Xmas Weekend: 30 Free Guided Walking Tours
San Francisco City Guides offer free guided walking tours of many different neighborhoods in the city and will be offering a full slate of free tours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Have friends and relatives in town with nothing to do? Gather up the folks and show off the magnificent city you love with one of the many tours happening around Christmas, and even on Christmas day.
Learn something new yourself and impress everyone at the upcoming NYE parties.
2017 Christmas Weekend Tour Schedule
All walks are free, although donations to the tour guides are, of course, appreciated.Saturday, December 23
11:00 am – Fairmont Hotel Tour – RSVP Required
10:00 am – Ferry Building
10:00 am – Chinatown
10:00 am – Omni Hotel Walk
11:00 am – Port of San Francisco: Turbulent Waterfront
11:00 am – Golden Gate Park: West End
11:00 am – Coit Tower Murals
11:00 am – Pacific Heights Mansions
11:00 am – Castro: Tales Of The Village
1:00 pm – Japanese Tea Garden*
1:00 pm – Telegraph Hill Stairway Hike
1:00 pm – Scandalous Murals of Rincon Center
1:00 pm – 1906: Earthquake And Fire
1:00 pm – Presidio: From Military Post to Earthquake Refuge to National Park
1:30 pm – 1850’s San Francisco: Paris Of The Pacific
2:00 pm – Silent Film San Francisco
2:00 pm – Japantown
2:00 pm – Land’s End: Sutro HeightsSunday, December 24
- 11:00 am – Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco
- 11:00 am – Castro: Tales Of The Village
- 11:00 am – Haight-Ashbury
- 11:00 am – Golden Gate Bridge
- 11:00 am – Japanese Tea Garden – 11 am*
- 1:00 pm – Japanese Tea Garden*
- 1:00 pm – Murals And The Multi-Ethnic Mission
- 2:00 pm – Victorian San Francisco
Monday, December 25
- 9:30 am – Japanese Tea Garden
- 11:00 am – Japanese Tea Garden – 11 am *
- 11:00 am – Landmark Victorians Of Alamo Square
- 1:00 pm – Japanese Tea Garden*
*The tour is free, but a $6 (SF Resident) / $9 (Non-Resident) Admission to garden required except on the Monday and Wednesday 9:30 morning tour.