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Lombard Street and Hyde Street, san francisco
Lombard Street is famous for being the most crooked street and offering beautiful scenic panoramic views in San Francisco. It is one block downhill zig-zag stretch between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets. The street was built in the 1920s to reduce the hill's natural 27% grade steepness by creating turns in the road earning it the name “crooked street.”
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501 Twin Peaks Blvd, san francisco
Twin Peaks, at 922 feet in elevation, is a world-famous tourist attraction that offers spectacular views of the Bay Area. The north peak (aka Eureka Peak) and south peak (aka Noe Peak) provide postcard views and a treasure trove of animal and plant diversity. Most visitors to Twin Peaks drive, walk or bike to the north peak parking lot to enjoy 180-degree views of the Bay Area.
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680 Point Lobos Ave, san francisco
Lands End is a wild and windy trail with stunning views at every turn at the northwestern corner of San Francisco. Along the way are hillsides of cypress and wildflowers, views of old shipwrecks, rocky cliffs above the ocean, access to the epic ruins of Sutro Baths in the Sutro Historic District, pocket beaches, spectacular views of the shore, headlands, and Golden Gate, and a new Lookout Visitor Center.
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1004 Point Lobos Ave, san francisco
Developed in 1894, Sutro Baths was the largest public indoor swimming pool complex on earth. Adolph Sutro, a wealthy businessman, built this to provide thousands of San Franciscans with a healthy, recreational, and inexpensive swimming facility. The power of the Pacific Ocean during high tide could fill the 1.7 million gallons of water required for all the pools in just one hour. The Baths could accommodate 10,000 people at one time and offered 20,000 bathing suits and 40,000 towels for rent.
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Mt Sutro, san francisco
An Urban Oasis, Mount Sutro is home to a vibrant, 61-acre open space reserve in the city's center. It is named after San Francisco Mayor (1894-1896) and real estate investor Adolph Sutro. The forest is heavily shaded under the tall Eucalyptus trees and has its own micro-climate. The forest remains cool and wet even when it is hot and dry in the surrounding. Forty-five species of birds, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, skinks, lizards, coyotes, possibly foxes, and other animals call home to this beautiful forest.