San Francisco Bay Area Tours Directory

This site is all about sightseeing, walking, and budget tours in San Francisco Bay Area. Golden Gate Bridge, Muir Woods, Monterey and Carmel, Yosemite, Napa and Sonoma, and the rest of unique landmarks could be found here.  You can find links to many other points of interest as well as different tours operators in the area.

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• San Francisco

San Francisco is considered one of the most beautiful, postcard-perfect cities in the world, attracting tourists from around the globe. Yet visitors quickly learn that the City by the Bay requires a super-sized wallet or a realistic spending budget. Luckily, there are plenty of affordable things to do in San Francisco without sacrificing quality or leaving grandma back in Minnesota.  You can find ways of seeing San Francisco on the budget by visiting San Francisco .com.

• Monterey

The magnificent Monterey Peninsula has been called the greatest meeting of land, sea and sky and is recognized as an ideal vacation and business destination. This beautiful seaside community combines all the charm of small town America with an endless variety of recreational and cultural activities. Monterey's rich history, the saga of California's Mission Trail, historic Fisherman's Wharf and Cannery Row, 17 world-class golf courses, the world's best aquarium, a unique variety of shops and galleries and a spectacular assortment of parks and natural areas combine to provide a truly unrivaled place for your next getaway. Monterey .com brings the peninsula to you!

• Carmel

For first-time visitors to Carmel, there is a helpful pamphlet containing a self-guided walking tour of Carmel, along with other helpful guides and maps, which is available free of charge at the Carmel Visitor Center located on San Carlos between 5th and 6th, West Side, upstairs.  For more information visit Carmel.

• Alcatraz 

Out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, the island of Alcatraz is a world unto itself. 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 history of Alcatraz.

• Golden Gate Bridge

Welcome to the Golden Gate Bridge!  Acclaimed as one of the world's most beautiful bridges, there are many different elements to the Golden Gate Bridge which make it unique.  With its tremendous towers, sweeping cables and great span, the Bridge is a sensory beauty featuring color, sound and light.

The Golden Gate Bridge can be a very busy place, particularly during the summer months. It is estimated (1989 Survey of San Francisco Visitors by San Francisco Convention and Visitor Bureau) that approximately nine million people from around the world visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year.  For more information visit Golden Gate Bridge.

• Muir Woods

"This is the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world," declared conservationist John Muir when describing the majestic coast redwoods of Muir Woods, north of San Francisco Golden Gate.

Until the 1800's, many northern California coastal valleys were covered with coast redwood trees similar to those now found in Muir Woods National Monument. The forest along Redwood Creek in today's Muir Woods was spared from logging because it was hard to get to. Noting that Redwood Creek contained one of the San Francisco Bay Area's last uncut stands of old-growth redwood.  For more information visit Muir Woods.

• Yosemite

Yosemite National Park embraces a spectacular tract of mountain-and-valley scenery in the Sierra Nevada, which was set aside as a national park in 1890. The park harbors a grand collection of waterfalls, meadows, and forests that include groves of giant sequoias, the world's largest living things.

Highlights of the park include Yosemite Valley, and its high cliffs and waterfalls; Wawona's history center and historic hotel; the Mariposa Grove, which contains hundreds of ancient giant sequoias; Glacier Point's (summer-fall) spectacular view of Yosemite Valley and the high country; Tuolumne Meadows (summer-fall), a large sub-alpine meadow surrounded by mountain peaks; and Hetch Hetchy, a reservoir in a valley considered a twin of Yosemite Valley. For more information visit Yosemite.

• Napa and Sonoma

Most famous Northern California wine country counties.  Located only 45 minutes north of San Francisco Golden Gate, Sonoma Valley is best known for its award-winning wines and wineries. It is also home to numerous small farms, fabulous Wine Country restaurants, unique historical sites and attractions, beautiful scenery, wonderful shops and boutiques, world-class spas, hotels and Bed & Breakfast Inns, and a peaceful, relaxed atmosphere. For directions and a map to Sonoma Valley, visit Sonoma, Napa Valley is a little bit to the north, you can get more information by visiting Napa.

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