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What is worth pointing out

Corrections, above everything. A bus line is renumbered, a cable car rule changes, a trail closes, a museum rearranges its galleries. If you have just been and something here did not match, that is worth more than any amount of desk research.

Especially useful: anything about arriving and moving around, such as the airport trains, the cable car fare rules at the turntables, the Golden Gate Bridge walkways, the Alcatraz ferry and the Muir Woods reservations, which are the parts of this guide most likely to go stale.

What this is not for

It is not a booking service. This site sells nothing and books nothing, and cannot get you a room, a table, a ticket or a seat on the Alcatraz ferry; those are booked with the operators themselves.

It cannot tell you what something costs or when it opens: no price or opening time appears anywhere on this site, because the operator is the only source that is right on the day. For nonemergency city questions, call 311; for emergencies, call 911.

The streets and the coast

If a page describes a place, a street or a piece of the city's history in a way that is wrong or unfair, that matters here too, and it will be corrected. The notes on car break-ins, downtown streets, the cliffs and the surf are drawn from the police, the transit agency and the National Park Service, and are updated when their advice changes.

Photographs

Every photograph on this site is credited beside it, and every credit links to the file's own page on Wikimedia Commons, where its author, its license and its history are recorded.

Photographs are replaced when a better or more recent one of the same place turns up, and captions are corrected when they describe the frame wrongly.