Things to Do in San Fran With Baby

There are so many great things to do in San Francisco with kids including lots of can't miss things just exterior of the city.

Table of Contents

What To Exercise Exterior The City
- Muir Woods
- Point Reyes National Seashore
What Do In The City
- Aureate Gate Bridge
- Bay Area Discovery Museum
- Lands Finish
- Pier 39
- Golden Gate Park
- San Francisco Zoo
- Children's Creativity Museum
- Lombard Street
- China Town
- Mission Dolores Park
- Ride The Cable Car
- California Academy of Sciences
- The Escape Game
- CityPASS
Where To Stay
- Hotel: Westin St. Francis in Wedlock Square
- RV Park: San Francisco RV Park
- Transportation in San Francisco
Where To Eat
- Pizzeria Delfina
- Trisha's Mini Donuts
- Bi-Rite Ice Cream
- Beer – Pliny The Elder
1 Week Itinerary

What To Do Outside The City

Aye I am going to start the post off with a place that is exterior of the city. It is by far our favorite matter we did while we were there and we would highly recommend you brand the time to visit.

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Muir Wood

Y'all walk through these magical wood filled with gigantic Redwoods and y'all can just feel and sense the power of Mother Nature and how cute she is. Kids of all ages volition love walking amongst these beautiful giants.

It was so interesting that this haven is but a short drive from the hustle and bustle of the city. When you are there y'all feel like you are hundreds of miles away from it all!

When To Visit: Any fourth dimension of year and any fourth dimension of day. We went correct before they were going to close and it was really cool to meet the sun setting through the trees. Merely I doubtfulness you could choice a bad fourth dimension of day to get.

How To Visit: You have to plan a fiddling alee for this trip since you take to buy your parking spots online before you show upwardly. We were in that location in the offseason so we could go a time slot for subsequently the same day. Just we have heard during high season (summertime) or weekends y'all may need to get your time slot days in advance.

Or don't worry well-nigh parking and instead take a tour bus from downtown San Francisco that volition have care of the driving for you!

Indicate Reyes National Seashore

Another option for the nature lover or if you are looking to get out of the city. Take annotation, with traffic and the distance this could exist an all day consequence to visit. But if you are looking to get away from the hustle and bustle, this is your escape.

The drive out is beautiful and once you are there the views of the coastline forth the Pacific Ocean are pretty epic. Look alee and plan to visit on a solar day that the lighthouse is open up. They also take a visitor center with a small museums and rangers on staff to help brand recommendations on what you should exercise while there (based on weather and what is open up and airtight).

Check out the Point Reyes Station Nutrient and Farm Bout with Lunch to get a delicious sampling of local foods too as a behind-the-scenes look at these farms and businesses.

When To Visit: The Visitor Center closes at 5pm on some days and then be sure to bank check the hours as you will want to cease to go a map and look around the museum there. Too check on what days the lighthouse is open and then you can make the walk down!

How To Visit: Exist aware that this drive could take you over an hour to get to the Company Eye then some other 30+ minutes to bulldoze to the lighthouse of other destination in the park. You as well want to take rush hour into consideration – and but known there is ever traffic in San Francisco.

What Do In The Metropolis

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Gold Gate Bridge

Of class when you visit San Francisco you volition desire to check out the Aureate Gate Bridge! We didn't stop (parking is pretty much incommunicable down there) only instead drove across the bridge to get to the Bay Area Children's Museum to see a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. We and then headed out to Muir Woods.

It is an iconic place and well worth a visit. If you lot want to see it from the water, exist sure to bank check out the Golden Gate Bay Cruise! Or bound in a GoCar for a GPS-guided tour!

When To Visit: Whatsoever time of twelvemonth – pretty much ever busy

How To Visit: If you drive be prepared for a steep price – just you only have to pay it i way and so that is good!

Bay Surface area Discovery Museum

Your kids will dearest the Bay Area Discovery Museum and it is in a keen location. You are right by the Gold Gate Bridge – you tin can come across information technology while you are exploring the museum. You tin also walk over in the parking lot and go some fun pictures with the museum in the background.

