The Best Full Day Tours - San Francisco Day by Day - page 12

2 ★ Red & White Fleet Bay
Cruise. If you were unable to pre-
reserve Alcatraz tickets, take a
1-hour bay cruise with audio narra-
tion. You'll travel under the Golden
Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz.
@ 1 hr. Pier 43 1 ⁄ 2. y 415/673-2900.
www.redandwhite.com. Ferry ride
& audio tour: $20, $16 seniors 62+
& kids 12-18, $12 kids 5-11, kids
under 5 free. Check the website
for discount fares. Transport: see
bullet 1 .

Rembrandt, among others, and
international tapestries, prints, and
drawings. It boasts one of the world's
best collections of Rodin's sculptures,
including an original cast of The
Thinker. @ 1 hr. Clement St. & 34th
Ave. y 415/863-3330. www.thinker.
org. Admission $15, $13 seniors 65+,
$12 youths 12-17, $3 kids 5-11;
free to all every Tues. Tues-Sun
9:30am-5pm. Transport: see bullet 4 .
6 Cable Car Museum and
Powerhouse. When British-born
engineer Andrew Hallidie saw a
horse and its heavy carriage fall
backward down a steep San Fran-
cisco hill, he vowed to create a
mechanical transportation device
for the city. By 1873 the first cable
car traversed Clay Street. Cable cars
have no engines; instead, they are
attached to an electrically powered
cable that runs at a constant 9 1 ⁄ 2 -mph
(15kph) rate through an under-
ground rail. When it's time to stop,
the car's conductor, or “gripper,”
pulls a lever to release the car's grip
on the cable. Inside this free, fasci-
nating museum, you'll see the
cables that carry the cars. Once run-
ning over 600 cars, the system
today operates only three lines.
@ 20 minutes. 1201 Mason St. (at
Washington St.) y 415/474-1887.

3 For a light lunch, the Fisher-
man's Wharf seafood counters sell
fresh Dungeness crab from Novem-
ber to May. $ ( Note: If you don't see
crates of live crabs, the crab is
frozen and precooked.) For a sit-
down meal with a view, try the
Franciscan (p 105) at Pier 43 1 ⁄ 2 .
y 415/362-7733. $$$

4 ★ Lincoln Park. This lovely park
in the northwest corner of San Fran-
cisco boasts expansive lawns, euca-
lyptus trees, an 18-hole golf course,
and breathtaking views. Walk north to
the Land's End trailhead for a closer
look at the Marin Headlands and west-
ern profile of the Golden Gate Bridge.
@ 30 min.; best in the afternoon,
when fog has burned off & the sun
turns the Marin hills a golden color.
Clement Ave. & 33rd Ave. Powell-Hyde
Cable Car to Geary St., transfer to
bus 38 to Geary Blvd. & 33rd Ave.;
then walk or take bus 18 to Legion of
Honor.
5 ★★★ California Palace of
the Legion of Honor. Adding
to Lincoln Park's splendor is this neo-
classical memorial to California's
soldiers lost in World War I, which
opened on Armistice Day in 1924.
An exact replica of the Legion of
Honor Palace in Paris, it houses a fine
collection of 4,000 years of art, with
European paintings by Monet and

Grab a bite of fresh dungeness crab at
the Fisherman's Wharf.