SF City Guides
SF’s “Fleet Week” 2026 Air Show + Full Schedule (Oct. 4-12)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates Look up in the sky when you hear the roaring of jet engines and head down to SF’s northern waterfront for San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week air show and festival. San Francisco Fleet Week returns October 4-12, 2026, bringing more than a full week of military bands, ship tours, the Parade more...
Bay Area’s Best Pumpkin Patches for 2026
Bay Area Favorites, Fun & Games, Halloween Get into the fall spirit by picking out your favorite pumpkin at a local pumpkin patch. Best of all, nearly all of the pumpkin patches listed below offer free admission for all. Some fun fall activities like their corn mazes or hayrides may require a fee though. Here’s a list of more...
Free Museum Days in San Francisco + Bay Area (2026)
Get Out: Events, Museums / Cultural Institutions Whether the economy is strong or sour, most of the museums in San Francisco and the Bay Area throw their doors open once a month to allow free admission to all comers. Generally on the first Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of each month, these free days are often crowded, but if more...
2026 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park: Full Schedule, Maps, What to Bring (Oct. 2-4)
Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco, Parks & Beaches Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is one of the largest, free-est and beloved music festivals in the country. Be one of over 750,000 attendees over the three-day musical extravaganza in beautiful Golden Gate Park. Save the date as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass makes its return for 2026. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2026 October 2-4, 2026Golden Gate Park, San more...
Uniqlo Returns to Downtown SF After 5 Years
Block Party, Brand New, Downtown San Francisco UNIQLO Market Street celebrates its grand opening with a free street festival (Oct 9) on Ellis Street between Stockton and Powell. The event includes DJ sets on two stages, interactive art and science activities, street soccer, Japanese calligraphy and origami workshops, food vendors, giveaways, and six large-scale Market Street art more...
SF Opera Hosts Rare Costume Sale “Treasure Hunt” for Halloween
Artsy Fartsy, Halloween Your Halloween costume could have a much better backstory this year. San Francisco Opera is opening its costume collection for a two-day sale in Burlingame, offering a rare chance to take home actual theatrical costumes from decades of productions at the War Memorial Opera House. Browse Victorian gowns, Renaissance doublets, embroidered military more...
45-Foot-Tall Naked Sculpture Leaving SF After 18 Months
Artsy Fartsy, Downtown San Francisco, Goodbye After a year and a half, Celebrate Marco Cochrane’s 45-ft “R-Evolution” naked sculpture with a free celebration with live performances, music & a dance party at Embarcadero Plaza on October 2, 2026 from 05:30 PM – 08:00 PM A Final Celebration at Marco Cochrane’s R-Evolution, presented by Big Art Loop After gracing San Francisco’s waterfront more...
SF’s “ZooLights” w/ Frozen Forest Back for First Time in 8 Years
Christmas, Get Out: Events, Holiday Lights, Holidays San Francisco Zoo & Gardens is back with an all-new, two-month-long ZooLights evening holiday program that will light up the Zoo in spectacular fashion from November 6, 2026 through January 3, 2027. The nighttime event represents the return of ZooLights – which the Zoo last hosted in 2018 – for the first more...
SF’s “Terror Vault” 1874 Halloween Haunt is Back for 2026 ($10 Off Tix)
Bay Area Favorites, Deals, Get Out: Events, Halloween, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, Sponsored San Francisco’s premiere haunted attraction returns for 2026 with “SLASHED: Return to Hellville” an all-new, bigger, and more terrifying theatrical and immersive experience from the insane mind of Peaches Christ. Brand new for 2026: Thirty-seven years after the infamous Hellville massacre, a terrifying new evil has awakened. Step inside Terror Vault’s most more...
Fall Colors of the Bay: Where to See the Leaves Change | 2026
Fall, Outdoorsy The Bay Area may not be renowned for its fall colors, but with a bit of planning, you can still find some gorgeous autumn foliage. From Japanese maples and ginkgos in San Francisco gardens to golden vineyards in Wine Country, here are some of our favorite places to go leaf-peeping more...
Iconic Haight & Ashbury Corner Could Get a New Music Hub From KEXP
Brand New, San Francisco The iconic corner of Haight and Ashbury could soon have a whole lot more music. KEXP, the Seattle-based nonprofit public radio station, has been selected as the sole finalist to transform San Francisco’s historic Doolan-Larson House and Storefronts into a new music and cultural hub, in partnership with Blue Bear more...
Free Rooftop Stargazing Nights w/ Huge Telescopes in San Francisco (Fall 2026)
Fall, Get Out: Events San Francisco State University Observatory hosts a free public open night with family-friendly astronomy talks, updates on astronomy research, and rooftop telescope observing. Programming is offered in English and Spanish, weather permitting. Located at SFSU Thornton Hall top floor Upcoming Weekly Schedule Through Dec. 4, 2026 Wednesday, Thursday + Friday evenings when skies more...
Downtown SF Is Getting a New Pro Women’s Sports Team in 2027
Brand New, Downtown San Francisco, Support the Bay San Francisco is getting a new professional sports team, and it’s taking over a venue that has already seen its share of big games. The San Francisco Signal, a new women’s professional volleyball team, will make Bill Graham Civic Auditorium its home starting in January 2027. The team will play more...
Mexican Navy 297-Foot “Tall Ship” Visits SF & Sails Under Golden Gate Bridge
Celebrations, Downtown San Francisco If you’ve ever wanted to see a tall ship sail into San Francisco Bay, set an alarm for Wednesday, September 23, 2026. The Mexican Navy’s Cuauhtémoc, with its towering masts and web of rigging, is expected to pass beneath the Golden Gate Bridge around 8:45 a.m. UPDATE! The Cuauhtémoc is now more...
Massive 200-Foot “Grass Painting” Coming to SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens
Artsy Fartsy A pair of giant, interlocking hands will stretch nearly 200 feet across the Great Lawn at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens this October. At 197 feet by 49 feet, the artwork will cover roughly two NBA basketball courts’ worth of grass, running from near Mission Street toward the Martin Luther King, more...
