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San Francisco - The Embarcadero |
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Wells Fargo Museum (420 Montgomery St.) – This museum is one of the "hidden treasures" in San Francisco. The Wells Fargo bank operated stagecoaches that transported gold from the gold fields. In the museum, kids will see big gold nuggets, gold scales, strong boxes, and a hundred year old stagecoach. Try your hand sending messages in Morse code on a telegraph key, or feel like a passenger on the overland route in a simulated stagecoach ride. The museum is free and open Monday to Friday. | |
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Transamerica Pyramid – The Transamerica building is the tallest building in San Francisco. Check out the "virtual observation deck" in the lobby. You can control four cameras mounted on the top of the building, panning around north, south, east and west for views of the city. Don't miss the scale model of the Transamerica Pyramid, for a top-down view of this San Francisco landmark. | ||
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Redwood Park – Next to the Transamerica building is Redwood Park, planted with tall California redwood trees. It has a delightful statue of kids skipping and jumping and a pond with leaping bronze frogs. There are benches and tables, perfect for lunch outdoors. | ||
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Farmers' Market (Ferry Building) – Sample the abundance of California fruits and vegetables farmers' market. You'll find locally grown boysenberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, avocados, dried fruit, nuts, honey, melons, grapes, tomatoes. Pick up some local cheese, bread or foccacia, fruits, muffins, scones, pastries, cobbler, turnovers, cookies, or fruitbreads, and have a picnic. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Saturday is the largest market, crowded with food vendors, and food to eat al fresco, along the edge of the bay. | ||
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Walk along the Embarcadero – The Embarcadero ("wharf") was once a busy port, stuffed with ships loading and unloading passengers and tons of cargo. Today the Embarcadero is a wide tree-lined promenade. You can walk all the way from Market Street at the Ferry Building to Fisherman's Wharf one direction, or the AT& T Park the other way. Between Pier 5 and Pier 9, walk out onto the pier jutting out in the bay – it's a great place for kids to watch the boats go by. | ||
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AT&T Park – Even if you don't have tickets to see a Giants baseball game at AT & T Park, you can watch. Right by McCovey Cove (where the homerun balls fly into the water), under the stadium is standing room to see the game in progress. |
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Ride the ferries – From behind the Ferry Building,
take the Golden
Gate Ferry to Sausalito or Larkspur. For ferries to Jack London Square
in Oakland, take the East
Bay Ferry. |
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Note: Getting from the ferry to the Bay Model. From the ferry landing in Sausalito, it's a 20 minute walk down Bridgeway, or get a free bus transfer on the ferry. |
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The
Bay Model (Sausalito)