SF City Guides
SF’s New $4.1 Million Treehouse-Inspired Playground
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Families in San Francisco’s Sunset District have a brand new playground to check out with the reopening of Stern Grove Playground. Set among the grove’s tall trees just off Sloat Boulevard, the renovated play space has been redesigned with a woodland theme. The new features include tree-like towers, climbing nets, log more...
SF’s 113-Year-Old Clay Theater to Return After 4 Year Closure
Local Icons, Reopening, San Francisco The historic Clay Theater at 2261 Fillmore Street is coming back to life. Closed since 2020, the 113-year-old single-screen cinema will be restored with 200 seats, upgraded sound and projection, and a refreshed lobby. Plans filed this week call for over 500 screenings a year, plus space for talks, community more...
Big Sur’s Scenic Waterfall Trail Finally Reopens
Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Reopening, Road Trip One of Big Sur’s most beloved hikes is finally back. California State Parks just reopened the Pfeiffer Falls Trail in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park after more than a year-long closure caused by storm damage. The short but scenic .75-mile trail winds through a shady redwood canyon and ends at a more...
Berkeley’s New $1.99 Burger Joint
Brand New, East Bay, Eat & Drink Campus Burgers, the South Bay’s ultra-cheap smash burger spot, just opened a new location near UC Berkeley and it is already drawing huge crowds. The menu is built for student budgets: $1.99 hamburgers, $2.99 cheeseburgers, and $4.99 double cheeseburgers, plus fries, shakes, and sodas. This is the third Campus Burgers, joining more...
Driverless Waymo Rides Coming to SFO
Brand New, Transportation, Travel Waymo can now operate at San Francisco International Airport, a major step for the autonomous ride-hailing company. The permit allows the company to roll out service in three phases. First, Waymo will test vehicles around the airport with a human driver. Then it can test fully autonomous rides with Waymo more...
SF’s “Flower Piano” Festival is Back September 12-21
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, Sponsored Flower Piano is back! Find hidden pianos in SF’s Botanical Garden. Flower Piano is set to return to the Botanical Garden this September 2025 for 10 days—September 12-21, with a special opening night event on Friday, September 12. In the final days of summer and celebrating its 10th anniversary, Flower Piano will more...
Bay Area’s Best Pumpkin Patches for 2025
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...
SF’s 21st Amendment Brewery Closing After 25 Years
Bars, Eat & Drink, Goodbye, San Francisco Sad news for Bay Area beer lovers: SF-born 21st Amendment Brewery is shutting down. Both the South Beach taproom and the San Leandro brewery will close their doors on November 4, 2025. 21st Amendment helped kick off SF’s craft beer scene back in 2000, opening just as Pac Bell Park (now more...
SF’s Favorite Outdoor Movie Night “Sundown Cinema” Returns
Free Movie Screenings, Get Out: Events, Outdoorsy, Reopening, San Francisco After a brief hiatus, San Francisco’s beloved free outdoor movie series is back! Sundown Cinema, a cherished tradition since 2003, is returning this fall with two special screenings in the city’s favorite parks. The series had been paused this year due to financial challenges, leaving many locals disappointed. But thankfully, The more...
Daredevils Take on Epic 1,600-Foot Highline at Golden Gate Bridge
Outdoorsy, San Francisco, Wow Over the weekend of September 5–7, 2025, a daring crew of highliners took on a 1,600-foot slackline suspended 75 feet above Kirby Cove, just west of the Golden Gate Bridge. This marked the longest coastal slackline in North America and only the second time it had been set up at more...
SF’s Awesome Historic Boat Tram is Free This Summer (2025)
Downtown San Francisco, Freebies, San Francisco, Transportation Muni’s most charming rides are back for summer, and this year they’re free all the way from Castro to Fisherman’s Wharf. As part of the Summer Vintage Streetcar Service, you can ride one of Muni’s historic streetcars every Friday and Saturday through October 13, 2025. Each weekend, the vintage cars rotate more...
Brand New Waterfront Park Coming to Treasure Island (Sept. 13)
Brand New, New Parks, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco San Francisco is about to get a brand new waterfront park with jaw-dropping views you won’t find anywhere else in the city. Cityside Park, planned as a sprawling 24-acre green space, officially opens on Saturday, September 13, 2025, with an Opening Celebration featuring food trucks, live music, and more. For now, more...
Fisherman’s Wharf is Getting a $10 Million Makeover
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Good News, San Francisco Imagine a bright, open waterfront space at the heart of San Francisco’s most visited neighborhood. The new 5,000-square-foot plaza at Fisherman’s Wharf will feature sweeping, wave-shaped seating, picnic tables, and benches that look out over the colorful fleet of Monterey fishing boats in the inner lagoon. String lights will hang more...
Where to Go Apple Picking: Bay Area + Northern California Guide (2025)
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Fall, Outdoorsy, Road Trip Want fresh apples? It doesn’t get any fresher than straight from the tree. There are lots of local farms near San Francisco where you can pick your own apples. Peak apple-picking season near the Bay Area is typically September and October. But don’t wait – many people who wait until later more...
Check Out SF’s Wild New “Banana” Bench at Union Square
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Downtown San Francisco, Fun & Games Union Square’s cable car turnaround just got a little more… a-peeling. The second of four rotating public art installations has landed, and it’s a bright yellow banana sculpture that doubles as a bench. Curb-A-Peel officially debuted Friday, August 29, 2025 at the Cable Car Turnaround Arts, right at Powell & more...
