SF Crosstown Trail



Map also available via Google Maps.

PXL_20220528_155542521~2.jpg Heading to the trail start at Candlestick Point from the Bayshore Caltrain stop.

PXL_20220528_161516168~2.jpg Candlestick Point.

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PXL_20220528_164125847~2.jpg Vistacion Valley. Stepping up through the city passing through one of several neighborhood gardens.

PXL_20220528_165926569~2.jpg John McLaren Park. First view overlooking the middle of San Francisco Bay.

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I think of the country as a kind of palimpsest scrawled over with the comings and goings of people, the erasure of time already in process even as marks of passage are put down.

— Wendall Berry, The Art of the Commonplace

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One by one the roads were paved and civilization encroached.

— Frank Taylor, Vistacion Valley resident

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PXL_20220528_174049494~2.jpg University Mound.

PXL_20220528_174728178~2.jpg Crossing I-280 to St. Mary’s Park.

PXL_20220528_175432191~2.jpg St. Mary’s Park.

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PXL_20220528_193224693~2.jpg Glen Park.

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PXL_20220528_195119487.jpg Glen Canyon Park.

PXL_20220528_202226531~2.jpg Midtown Terrace near Twin Peaks.

PXL_20220528_204758703.jpg Forest Hill.

PXL_20220528_210126434.jpg Grand Pacheco Stairway.

PXL_20220528_212400341.jpg Golden Gate Heights.

PXL_20220528_213213294.jpg Grandview Park. Top of the Moraga Stairs.

PXL_20220528_214110344.jpg 16th Avenue Tiled Steps. Top.

PXL_20220528_214329205.jpg 16th Avenue Tiled Steps. Bottom.

PXL_20220528_215203449~2.jpg Hidden Garden Steps.

PXL_20220528_230428072.jpg Golden Gate Park. Near Strawberry Hill.

PXL_20220528_230810046.jpg Stow Lake.

PXL_20220528_231741713.jpg Pioneer East Meadow.

PXL_20220528_232509545~2.jpg Rose Garden.


Hike from Candlestick Point to Richmond District.


Bike ride to Presidio of San Francisco.

PXL_20220529_001348956.jpg At the edge of Lobos Creek headed toward the coast.

PXL_20220529_001929667.jpg Baker Beach.

PXL_20220529_013652339~2.jpg Lands End Lookout.


Final stretch from Sea Cliff to Sutro Heights on Lands End Trail.