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The 7 Best Things to do in Sutro Heights, California (CA)
Every neighborhood in San Francisco has its own personality, from the hippie chic of the Upper Haight to the hipster grit of the Mission. The Marina district boasts trendy bistros and postcard-perfect views of the Golden Gate Bridge, while Noe Valley offers quaint and quiet boutiques. Wave hello to the sea lions at Pier 39, and sample local cheese and charcuterie at the Ferry Building. Sit in on a yoga session in Dolores Park or marvel at the Dutch Windmill across from Ocean Beach.
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1. Green Dream Tours
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5.0 based on 1,971 reviews
Green Dream Tours is proud to be named a 2020 Travelers' Choice Award Winner! We specialize in Wine Country Tours, offering personal experiences in Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, and Alcatraz, seven days per week. Private Wine Country tours are available anytime for groups of any size. Other tours around the San Francisco Bay Area are available by request. Public tours include: wine tasting fees, pick-up and drop-off at most San Francisco hotels, complimentary bottled water, a winery tour, and a photo stop at the Golden Gate Bridge! Public tours are given in new 14-passenger luxury mini-buses, featuring comfortable seats with extra legroom, wide windows, and air-conditioning. Tours may also run in our luxury van. Our fun and professional guides will educate you, and go out of their way to make sure you are having a great experience! We offer the highest quality tours with the best-value pricing in San Francisco. Our focus is on personal service, and great value!
2. Black Cars Transportation
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5.0 based on 9 reviews
Black Cars Transportation is specializing in sightseeing tours in San Francisco Bay area and Northern California. SF city tours, Muir Woods & Sausalito, Napa & Sonoma, Monterey & Carmel, and airport transportation.
3. Capital Limo - Tours and VIP transportation in San Francisco
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Luxury transportation and sightseeing guided tours in San Francisco, Bay Area and all California. Wine tasting tours to Napa and Sonoma Valleys, airport-hotel transfers, transportation for weddings, proms, parties, corporate events and VIP chauffeured services. Luxurious buses, SUV, vans, mini-vans, town cars and limousines.
4. Lands End
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4.5 based on 2,832 reviews
At the northwestern corner of San Francisco, there is a series of stunning views at every turn in this wild and windy trail. Hillsides of cypress and wildflowers, views of shipwrecks and access to the ruins of Sutro baths, a San Francisco specials memory.
Reviewed By rogerjr2016
You should visit the Cliff House which is situated alongside the remains of "Sutro Baths"where you will have a fine view of ships entering and leaving San Francisco. Also from the Cliff House (well known San Francisco restaurant) overlooking Seal Rock and Ocean Beach you can hike the trails of Lands End and visit the coffee shop and gift center there run by the National Parks. From there if you proceed up the hill further , you will come to a traffic light opposite Seal Rock Inn. if you turn left there and travel all the way up the hill to the parking area you will see the WW2 memorial dedicated to the USS San Francisco which was heavily damaged by Japanese shells which killed Admiral Callaghan while he was present on the bridge of that ship. A stark reminder of the horrors of war are the ships bridge wings full of shell holes and the mast from that battle which stand at the western end of that parking lot with the names of all the Marines and Sailors who lost their lives on that ship. You will see excellent viewing there of the entrance to San Francisco with a view of Golden Gate bridge to the East and Northern Headlands of Marin County. There are public toilets also provided up there should you need to use them.You can read the history on the panoramic plaques there describing shipwrecks and the flora and fauna which you experience in the area.
5. Sutro Heights Park
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4.5 based on 33 reviews
Located at the westernmost point of Lands End, the Sutro Historic District encompasses Sutro Heights, the Sutro Bath ruins and the historic Cliff House.
Reviewed By Kittygal - Los Angeles, United States
I visited here as a teen on my very first trip to San Francisco and totally fell in love with its wild beauty. During my grad school days, I escaped to walk it's windswept trails and stare out at the vast ocean that stretched all the way to Japan. Now when I visit, I stay at the Seal Rock Inn so I can marvel at the sounds of hooting owls, foghorns and the sea. This past trip was my first return post Covid. The views are unchanged, but the shuttered Cliff House made me sad. The beauty of nature made up for it, though, and I look forward to a return.
6. Point Lobos
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4.0 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By cathyhI2643RD
What a great day can be had in this area. We caught the 38 geary road bus from market street to the last stop. About 45 minutes. Cliff house and the national park point lobos lands end walk start right at the end of the road. Great spot to start your day of hiking and amazing views. We had a coffee at the National parks office, good food choices here also but no seating, plenty outside with the best views. Toilets here to use. Good prices and healthy choices for food. We headed of the lands end trail track, super easy walking track of compressed dust gravel, easy to walk. Slight incline good for strollers and bikes. 30 min stroll to first look out, amazing distant bridge views, fog dependant, we had a cracker of a day sunshine, no clouds or fog. Good spot for photos, then we continued to walk to Point Lobos. This can be seen in the distance from the first lookout. About another 20 min easy walk to the stairs. There are about 150 stairs to descend to the bottom. Easy wide , gets more difficult at the end. You would have to carry a pram and part of the track is rutted and uphill down there. Awesome views of the old lighthouse, bridge, circle stone (not sure what that was about). Windy and cold if not a great day. Amazing bridge views from here. Return is by stairs, I’m not fit but I found these no dramas to hike up and down. We then returned to take the Sutro bath lookout track. I think we did the walk the best way, if you do the baths first there are heaps more stairs, 100’s all uphill, by doing the lookout first then the baths the steps are downhill and I think the walk is better all round. We crossed the bath ruins to cliff house side, unless you do a hilltrack scramble like we did you need to return and go back up the stairs. We made our way up the dirt track to the road between the red building and cliff house, jumped the fence, easy to do there is a concrete block from a ruin there to help you over, someone had also placed a milk crate to help. Otherwise you can go up the side near cliff house and jump over at the staircase. We like adventure so did the track scramble as a bit of fun, you can get up and over even though it does not look like you can. This is a great day out, views, fun, history. We walked past cliff house to the beach and then caught the 5 bus back to Powell Street from Fulton street right at the start of the bus run near Safeway supermarket.(use the windmill as a visual point guide) Excellent day, great hike, take a jacket if the fog or wind is up it will be freezing and miserable. We had full sun, blue sky. Loved every minute of the city walk 11/10
7. Green Dream Cannabis Tours
Are you curious about legal cannabis? San Francisco became the first city in the nation to legalize medical marijuana in 1991 and is the best place to take a cannabis tour. You'll learn about local history and the activists who pushed for legalization along with the basics of cannabis chemistry. Visit two popular cannabis dispensaries, where you can buy products. Consumption is 100% optional.
