Cole Valley, San Francisco

Worth seeing in and around Cole Valley, San Francisco

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of California, San Francisco

   The University of California, San Francisco is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science.

   800 m · public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Golden Gate Park

   Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts on the West Side of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the largest urban park in the city, containing 1,017 acres, and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.

   2.5 km · public park in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of San Francisco

   The University of San Francisco is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 1855, it has nearly 9,000 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in 59 major programs.

   1.6 km · Jesuit Catholic university in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia
4. 04
   M. H. de Young Memorial Museum

   The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California, United States, named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. Located on the West Side of the city in Golden Gate Park, it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, along with the Legion of Honor.

   1.8 km · fine arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park · Wikipedia
5. 05
   California Academy of Sciences

   The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research.

   1.6 km · natural history museum in San Francisco · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

   The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. FAMSF's combined attendance was 1,158,264 visitors in 2022, making it the fifth most attended art institution in the United States.

   1.8 km · public arts institution in the city of San Francisco; comprises the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Archdiocese of San Francisco

   The Archdiocese of San Francisco is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It was erected in 1853.

   3.2 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

   The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. The museum building and its permanent collection are owned by the City of San Francisco.

   3.4 km · museum in San Francisco, California · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Alamo Square

   Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California with a park of the same name. Located in the Western Addition, its boundaries are Buchanan Street on the east, Turk Street on the north, Baker Street on the west, and Page Street Street on the south.

   1.8 km · residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, United States · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Pink Triangle Park

    The Pink Triangle Park is a triangle-shaped mini-park located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. The park is less than 4,000 square feet and faces Market Street with 17th Street to its back.

    1.2 km · mini-park located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cole Valley, San Francisco

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San Francisco (SFO), 17 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 21 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 64 km

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  263 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · $24–33
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