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| Things to do with Kids and Teens in San Francisco
If you’re going to San Francisco…be prepared to have fun there! This culturally diverse waterfront historic town has a wide variety of museums, theaters, events and communities to satisfy the curiosities of any visitor. The area is renowned for its mild climates, steep hills, trolley cars and liberal spirit.
This Marina Rocks!... Fisherman's Wharf is one of San Francisco’s most popular attraction for guests visiting the beautiful City by the Bay. Many head straight to this waterfront area, where you’ll enjoy the perfect view of the bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, and...
A Tour of Total Confinement... At Alcatraz island isolation, one of the constants of island life for any inhabitant - soldier, guard, prisoner, Indian, bird or plant - is a recurrent theme in the unfolding...
Peer into Pier 39... At Pier 39 calls itself a “festival marketplace” and “San Francisco’s #1 family attraction.” Truly a place the whole family will love, the pier features more than 100 stores, a dozen bay-view restaurants, ongoing daily entertainment, and attractions for all ages.
Choco-Fun... Ghirardelli Square, a San Francisco- style shopping complex, is home to one of the world’s most famous chocolate manufacturers, superb waterfront dining, art galleries and numerous family events. Over a century ago, Ghirardelli Square was home...
The Times Square of SF... Union Square, designated a park in 1850, is one of San Francisco’s major retail areas and also the city’s center for culture and the arts. Years ago, this area was a grassy slope, but since renovations, it’s now a raised
Spend The Day with a Wild Bunch... The San Francisco Zoo has been a favorite attraction of city visitors since it opened in the late 1930s. What started with one California grizzly bear has blossomed into one of the country’s finest zoos and, thanks to recent renovations, the zoo continues to...
Fancy some Dumplings?... Chinatown in San Francisco is home to the largest concentration of Chinese citizens outside of Asia. This neighborhood is one of the most visited in the city and tourists travel here for the fine food, unique shops, and other important cultural...
Workout San Francisco Style... With more than 40 hills the Lyon/Broadway Stairway...
Ride Crooked... Lombard Street has been dubbed “The Crookedest Street in America” and indeed it is. Anyone who’s visiting San Francisco will surely want to take a ride down this winding thoroughfare, enjoying not only the ride but also the view from the...
Hang On... Cable Cars remain, after more than 125 years, one of San Francisco’s most beloved attractions. There’s nothing more exciting than riding down one of the city’s famous hills on a cable car, wondering - while it’s careening down the steep hill - whether or not it will be able...
Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy... Aquarium of the Bay, constructed in 1996, is dedicated to educating the general public about the marine life that’s abundant in the San Francisco Bay and the surrounding waters and hopes to inspire visitors to assist in preserving this wonderful natural resource and others...
Peace and Love Dude... The "Summer of Love" lives on mainly in stores throughout this charming Victorian sector; vintage clothing, books and records are abundant along Haight Ashbury Street, the neighborhood‘s busiest stretch. Places of interest include...
It's Really Red... The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable bridges in the world. This beautiful orange-colored bridge has been ushering travelers from downtown San Francisco to beautiful neighboring Marin County since 1937, when it officially opened...
Nature in the City... The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival encompasses over 200 artistic, cultural and community events that occur each May through October in Yerba Buena Gardens. The events are all free to the public and include popular and operatic music series, cultural...
Discover Science... The Lawrence Hall of Science is just one of the many wonderful places waiting to be discovered on the campus of the nearby University of California at Berkeley.
Italy in San Francisco... North Beach is one of San Francisco’s many wonderful historic neighborhoods. The area made a name for itself as the center of the Beatnik movement in the 1960s, associated with such famous names as Jack Kerouac.
Turning Japanese... The Japanese Tea Garden had its beginnings as part of a Japanese Village exhibit for the 1894 Midwinter Fair in San Francisco. When the exposition was closed, Baron Hagiwara Makoto approached the City of San Francisco with the idea of a Japanese...
Farmer's Market... The The Cannery is located within easy walking distance of popular Fisherman’s Wharf and is a delightful area for all ages to enjoy. Once the home of Del Monte’s Plant #1, the largest peach factory in the world, it’s now the site of more than 30 stores and restaurants, a maritime museum, an open-air Farmer’s Market, and a Parisian-style antiques market.
Boats, Buffalo, Grass and More... The Golden Gate Park is one of the largest urban parks in the world, even bigger than New York City’s famous Central Park. Wisely, it was deeded as park area way back in 1870, with the thought that someday, San Franciscan’s would feel crowded due to the quick growth occurring is this beautiful city after the Gold Rush. This park has just about everything for the visitor to the City by the Bay.
Check Out the View... At the very top of Telegraph Hill stands the 210-foot Coit Tower, built in 1933 with funds left to the City by philanthropist Lillie Hitchcock Coit, an eccentric who was known for their admiration of San Francisco's fire fighters who fought the 1906 earthquake fires.
Now This is Cool... The Buffalo Paddock. The Golden Gate Park boasts about its buffalo. The buffalo live in a massive corral and graze...graze...graze. The good news: the buffalo really are there. The bad news: the corral they call home is massive--acres and acres in size--and there are but a few buffalo, meaning it’s difficult to see them up close.
Other great family attractions include:
Six Flags Marine World
Paramount Great America
Oakland Zoo
Chabot Space and Science Center
Japantown
Fort Mason
Hard Rock Cafe
Hyde Street Pier
Muir Woods
Sausalito
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
The Presidio
Transamerica Pyramid
Ferry Terminal
Cliff House
Jack London Square
Max Opera Cafe
Marina District
The Mission
Baker Beach
Alamo Square
Angel Island
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