Noe Valley: the sunny village
The 24th Street shops, steep streets of Victorians, and the corner of the city the fog forgets. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. 24th Street and Church
Start where the J-Church drops you near the top of the village strip. Noe Valley sits in a pocket the fog tends to slide past, so it's reliably sunnier than the avenues — start with a coffee and feel the difference.

2. The 24th Street shops
Walk the strip east — independent storefronts, the bakeries, the cheese and the children's shops that earned Noe Valley its stroller reputation. It's a village high street that happens to sit inside a city; browse it like one.

3. Noe Valley Town Square
A small civic plaza mid-strip that hosts the Saturday farmers' market. On a weekend morning it's the social centre of the neighbourhood; on a weekday it's a bench in the sun. Either works.

4. The downhill Victorian streets
Drop off the strip onto the quiet residential blocks — Jersey, Elizabeth, Fair Oaks — rows of flat-front and bay-window Victorians on streets steep enough to make you stop. This is the prettiest, emptiest part of the walk.

5. The upper blocks and the view
Climb a few blocks south toward the slope below Diamond Heights for the long look back over the Mission and downtown. You don't have to go to the very top; the view arrives well before the summit does.

6. Down toward 24th St Mission
Walk back down and east out of the village, dropping toward the flatland and the BART at 24th and Mission. The change from sunny village to busy corridor in a few blocks is the city showing its seams.

Noe Valley: the sunny village