe or the unequally talented Golden State Warriors, and San Francisco 49ers, the San Francisco Bay Area has everything you could want out of your California adventure.
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Hope you enjoy your time in the City by the Bay!
WOW! This is fantastic. Thank you so much for following up with this. I really appreciate it! I will look at each of these!