Highlights walking around San Francisco, California, USA
Here are a few highlights from walking - and running - around the streets of San Francisco. This is not so much a single walk, as a collection of personal recollections and highlights from 3 visits to the city over an 8 year period. It's a place that's full of colour, varied architecture, dramatic views and locations familiar from the cinema - the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, the Financial District, and the cable cars climbing up steep city streets, are all iconic images of one of the great cities of the USA. For those who enjoy hiking round cities, San Francisco must be one of the best - it even has steep hills to get the muscles working and heart pumping.
Story contributed by Andrew Llanwarne
Key Facts
| Location | San Francisco USA |
| Date walked | 1997, 2000, 2003 |
| Walk type | Town and City walks |
| Difficulty | Varied, mostly easy but with some steep hills |
| Distance | Varies |
| Height climbed | Varies |
| Time taken | 2 hrs 0 mins |
| Map used | Tourist brochure map, and Dorling Kindersley city guidebook |
| Walk source info | Dorling Kindersley guidebook and tourist literature |
| Disabled access | Yes |
