Parkside

Worth seeing in and around Parkside

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.

   3.4 km · 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.

   3.2 km · public park in San Francisco, California, USA · Wikipedia
3. 03
   San Francisco State University

   San Francisco State University is a public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the California State University system.

   2.1 km · university in San Francisco, California, United States · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.6 km · natural history museum in San Francisco · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   3.6 km · fine arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park · Wikipedia
6. 06
   San Francisco Zoo

   The San Francisco Zoo and Gardens is a 100-acre zoo located on the West Side of San Francisco, in the southwestern corner of the city between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway. The zoo's main entrance is to the west, on the ocean side.

   1.7 km · zoo in San Francisco · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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.

   3.6 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
8. 08
   San Francisco Botanical Garden

   The San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum is located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Its 55 acres represents nearly 9,000 different kinds of plants from around the world, with particular focus on Magnolia species, high elevation palms, conifers, and cloud forest species from Central America, South America and Southeast Asia.

   3.3 km · botanical garden · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Sutro Tower

   Sutro Tower is a unique three-legged 297.8 m tall TV and radio lattice tower located on the West Side of San Francisco, California. Rising from a hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro near Clarendon Heights, it is a prominent feature of the city skyline and a landmark for city residents and visitors.

   3.3 km · TV and radio antenna tower in San Francisco · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Japanese Tea Garden

    The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California, is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. Though many of its attractions are still a part of the garden today, there have been changes throughout the history of the garden that have shaped it into what it is today.

    3.4 km · historic garden in San Francisco, California, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Parkside

Airports

San Francisco (SFO), 17 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 23 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 65 km

Stations

Q5468939, 2.5 km · Q7986281, 1.8 km · Q7076127, 3.2 km · Q7414114, 2.5 km · Q7619334, 1.9 km

• San Jose → Parkside

  5210 km · quickest by air, 18h 9m · $930–1,420
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• Sacramento → Parkside

  127 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $12–17
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• Fresno → Parkside

  264 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · $25–34
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