The famously bohemian district where the Summer of Love began — colourful Victorians, vintage and record shops, and the vast Golden Gate Park with its museums and gardens on the doorstep. Laid-back, leafy and further from the centre, with a great park and beach beyond; the base for a mellow, local, nature-close stay.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
$280–450
typical per night in United States
The sensible middle
Typical prices for San Francisco — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is Haight-Ashbury & Golden Gate Park and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- The Mission murals & a burrito10 min taxi3.4 km
- The Palace of Fine Arts11 min taxi3.7 km
- Ride a cable car12 min taxi4.1 km
- Lombard Street13 min taxi4.4 km
- Chinatown13 min taxi4.4 km
- Fisherman's Wharf & Pier 3916 min taxi5.4 km
- The Golden Gate Bridge19 min taxi6.2 km
- Alcatraz20 min taxi6.7 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 5.Golden Gate Park — A vast green rectangle stretching to the ocean — bigger than New York's Central Park — with the de Young art museum, the California Academy of Sciences, a Japanese Tea Garden, botanical gardens, lakes, bison and windmills. A glorious day of museums and gardens; rent a bike, and it's car-free on Sundays.
- 6.The Painted Ladies & Alamo Square — The 'Postcard Row' of pastel Victorian houses at Alamo Square, framed against the modern downtown skyline — the classic San Francisco photo (and the Full House opening credits). Lounge on the grassy square with the city laid out beyond, and admire the ornate 'Painted Ladies'; lovely at golden hour.
- 13.Haight-Ashbury — The corner where the Summer of Love bloomed in 1967 — still colourful and countercultural, with tie-dye and vintage stores, record shops, murals and old Victorians (including the Grateful Dead's house). A fun, nostalgic wander through hippie history; browse the shops, and it leads straight into Golden Gate Park.
When are you staying?
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to Haight-Ashbury & Golden Gate Park; flights via Google Flights.