They too had lots of slap-up activities for the kids including indoor and outdoor options. It was a little fleck on the younger side (our eleven year old was a little too old only he notwithstanding found things to practice).

When To Visit: Check hours – they normally close at 5pm and also check for events going on and if you can go during an consequence at that place volition exist more than people, but also more to practise.

How To Visit: Using your Reciprocal Museum membership to get in at a discount! Also note they have a really beautiful children's restaurant on site.

Lands End

Lands Terminate is a National Monument that is part of the San Francisco National Parks department. Information technology is a beautiful location on the h2o that use to exist a famous bathhouse. The bathhouse is no longer there, but yous can walk on the grounds and walk through some of the ruins.

It is a cute area and another way to become a little but outside of the metropolis and all the fun and craziness there. They also have a actually cute gift shop.

When To Visit: A sunny day would be great. Only nosotros went when it was clouded and information technology was still beautiful.

How To Visit: There is a parking lot on site and so you should be able to become a spot in the parking lot and so get out to walk around.

Pier 39

Hither is an activity that is in the eye of city life! An always busy expanse that is filled with shops and entertainment! It has a really cool vibe and look and feel to the expanse and some fun shops and restaurants you will desire to check out.

We walked through the Pier area and checked out a few shops before sitting downwardly to consume . . . we stupidly put our haversack on an open seat at our table and someone walked by and stole information technology! Be aware down here as information technology is an area known for things similar this to happen.

You can also get to a look out over the San Francisco Bay where y'all tin come across Alcatraz or if you lot planned ahead (I am so not good at planning ahead) y'all can take a boat ride out to tour Alcatraz! I am really disappointed that nosotros missed it. Next time!

Exist sure to look for the Sea Lions sunbathing and if you want you can check out the Aquarium On The Bay. And if you want to keep exploring head over to Fisherman Wharf for more than restaurants and stores.

When To Visit: Whenever you want to.

How To Visit: At that place are parking lots and structures all around downtown, but they are expensive. You could have a autobus, the cable cars, or an Uber and you will most likely be better off.

Aureate Gate Park

If you are looking to go out in nature without having to get out the city and so check out Gilded Gate Park. In the park yous will find Stow Lake, Ocean Beach and the Japanese Tea Garden to name a few. The park is huge!!

We didn't get to explore all of those places just we did spend a few hours at the Koret Playground and the kids loved information technology! They had a slide that you needed a cardboard box to sit on then you could slide down it! So San Francisco and and so cool!

Make sure to grab a GoCar and experience this GPS-guided tour of the city'southward parks and beaches.

San Francisco Zoo

The San Francisco Zoo is a slap-up zoo that is filled with animals that you lot and your kids will enjoy seeing. They also have a bang-up park for the kids to play at.

You could spend a whole day here looking at the animals and playing at the park. With a quick intermission to grab a seize with teeth to eat.

When To Visit: The animals are normally more than agile when it is cooler outside.

How To Visit: There is a large parking lot and so you tin can park right by the Zoo and walk in.

Children's Creativity Museum

Located in downtown is this crawly Children's museum! They accept so many different activities to do with the kids. We could have stayed all day. Then once you are done you can head exterior to play at the park.

This isn't a children's museum filled with play grocery stores and the similar, but instead they take dirt blitheness you tin can do (The kids tin make their own stop motion movie), karaoke where the kids can dress up and exist recorded with a green screen setup behind them!

When To Visit: Whenever they are open up.

How To Visit: Yous will accept to find somewhere to park. There are parking garages around, only be prepared that you may have to walk a little ways.

Lombard Street

Have a walk to check out this cool zig zagging street known as the crookedest street! You tin can drive down it only being able to walk information technology meant we could have it slow and take in the views. Plus you go to walk upward some of the steep streets that San Francisco is known for.

When To Visit: During daylight.

How To Visit: Best to walk to information technology – at that place is some street parking around there. Simply be prepared for the steep incline! If y'all have immature ones or a larger group, cheque out the electric Tuk Tuk City Tour!

