SF City Guides Memorial Day 2024 (10 Free Walking Tours)

It’s time to learn more about your city and get out and walk. San Francisco City Guides offers free walking tours just about every day.

All tours are free and open to the public, but donations are welcome.

Memorial Day Weekend Walking Tours 2025 | SF City Guides
May 23-26, 2025
FREE*, but donations are appreciated
RSVP Required

Friday, May 23

• • • 9:30 AM — Japanese Tea Garden*
    • 10:00 AM — Cityscapes and Public Places
    • 11:00 AM
      • Cable Cars: Halfway to the Stars
      • Golden Gate Park: West End – Breakers, Old Trains & Windmills!
      • Mission Murals
    • 12:00 PM
      • Architectural Gems South of Market
      • Bohemians and Other Unconventional Women
    • 1:00 PM
      • Cityscapes and Public Places
      • Japanese Tea Garden*
      • Presidio: From Military Base to National Park with Tunnel Tops
    • 1:30 PM — Gold Rush City

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Saturday, May 24

• • • 10:00 AM
      • 1840s San Francisco and the Astonishing Legacy of America’s “First Black Millionaire”
      • Coit Tower Murals
      • Ferry Building
      • North Beach
    • 10:30 AM
      • Golden Gate Park: East End – Creating San Francisco’s Great Urban Park
      • Mission Bay: Hidden Waters
    • 11:00 AM
      • 1850s San Francisco: Paris of the Pacific
      • Castro: Tales of the Village
      • Fairmont Hotel
      • Pacific Heights Mansions
    • 1:00 PM
      • Embarcadero Skyway and Art Tour
      • Japanese Tea Garden*
      • Presidio: From Military Base to National Park with Tunnel Tops
      • Scandalous Murals of Rincon Center
    • 2:00 PM
      • Boom & Bust
      • Chinatown
      • Japantown
      • Land’s End: Sutro Heights
      • Making Waves on the Waterfront
      • Telegraph Hill Stairway Hike

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Sunday, May 25

• • • 10:00 AM
      • Applause! SF’s Performing Arts Hub
      • Cow Hollow
    • 10:30 AM
      • Palace of Fine Arts/Marina
      • Russian Hill: Architecture and Culture of an Island in the City
    • 11:00 AM
      • Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco
      • Billionaires’ Row: Outer Broadway Architecture
      • Castro: Tales of the Village
      • Dogpatch West – Dutchman’s Flat to Dogpatch
      • Downtown Deco
      • Golden Gate Bridge
      • Haight-Ashbury
      • South Park: From the Gold Rush to Instagram
    • 1:00 PM
      • Japanese Tea Garden*
      • Presidio: From Military Base to National Park with Tunnel Tops
    • 2:00 PM
      • Gold Rush City
      • Nob Hill
      • Russian Hill Stairways
      • Victorian San Francisco

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Monday, May 26

• • • 9:30 AM — Japanese Tea Garden*
    • 10:30 AM — Mission Bay: Hidden Waters
    • 11:00 AM
      • Fisherman’s Wharf: A Hidden History
      • Gardens in the Sky: Salesforce Transit Center and Rooftop Park
    • 12:00 PM — Bohemians and Other Unconventional Women
    • 1:00 PM
      • Architecture Downtown
      • Japanese Tea Garden (No Tour Today)
      • Palace of Fine Arts/Marina
    • 2:00 PM — Making Waves on the Waterfront

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*Japanese Tea Garden is free admission for San Francisco residents with valid ID. Free entry for all Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9am to 10pm. Otherwise Non-residents pay $15 for M-F admission and $18 for weekend admission from February to November. Please note prices can change. Please check gggp.org for the latest updates and admission fees