Stop comparing options and building your own itinerary. We have already done it, every pick includes the full plan, insider tips, reservation advice, maps, backups, and the exact order to do it in.
Every one runs start to finish, the spots, the timing, the order to do them in, plus reservations, maps, budgets, and a backup for each.
Muir Woods is a valley of old-growth coastal redwoods about thirty minutes north of the city, trees that were standing before the city existed, on flat, easy boardwalk trails anyone can walk.
This is the part that catches people out: Muir Woods requires an advance reservation for parking or for the shuttle, and there is no turning up on spec.
The single best decision of the day: don't drive back.
It costs a few dollars each way, needs no planning at all, and is the single easiest way to leave San Francisco without leaving the Bay Area.
Planning a guide like this yourself can take 4–6 hours. Here, it's already done, yours to download in seconds.
We've done every one of these guides ourselves.
Some are where we celebrate birthdays. Some are where we take friends visiting San Francisco. Some have just become our favorite “we don't even need to think about it” go-tos.
These are the guides we recommend to the people we care about most.
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