Cathay Boondocks

This was quite the experience! You literally felt like you could exist in China. In that location was so much activity and and then many people. With fish and food just hanging from everywhere. The vibe was and so energetic.

Then we found the fortune cookie making store so we walked downward an alley and there it was. Women sitting making fortune cookies past manus. It was cool to watch and see.

When To Visit: During the day.

How To Visit: Park exterior of Chinatown and walk through the expanse. Follow an expert and explore the history and culture with a Walking Food Tour!

Mission Dolores Park

Check out a park right in the middle of San Francisco. At that place are large grassy areas to hang out or y'all can caput to the super kid friendly playground to permit the kids play. All while you take in the views of the urban center around you. The Park is besides within walking distance to Pizzeria Delfina and Bi-Right Ice Foam both recommended to u.s. past locals – more on these below.

When To Visit: During the day.

How To Visit: You lot can drive and park forth the street but exist aware that windows get broken out all the time – at that place is shattered glass lining the grass by the road . . . We did go this route and parked our car here and walked over to the park for an hour or so and everything was OK. Only something to continue in listen. Yous tin also rent a GoCar and have a GPS-guided bout of the city'due south parks and beaches.

Ride The Cablevision Machine

We didn't fifty-fifty end up doing this because it was likewise confusing to figure out the cost and where to get it and and then there was a line to get on. I wish we would have done it. My recommendation would be to ask at the hotel and have them give you directions to the best identify to choice it upward. If I am understanding it correctly y'all would accept about a 1 mile walk from the Westin to the Fiscal district and and then you could pick upward the California line in that location.

California University of Sciences

Nosotros besides heard great things about the California University of Sciences which is too a natural history museum (located in Golden Gate Park) if your kids are into Science be sure to check it out! You may also desire to await into the Randall Museum of Science, Nature and the Arts. Or if art is more than their thing bank check out the De Young Museum.

It'due south fun to catch views of the California Academy of Sciences edifice when exploring San Francisco. The grass covered roof is unique!

The Escape Game

The Escape Game is always a great family activity. We took our coiffure to the one in Chicago and had an awesome time!

You go locked in a room and piece of work together to solve clues and riddles to assist yous escape. The staff watches you through video and provides hints through a TV screen to help you out if you become stuck. The rooms all have different themes, so yous can go back more than than once and have a totally different adventure.

It is really fun to spotter the kids work through clues and piece of work every bit a squad to Escape together!

Check out the Escape Game San Francisco!

There really is no shortage of things to do in San Francisco! Here are a few other places you may want to check out:

Palace of Fine Arts

AT&T Park for a Major League Baseball Game

Fisherman's Wharf

Or bank check out some of the neighborhoods like Telegraph Hill, Twin Peaks, North Beach or the Mission District.

You can also bank check out the less visited Bay Bridge and venture over to the Berkley area to see what is going on in that location. Take notation nosotros tried to do this and the traffic was so bad we turned effectually.

CityPASS

If y'all want to practice several activities in San Francisco , you will want to check out CityPASS San Francisco! You lot can choose to do the top five activities in San Francisco or pick iii of the major attractions and become one low ticket price. Check out the list of activities you lot can choose from here!

Get your San Francisco CityPASS here!

If yous are into Disney you may want to cheque out the Walt Disney Family Museum.

Where To Stay

San Francisco has a large diversity of hotels and accommodations to cull from. There are hip bazaar hotels in San Francisco, chain hotels, VRBO options, RV parks, and more! Here are a few we recommend:

Hotel: Westin St. Francis in Union Foursquare

This hotel offers a keen location in a safe neighborhood and is perfect for families! They also have 3 restaurants and 1 coffee shop on site and you are right by Union Square. Not to mention the amazing views!

If you are traveling with a family they have a variety of different room options bachelor including suites, free cribs and roll away bed options. Plus they advertise every bit being kid and family unit friendly.

Planning on visiting San Francisco around the holidays? This is the perfect hotel for you with lots of bully holiday activities!

Where it is located:

RV Park: San Francisco RV Park

Information technology is basically a parking lot with RV's parked side by side to each other. Only it has full hookups and you are correct on the water. There is as well a bus stop downwards the street that will have yous to the train station that takes you to the bus station so that you tin get into downtown without having to bulldoze.

