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Port Visitor Brochure SF Port Quark 3-2010 final_Layout 1 6/28/10 5:21 PM Page 1 Fisherman’s Wharf PortWalk SF Museum 1 Alcatraz Look for historic signs placed & Historical Barbary Coast Walking Trail along the water’s edge of Society SS Jeremiah 25 PIER A 3.8 mile (6 km) self-guided 15 Muni Bus Routes ATTRACTIONS Fisherman’s Wharf telling the O’Brien 39 Ferries to walking tour that passes by Municipal wharf’s history, giving insight 45 Ferries to Pier Angel Island Oakland over 40 historic landmarks into today’s fishing community, 43 Port of SF M Muni Metro Routes USS Sausalito Alameda from the Old Mint at Fifth and and explaining the need to Tiburon Vallejo Cruise Ship Pampanito Passenger Mission Streets to Aquatic 1 Alcatraz, infamous former frequent Farmer’s Market and For park information please call in fruits of the sea. This project protect the Bay. 35 Park. The route is marked by M Muni Metro (Underground) San 41 Terminal Federal prison, is an island a home to unique restaurants and 415-447-5000 during business boasts an 8,000 square-foot dining Francisco Hyde St 150 bronze plaques or yellow 14 Pier painted insignias. Each end of Muni Cable Car Routes Maritime Historic Fisherman’s Alcatraz mile and a half off Fisherman’s purveyors of specialty foods. hours. “piazza” that opens to the park Park 10 T Ferry the trail is connected by the Ships he E BART Route Wharf mb Powell-Hyde cable car line. Wharf. Alcatraz tours leave from and waterfront promenade. Aquatic arc 10 Fisherman’s Wharf is the cen - 20 Nob Hill is the elegant hilltop 2 Park NPS son F 47 h ad PresidiGo shuttle to the 19 Jeffer Beac ero Alternate Located on The Embarcadero Visitor Port of SF Presidio, weekdays only Pier 33. (Reservations suggested.) ter for seafood restaurants, fish - area of hotels and apartments SF National Center Anchorage Cruise Ship The F 39 F Barbary Coast 2 ing boats, harbor cruise boats, gift with gothic Grace Cathedral, between Harrison and Howard Maritime Cannery Square Boudin th Point 8x Passenger Port History Walk Aquatic Park, three blocks Museum Bakery Nor Terminal Walking Trail Fort 8x K Following the San Street. Closed for each 5 e San Francisco Bay west of Fisherman’s Wharf, has shops and numerous attractions. Huntington Park and the Nob Mason repairs 19 B t 47 a Francisco Bay Trail, Poin Northpoint r 27 North Bay 8x n this walk along the Walking Trail Hyde Street Pier with old-time Hill Masonic Center at its crest. 11 Ghirardelli Center y 11 Fort Mason Center, 12 H hub of the 49 Square 30 M e Embarcadero begins Fisherman’s Wharf r S exhibitions ships and ship- 30 o b at Pier 1 and ends at PortWalk 21 North Beach L world’s largest urban park, the is a neon-studded r t n C ate o e w ande t a Fisherman’s Wharf. V c g P e a n P shaped Maritime Museum. k o Public Parking o v 30 M Golden Gate National Recreation nightlife area clustered around t W e w m o J a n y n o e e s Municipal Pier is a popular spot w y n l r a o Area anchors a number of Broadway and Columbus. Three B l y o e n H r s t for fishing. rd y h Telegraph Lomba museums, theaters and galleries blocks north is Washington 30 d C 33 o e o F rancisc ut lu 8x HHillill T F n e 3 47 est T m AT&T Park, home of the San and is a staging area for special Square, the piazza of the city’s C Ch Coit a b l e u y u 39 g Tower l s e l 39 Lombard St o events. Italian sector. A r Francisco Giants, evokes the b G r v a 39 r Hill e r p a ard n b a 76 Lom u h 30 e n Levi's intimate feeling of classic 12 Ghirardelli Square, 22 The Piers “Crookedest t H a collection honor the past ert 19 bard Washington A ill Filb Plaza V Lom Street” wich reen v B ballparks across the land. a G Square lvd 30 e of red brick buildings that served with its historic renovation and n I 76 F A N n c o r i l n e