Salesforce Park - The City Above the Street

Salesforce Park - The City Above the Street

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A stop on San Francisco, District by District, a free self-guided tour.

Finish your walk through the city's history above the street. Salesforce Park is a rooftop garden more than a quarter mile long, on top of the Salesforce Transit Center, which opened in 2018 on the site of the old Transbay Terminal. That 1939 terminal was built for electric trains crossing the new Bay Bridge and later served buses for decades.

The gardens are planted with species from different parts of the world, and a fountain along the walkway shoots jets of water as buses move below. Around you rise the towers of the newest city, including the 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, completed in 2018 and the tallest building in San Francisco.

Reach the park by elevator or escalator from the street, and check current hours. From here the Ferry Building, where this tour began, is about a 10-minute walk along Mission Street.

More on Wikipedia: Salesforce Transit Center · Salesforce Tower · San Francisco Transbay Terminal

Stops on this tour

  1. Ferry Building and the Embarcadero - Where the City Met the World
  2. Financial District and Jackson Square - Gold Rush on the Old Shoreline
  3. Chinatown - The Neighborhood That Refused to Move
  4. North Beach and Telegraph Hill - Little Italy and the Beats
  5. Fisherman's Wharf - Italian Boats and Old Ships
  6. Nob Hill and Russian Hill - Cable Cars, Mansions and the Great Fire
  7. The Presidio - Two Centuries Guarding the Golden Gate
  8. Japantown and the Fillmore - Two Communities, One Neighborhood
  9. Haight-Ashbury - From Victorian Suburb to Summer of Love
  10. Golden Gate Park - Sand Dunes Turned Into a Park
  11. The Castro - A Neighborhood That Became a Movement
  12. The Mission - Where San Francisco Began
  13. Civic Center - Domes, Charters and Protest
  14. South of Market - From Rincon Hill to the Tech Boom