Where information technology is located:

If yous want to stay outside the city, Santa Cruz Redwoods RV Resort in Felton, CA is situated on the San Lorenzo River near Henry Cowell Redwoods Country Park. It is a piffling over an hour (south) from San Francisco. An hour and a half the other direction is Casini Ranch Family unit Campground in Duncans Mills, CA. It sits on the Russian River and is minutes from the declension.

At that place are likewise corking San Francisco and Bay Area glamping options!

Transportation in San Francisco

Check out this peachy mail service from our friends at Trips With Tykes on how to get around San Francisco: Complete Guide on Transit in San Francisco

Where To Eat

Pizzeria Delfina

A great local pizza place that has all varieties of pizza and the prices are skilful too. Nosotros didn't sit down to eat only instead took information technology to become and ate at Mission Dolores park.

Trisha'south Mini Donuts

For a delicious bucket of donuts stop hither while visiting Pier 39. They were yummy!!

Bi-Rite Ice Foam

You tin can buy these in the grocery store or get to their water ice foam shop and get this delicious water ice cream in a multifariousness of fun flavors!

Beer – Pliny The Elder

My husbands all time favorite beer! They brew this upwards in Russian River and sell it at Whole Foods and a few other stores in San Francisco – but you lot have to know when it is being stocked because it is all sold out inside hours! You tin likewise find a few restaurants that have it on tap. My husband firmly believes it is worth all the effort to find it!

1 Week Itinerary

**Please annotation this itinerary is best if you have a car while you are there. At that place are Uber options, but they don't accept motorcar seats for kids. You could practice a lot of walking to practise the city center activities but to go to other locations a car is going to be easiest. San Fransisco does have public transportation so you could look into that.

Twenty-four hours 1:

Visit ChinaTown, Pier 39 and Lombard Street. You could practice this walking from the hotel – only note it is a 5 mile walk and in that location are steep inclines:

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Day 2:

A solar day away from the metropolis. Take your automobile and drive to both Muir Woods and Point Reyes National Seashore. Plan to exit early and exist gone all twenty-four hours and to run into some traffic going and coming back (particularly if during blitz hour). ** Yous could be in the car for iii-iv hours for this day trip.

If you don't accept a car or don't want to drive and so skip Point Reyes National Seashore and opt for the:Muir Forest Tour Of California Coastal Redwoods through Expedia

Information to know about the motorbus bout through Expedia (accept note of car seat requirements):

Day 3:

Take a lazy forenoon at the hotel and explore Union Square earlier heading to the Children's Creativity Museum (observe a parking garage by the museum). And so head over to Mission Delores Park (parking on the street) to walk and become Pizza to go and hang out at the park and playground before finishing the night with Bi-Rite Water ice Cream.

24-hour interval 4:

Visit the San Francisco Zoo (parking at the zoo). This tin can be an all day event – especially if yous leave plenty of time for the kids to play at the park.

Twenty-four hours five:

You lot need a break right? Don't plan anything for this 24-hour interval and instead just wing information technology or relax at your hotel and don't feel guilty about it!

Day 6:

Head over to Lands End then up to the Gilded Gate Bridge and and so over the Discovery Bay Children'southward Museum. (Parking at Lands Terminate should exist fine – you may not be able to finish at the Golden Gate Bridge simply yous will drive over it and can park at the Children's Museum and get peachy pictures there – be prepared for the one fashion Golden Gate Bridge Toll).

Solar day 7:

Time to head home.

Before adventuring with your family to San Francisco exist certain to read up on the gilded blitz and how so many people around the U.s.a. rushed to San Francisco hoping to become rich! And cheque out this post on ride sharing tips for families with Lyft and Uber.

If y'all are planning to come to San Francisco yous may want to consider a Pacific Declension Highway Road Trip or a Northern California trip! Or at to the lowest degree check out Large Sur and perhaps jump over to Lake Tahoe for a weekend. At that place are so many corking things to practice in California!