U l 39 o e Russian e 4 Cable Car Museum, as a chocolate factory, now is a embrace the future with public Cable car on Russian Hill L h Mason and 29 n s y a P o s t Hill u r P D o ch k s nwi A ert Washington Streets, has a visitors charming restaurant and pier access and nearly 20,000 o b e l e re i Fi a w 29 G n Public Russian Hill v has country-like l v k B 7 e 23 P North S i Access e s 21 n a gallery and a museum with 19th shopping center with open-air square feet of restaurants and ree a o ion l G t n t lanes and terraces and panoram - U n l Beach e w - s o t 45 M r Vallej Filber o y F century photos of cable car plazas and waterfront views. cafes. e Hornblower m ic bay views. Lombard Street y Ln a l ndra co 8x e l Ma s 3 45 - operations and scale models. Across the street is landscaped o 23 n H Unio en P Ferries to: Pier 7 Public Fishing Pier is descends the hill from Hyde, Gre n y ejo 45 y 12 The Vallejo Victorian Park. all a Union d V adw 10 22 San 35 L Bro Embarcadero Piers Tiburon 5 The Cannery, an inviting three- designed to serve both fisher - with nine hairpin turns in a e i P 1 Street n Francisco L 13 reen Vallejo e e Jackson Ferries to level restoration that was once a Haas-Lilenthal House, an 1886 men and tourists alike. It is 840 single block. G i el Jack ific Av Bay n Tunn t Pac 15 oadway erouac S Square Sausalito & e y Br 8x K Barbary Victorian at 2007 Franklin, is feet in length and is the second Broadwa Larkspur canning factory, is now filled 30 San Francisco Museum of 76 12 W Gold CCoastoast P Ferry T e 9 San Francisco Bay jo R alle r D Building with a spectrum of shops, gal - open Sundays, as well as longest fishing pier in San V e 19 n H o F Modern Art, housed in an n r Walking Trail 49 t on s w s o ck u Ferries to t Ja 10 P o s t m o a 10 Alameda & Wednesday afternoons. Francisco. h n Justin This shoreline walking leries and restaurants. A nearby r l e i m v o t impressive new building, is the y A n wa cific ohn h 10 Oakland ad a e J Herman and biking trail begins Bro P Chinese g n center, the nautically-inspired i t Plaza 24 47 x 10 45 Culture Merchan P 1 Amtrak at AT&T Park and 14 Hyde St Pier is located at the Pier 14 Public Pier is open daily principal center for modern art Jackson 12 27 Center N Depot goes through Marina 30 P Transamerica Embarcadero Anchorage, offers shopping, Pacific Cable Portsmouth Clay Pyramid 24 14 Public Green, the Presidio west end of Fisherman’s Wharf to the public from 7:00am – in the Bay Area. Hwy 4 8 Center 10 Car S Access Square cial D 5 14 38 National Park, and dining and lodging as well. 27 er a and is home to a fleet of historic 8:00pm, allowing visitors to stroll m B m F 101 on o 1 a gt Museum H C 12 hin P n F across the Golden 31 San Francisco Railway Museum s r a San Wa v 71 76 1 a a ento s o 10 J am t i 31 n r s g ac o t n Francisco Gate Bridge to o S e BART/Muni 6 Chinatown vessels and maritime history. on the 637-foot pier while taking S g evokes all the o m t Chinese i c r is a free museum of interactive Haas-Lilienthal p d a Railway 1 y Embarcadero Sausalito and Tiburon. 13 e 1 e 27 r Historical a h House Clay o Station n Museum exotic sights and sounds of Hong in sweeping views of the Bay Nob u Society a o 15 Jackson Square has preserved exhibitions supporting the 20 l rni i e Califo s S Clay 1 Hill 6 Chinatown M J K is te K Financial u Kong or Canton, beginning at and city skyline. o M Lafayette ento 1 P e 17 14 a handsome 19th century build - vintage F Market streetcars. 1 27 ram n r ac a Rincon S Grace S L M N t Park t District 10 r g t San Francisco Cathedral o n Center the Chinatown Gate, Grant o e c n Rincon ings occupied by antique dealers, y Pi 12 M Oakland m 32 1 k a 28 San Francisco Visitor B rnia t 38 i Park o o alif e n Bay Avenue at Bush Street.
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