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A VIRTUAL TOUR THRU S.F. MISSION DISTRICT
GO HERE TO BAY AREA BACKROADS TO VIEW A LARGER VERSION OF
THE MAP WHERE YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG
PORTIONS OF THE BLUE LINE WE TOOK (in the lower middle portion
of map)
San Francisco’s Mission District Bike Adventure (#2) -‘Under-rated Gem’
Our first San Francisco adventure was one of our most popular ‘Bay Area Backroads’ treks, featuring a
This weekend we ventured out into the Mission District including areas we’d actually never set foot in
before, including the beautiful ‘Delores’ neighborhood including the beautiful Delores Park and Mission.
Again, we were on bike which is now probably the best way to see San Francisco, what with all the bike
lanes and now since they limit car traffic in many areas. We had initially planned to do a large chunk of
the 70-year-old ’49-mile Scenic Drive.’ We did manage to cover pieces of it but it will take several trips
since the path is broken up with many signs missing. However, you will see one of those signs on this
trip… Come along for the ride…
Virtual two minute bike ride through the Mission District – Please
excuse our shaky ‘home grown’ dash cam
Coming from the East Bay, we took the first easy exit (Fifth Street)
off the Bay Bridge to avoid the heavy traffic this Sunday, August 28, 2016. Found a nice parking spot on the corner of Brannan and Sixth Street on the frontage road. FREE Parking today (Sundays)! Got out
the bike and on our way…
The plan will be a loop covering taking us West to Caesar Chavez and up Delores Street and back, but then, you never know with us… We don’t depend solely on maps which leaves us some freedom to end up, well, in some real adventures… and a few pickles ie ‘Thirty Minutes from Total Darkness.’
Among the many highlites of our Mission/South of Market Adventure were:
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