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Free Walking Tours of San Francisco

We are local volunteers who love the City, its history, lore and legends...and we're ready to share it all with you.
Start by reading our Frequently Asked Questions. Then see our list of tours, current schedule or select a tour by neighborhood.
Our free, regularly scheduled tours are offered for individuals and groups of 7 or fewer persons. Larger groups must arrange for a private group tour. Click here for information on booking private group tours.

Palace Hotel Historic Tour & Lunch Offer

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Celebrate the Palace Hotel's extraordinary history with a special lunch and tour promotion. Enjoy a 2-course lunch with soft drink for just $25.00 (excluding tax & gratuity) and combine your lunch with a tour of the historic hotel. Lunch reservations will be available in the Garden Court through January 2012. For more information or to make a reservation, click: http://sfpalace.com/Upcoming-Events

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Join an outstanding tradition of providing entertaining and educational walks of San Francisco to visitors and residents by becoming a City Guide.

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Golden Gate Park Tours

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San Francisco City Guides and San Francisco Parks Alliance have joined forces to offer enticing new tours of Golden Gate Park. The first tours to be offered are:

Private Group Tours

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Play tourist on your own turf and explore San Francisco the best way possible - on foot with City Guides. For a modest donation, let us arrange a private tour for your group.

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School Tours

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San Francisco City Guides offers a unique opportunity to enhance your students' classroom experiences. For your next field trip, join a trained volunteer guide on a tour of San Francisco.

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Our Guides Write

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GuideLines is the monthly newsletter for City Guides containing historical articles written by our tour guides.

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 Upcoming Tours    

Saturday February 4    
10:00 am - North Beach
10:00 am - Omni Hotel Walk
10:00 am - Palace Hotel
10:00 am - Chinatown
11:00 am - Mission Murals
11:00 am - Pacific Heights Mansions
11:00 am - Castro: Tales Of The Village
11:00 am - Landmark Victorians Of Alamo Square
11:00 am - Coit Tower Murals
12:00 pm - Ferry Building
1:00 pm - Palace Of Fine Arts/Marina
1:00 pm - Telegraph Hill Stairway Hike
1:00 pm - Japanese Tea Garden
1:00 pm - Fire Department Museum
1:00 pm - Fort Mason To Aquatic Park
2:00 pm - Land's End: Sutro Heights
2:00 pm - Mission Bay: Hidden Waters
2:00 pm - Japantown, Urban Renewal and Fillmore Jazz

Sunday February 5    
10:00 am - Cow Hollow
11:00 am - Castro: Tales Of The Village
11:00 am - Mission Dolores Neighborhood
11:00 am - Japanese Tea Garden
11:00 am - Golden Gate Bridge
11:00 am - Rising Steel: Two Centuries Of San Francisco Architecture
11:00 am - Haight-Ashbury
11:00 am - Downtown Deco
11:00 am - Billionaire's Row: Outer Broadway Architecture
11:00 am - Dogpatch and Potrero Point
1:00 pm - Fire Department Museum (Tour Cancelled)
1:00 pm - Japanese Tea Garden
1:00 pm - Golden Gate Park: East End
1:30 pm - Noe Valley: A Village Within the City
2:00 pm - Nob Hill
2:00 pm - Gold Rush City
2:00 pm - Victorian San Francisco

Monday February 6    
9:30 am - Japanese Tea Garden
10:00 am - 1906: Earthquake And Fire
10:00 am - Chinatown
11:00 am - Fisherman's Wharf: A Hidden History
1:30 pm - Chinatown

Tuesday February 7    
10:00 am - Palace Hotel
11:00 am - Castro: Tales Of The Village
11:00 am - City Hall and the Civic Center
12:00 pm - Ferry Building
12:00 pm - Main Library Tour
1:30 pm - Historic Market Street: Path Of Gold

Wednesday February 8    
9:30 am - Japanese Tea Garden
10:00 am - Theatre In San Francisco
11:00 am - Tastes & Tales Of North Beach
11:00 am - Gold Rush City
11:00 am - Coit Tower Murals
1:00 pm - 1906: Phoenix Rising
1:00 pm - Japanese Tea Garden
2:00 pm - Nob Hill

Thursday February 9    
10:00 am - Historic Market Street: Path Of Gold
11:00 am - City Hall and the Civic Center
11:00 am - Golden Gate Bridge
12:00 pm - Ferry Building
1:00 pm - Japanese Tea Garden
1:00 pm - Fire Department Museum (Tour Cancelled)
1:00 pm - Fort Mason To Aquatic Park
2:00 pm - Nob Hill
2:00 pm - Palace Hotel

Friday February 10    
9:30 am - Japanese Tea Garden/Stow Lake/Strawberry Hill
10:00 am - South of Market Architecture Stroll
10:00 am - City Scapes And Public Places
11:00 am - Fisherman's Wharf: A Hidden History
1:00 pm - Fort Mason Historic District
1:00 pm - Fire Department Museum
1:30 pm - City Scapes And Public Places
1:30 pm - Gold Rush City

Saturday February 11    
10:00 am - Palace Hotel
10:00 am - North Beach
10:00 am - Omni Hotel Walk
10:00 am - Chinatown
11:00 am - Pacific Heights Mansions
11:00 am - SOMA & Yerba Buena Gardens
11:00 am - Golden Gate Park: West End
11:00 am - Inner Sunset: The Birth Of A Neighborhood
11:00 am - Castro: Tales Of The Village
11:00 am - Coit Tower Murals
12:00 pm - Ferry Building
1:00 pm - Fort Mason To Aquatic Park
1:00 pm - Japanese Tea Garden
1:00 pm - Fire Department Museum
1:00 pm - Telegraph Hill Stairway Hike
1:00 pm - 1906: Presidio & The Earthquake
2:00 pm - Land's End: Sutro Heights
2:00 pm - Making Waves on the Waterfront

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