Haight-Ashbury
The street corner that gave the Summer of Love its address.
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Beats priced out of North Beach arrived here in the late 1950s; by 1967 the neighborhood was one of the main centers of the counterculture movement. The streets are named for Henry Haight, a pioneer banker, and Munroe Ashbury, a city supervisor — both of whom helped plan the neighborhood and nearby Golden Gate Park.
What to look for
- The Haight and Ashbury intersection sign — the neighborhood's literal namesake
- The Golden Gate Park Panhandle to the north, terminus of the 1883 Haight Street cable car that first linked this area to downtown
- Buena Vista Park at the eastern edge of the district
Walk Haight Street west from the intersection to Stanyan Street, where it meets Golden Gate Park.
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More to see in San Francisco
- Golden Gate BridgeOpened May 27, 1937 as simultaneously the world's longest and tallest suspension bridge — you can walk the 4,200-foot main span yourself.
- Alcatraz IslandFor 29 years, cold Bay tidal currents did what bars alone could not — make escape nearly impossible.
- Transamerica PyramidAn 853-foot pyramid that ruled San Francisco's skyline for 45 years — still on the Transamerica logo even though the company quietly moved its HQ to Baltimore.
- Golden Gate ParkSan Francisco turned three miles of bare shifting sand dunes into the country's third-busiest urban park — starting from scratch in 1870.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)The West Coast's first museum devoted solely to 20th-century art, now stretched across 170,000 square feet after a 2016 expansion that nearly sextupled public space.
- Alcatraz Federal PenitentiaryA 9-by-5-foot cell surrounded by cold bay currents — the federal government once staked its reputation on the claim that no one could leave.