Overall, most San Francisco neighborhoods are not dangerous. But if you want to be sure you’re sticking to the safest areas for tourists, Fisherman’s Wharf and Chinatown have low crime rates and are fun to visit too.

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Are there Pedestrian Hours for the Bridge? Yes. Pedestrians are allowed to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge according the following schedule: –During Standard Time (usually later November to early March), the bridge is open to pedestrians daily from 5am-6:30pm.

If you are a first-time visitor and only staying for a few days, one of the best places to stay in San Francisco for you is Fisherman’s Wharf. This busy district is along the waterfront where you will find the ferries to Alcatraz, Pier 39, and where many of our SF Bay tours leave.

While most major cities in the United States offer some kind of public transit system, San Francisco has hands down one of the best! An intricate network of trains, buses, street cars, bikes and those world-famous cable cars will get you almost anywhere you want to go in the Bay Area.

Most visitors find three days in San Francisco is a good amount of time to get a solid introduction to the city. However, if you have a week it’s highly recommended you take a few San Francisco day trips. For example, to the Wine Country or vibrant cities like Oakland and Berkeley, which are across the Bay.

Oakland is the most dangerous city in California. According to a recent FBI crime report, Oakland had over 7,000 violent crimes within a year with almost 80 of those being murders. Oakland has the highest murder rate per capita in California.

Still a month out from the end of 2020, San Francisco has already seen more deadly violence so far this year than in all of 2019. Newly released data from the San Francisco Police Department shows there had been 45 killings reported as of Tuesday, compared to the 41 homicides recorded in the entirety of 2019.