Continue on Montgomery St past the Disney Family Museum.To see it, enter Pet Cemetery into the navigation, go there and then enter Fort Point. BUT - the route you get is unlikely to pass the charming Presidio Pet Cemetery on McDowell Avenue. To use mobile navigation for this part of the drive, the obvious thing to do is set it to Fort Point. It would take too long to stop there while following the 49-Mile Drive, but it's worth a visit on another day. In one of the buildings you pass, you'll see the Walt Disney Family Museum, which tells the story of Walt Disney's life.Follow the curve left onto Montgomery St.Follow Lincoln until you get to a grassy area with a row of two-story brick buildings along one side.Past Lucasfilm, turn right onto Lincoln Blvd.Don't let the security guard worry you - just drive up and say you want to see Yoda. Visitors can't go inside the buildings, but you can stop to see the Yoda statue and walk on the grounds. The headquarters of George Lucas' Lucasfilm and the Industrial Light and Magic company are on the right in the Letterman Center.Turn right onto Letterman Dr, ignoring signs that say the 49-Mile Drive goes straight ahead.Turn right onto Lombard St and into the Presidio, a former military post that is as old as the city itself.From Baker St in front of the Palace of Fine Arts, go south (away from the bay).The 49-Mile Drive signs take a different route, but signs might be missing and this one is easier: Point your mobile navigation to the Disney Family Museum at 104 Montgomery St. It's all so distracting that you won't have time to see much.īetween the walking and the skipped (but uninteresting) parts, you'll turn the 49-Mile Drive into something more like 20 miles. If you try to drive it, you'll have to navigate one-way streets, dodge double-parked cars and handle traffic congestion. It's better to see some parts of the 49-Mile Drive on foot than in an automobile. You'll skip the boring parts, so you have more time for the best ones. And it skips the most interesting part of North Beach entirely.įollow the route outlined here starting at Bay and Van Ness or check our Google map. It misses many interesting sights by just a block or two. Their suggested route looks like it was designed for easy driving, and not for seeing all you can. Just a note: If you happen to use Google's 49-mile Drive map, beware. You can also use the Google map to plot your course or follow the written directions on each page of this guide. You can see the whole route on the map at the end of this guide. The bottom line: You need a good map or mobile navigator to enjoy the 49-Mile Drive without frustration. In fact, you can find plenty of online reviews from people who were frustrated looking for them. A map is your only hope.Įven if you drive in the "correct" direction, signs may be missing. They seem to think you should only do the drive counterclockwise. If you want to go in the opposite direction, forget the signs. The City of San Francisco makes it worse, too. People routinely steal the signs, which causes a lot of confusion if the one that's missing is the one you need. Unfortunately, that seagull is just a little too cute. If you want to "do" the 49-Mile Drive, you'll follow signs that look like the one above. If you start at Bay and Van Ness instead, make a normal number of photo stops and take an hour for lunch, it will take most of a day. We tested the route on a holiday when traffic was light and didn't stop anywhere for more than a minute or two.
It takes about 4 hours of driving to cover the route, starting in Union Square and ending at City Hall.
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