12 results for tag: City Guide
Picture this: you’re in your starting corral at the San Francisco Marathon in July. You have trained well, but you’re nervous. It’s cold, dark, and very early in the morning. This year, you’ll have a massive piece of art to distract you from your pre-race jitters. Affixed to vertical wires on the Bay Bridge, you’ll ...
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Before you ever think about cars, tollbooths, or traffic reports, it helps to remember what the Golden Gate Bridge really is: a ribbon of steel stretched across one of the most dramatic entrances to any city on earth. For San Francisco Marathon runners, it is also the moment the race turns cinematic. You are running on a living ...
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San Francisco is defined by its natural edges: the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Bay to the north and east, and the steep hills in between. With the opening of Sunset Dunes, the city has added another defining feature to its landscape—an expansive new park that transforms a 2-mile stretch formerly known as the Great Highway ...
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Are you planning to run the San Francisco Marathon or the 1st Half Marathon? If yes, when the race-day morning comes, you'll be assembling with thousands of other runners at the start of the race in front of the Ferry Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark that has withstood the City’s booms, busts, politics, earthquakes, and ...
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If you’ve seen a photo of San Francisco’s skyline in the last few years, chances are you’ve spotted a sleek, silvery needle that rises high above the City: the Salesforce Tower. At 1,070 feet with 61 stories of glass and steel, it’s the tallest tower in Northern California. However, this skyscraper is more than just a ...
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June in San Francisco is synonymous with Pride, a time when the city bursts into a rainbow of colors and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community's resilience and history–and the epicenter of the City’s LGBTQ+ community is the Castro neighborhood.
Written by SFM Ambassador Scott Benbow
Edited by Pavlína Marek
Monuments of ...
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Another month, another city guide by SFM Ambassador and San Francisco local Scott Benbow! This time, let's explore the Dogpatch neighborhood, which got its name after the packs of stray dogs who used to roam its streets in the 1960s.
Written by Scott Benbow
Edited by Pavlína Marek
You’ll enter the Dogpatch neighborh...
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The San Francisco Marathon is a city race, but much of the course lies in quiet parks on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge. Because the race begins before sunrise, there aren’t too many spectators along the course for the first nineteen miles. That, however, changes once you run under the Alvord Lake Bridge onto Haight ...
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The Presidio Tunnel Tops, a park at the 4.5-mile mark of the San Francisco Marathon, opened to the public in 2022 and has become a popular destination. On a clear day, the views of the Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Marin Headlands are breathtaking. On a cloudy, cold, or rainy day, Tunnel Tops provides fascinating indoor ...
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Welcome to an exploration of San Francisco’s vibrant culture and astonishing history. Each month, we’ll focus on a different San Francisco subject, uncovering the stories that have shaped the city’s character. This time around, it's the historic streetcar F-Market Line. If you’re running the San Francisco Marathon and ...
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