Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
1
Legion of Honor
MUSEUM
Larger-than-life sculptor's model 'Big Alma' de Bretteville Spreckels donated her fortune
to build this tribute to Californians killed in France in WWI. Featured artworks range from
Monet water lilies to John Cage soundscapes, Iraqi ivories to R Crumb comics - part of the
Legion's Achenbach collection of 90,000 modern graphic artworks.
(
415-750-3600;
ht-
tp://legionofhonor.famsf.org
;
100 34th Ave; adult/child $10/6, discount with Muni ticket $2, 1st Tue of month free;
9:30am-5:15pm Tue-Sun;
;
1, 18, 38)
2
Ocean Beach
Golden Gate Park ends in this blustery beach, too chilly for bikini-clad clambakes but ideal
for wetsuited pro surfers braving riptides (casual swimmers beware). Bonfires are permit-
ted in artist-designed fire-pits only; no alcohol allowed. At the beach's south end, beach-
combers may spot sand-dollars and a 19th-century shipwreck. Stick to paths in fragile
dunes, where skittish snowy plover shorebirds shelter.
(
BEACH
415-561-4323;
www.parksconservancy.org
;
Great Hwy;
sunrise-sunset;
5, 18, 31,
N)
3
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Sniff your way around the world inside this 70-acre garden, where there's always
something blooming. The Garden of Fragrance is designed for the visually impaired, and
the California native plant section explodes with color when native wildflowers bloom,
right off the redwood trail. Free tours take place daily; for details, stop by the bookstore in-
side the entrance.
(Strybing Arboretum;
GARDEN
415-661-1316;
www.strybing.org
;
1199 9th Ave; adult/child $7/5, 2nd
Tue of month free;
9am-6pm Apr-Oct, to 5pm Nov-Mar, bookstore 10am-4pm;
;
6, 43, 44, 71,
N)
