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San Francisco walking routes — 30 editor-picked walks with maps and what’s on

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30 routes — editor-walked, or clearly flagged until they are.

Walking is the only honest way through San Francisco's hills — routes from the Castro up Russian Hill to the fog-bank cliffs of Lands End.

San Francisco was laid out by someone who never had to climb it — a flat grid stamped onto forty-odd hills, which is precisely why it rewards the legs. Climb Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower, drop into North Beach for the espresso, then out to Lands End where the Pacific and the bridge argue over the view. The fog does as it pleases.

No leaderboards, no algorithm — just the walks the editor thought were worth your time, with notes on what to actually look at along the way.

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