5 results for tag: Scott Benbow
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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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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