SF Crosstown Trail



Map also available via Google Maps.

image-resize Heading to the trail start at Candlestick Point from the Bayshore Caltrain stop.

image-resize Candlestick Point.

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image-resize Vistacion Valley. Stepping up through the city passing through one of several neighborhood gardens.

image-resize 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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image-resize University Mound.

image-resize Crossing I-280 to St. Mary’s Park.

image-resize St. Mary’s Park.

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image-resize Glen Park.

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image-resize Glen Canyon Park.

image-resize Midtown Terrace near Twin Peaks.

image-resize Forest Hill.

image-resize Grand Pacheco Stairway.

image-resize Golden Gate Heights.

image-resize Grandview Park. Top of the Moraga Stairs.

image-resize 16th Avenue Tiled Steps. Top.

image-resize 16th Avenue Tiled Steps. Bottom.

image-resize Hidden Garden Steps.

image-resize Golden Gate Park. Near Strawberry Hill.

image-resize Stow Lake.

image-resize Pioneer East Meadow.

image-resize Rose Garden.


Hike from Candlestick Point to Richmond District.


Bike ride to Presidio of San Francisco.

image-resize At the edge of Lobos Creek headed toward the coast.

image-resize Baker Beach.

image-resize Lands End Lookout.


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