Tolls are paid in the westbound direction on Dumbarton Bridge between Fremont and Menlo Park, California. This follows the convention for all the Bay Area’s state-owned bridges that traffic headed towards the San Francisco peninsula pays a toll. Read more...
The colored ponds in south San Francisco Bay are salt evaporation ponds used for the commercial extraction of salt from the bay’s seawater. In a process spanning several years, seawater is allowed to flow into shallow enclosed ponds on the shoreline. In the south bay’s sunny, breezy, climate, the water gradually evaporates, leaving behind increasingly concentrated saltwater, which is pumped Read more...
Buck’s restaurant is at Woodside Road and Cañada Road in Woodside, California, about a mile from Exit 25 of I-280 that runs between San Francisco and San Jose. The eccentric diner is a Silicon Valley mainstay with many VC deals reportedly sealed at its tables. Read more...
Tesla offers weekday guided tours of its Fremont factory to confirmed current owners of Tesla cars, and up to three guests. Tours last approximately 60 minutes and it is recommended that bookings are made some 3 to 5 weeks in advance. Bookings can be made by emailing FactoryTours@tesla.com and the registered owner’s name and car VIN will be required to Read more...
At a moderate pace, hiking to the Mission Peak summit should take around 1.5 to 2 hours, depending on the starting point. The challenging hike has an elevation gain of 2,100 feet, following either the 3.4 mile Peak Trail from Ohlone College, or the steeper 3.1 mile Hidden Valley Trail or Peak Meadow Trail which start at Stanford Avenue in Read more...
Foster City, California, was created in the 1960s on former tidal marshland near San Mateo, overlaid with an engineered landfill of sand and shell dredged from San Francisco Bay. The lands were once tidal wetlands sitting around mean sea level which were dried out in the 19th century using dikes and levees to keep out the tidal flows. The reclaimed Read more...
The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge has a total length of 7 miles (or 11.3 kilometers), making it the longest bridge in California. It carries the six-lane State Route 92 across San Francisco Bay between Foster City on the San Francisco Peninsula and the city of Hayward in the East Bay. The bridge comprises a 1.9-mile highrise orthotropic deck western span and Read more...
YouTube was originally based on the Second Floor of 71 East 3rd Avenue in San Mateo, California, before it moved to new offices in San Bruno in 2008. Read more...
The Flintstone House is located on Berryessa Way in the town of Hillsborough, California. The cartoon-like appearance of the domed house, led to it gaining the popular nickname after The Flintstones animated TV sitcom from the 1960s. The distinctive house, constructed in 1976 to a design by architect William Nicholson, is visible from the Doran Memorial Bridge on I-280 where Read more...
American singer Bing Crosby moved to Hillsborough, California, with his second wife, Kathryn, and their three children in 1964, after selling their home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. Their first home in the area was at 101 Robin Road in Hillsborough’s Carolands neighborhood, but they moved by the end of 1965 to a larger property on Jackling Drive at Armsby Read more...
The Millbrae Art & Wine Festival is held annually on the Labor Day weekend preceding the first Monday of September. The event is held between 10 am and 5 pm on the Saturday and Sunday along Broadway (one block west of El Camino Real) between Victoria and Meadow Glen Avenues in downtown Millbrae. Read more...
Before clearing security, you can walk between all terminals at San Francisco Airport or catch the airport’s AirTrain. After clearing security, access to other terminals without exiting and re-entering security is only available via walkway connectors between: Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and International Terminal “A” Gates. Terminal 2, Terminal 3, and the International Terminal “G” Gates. Read more...
San Francisco International Airport has three domestic terminals, numbered 1 through 3, and one international terminal. Terminal 1, known as Harvey Milk Terminal 1, was formerly called the South Terminal, Terminal 2 was previously the Central Terminal, and Terminal 3 was formerly the North Terminal and is exclusively used by United Airlines domestic flights. San Francisco International Airport departure terminals Read more...
The Grand Hyatt at SFO hotel is the on-airport hotel at San Francisco International Airport and connected to the terminals by the AirTrain. Off airport, the nearest hotels to SFO are Aloft San Francisco Airport and The Westin San Francisco Airport, neighboring hotels located a 2-mile (or 4-minute) drive away in Millbrae. Both offer free 24-hour airport shuttle service. Read more...
SFO has an outdoor terrace and observation deck, located post-security at the end of the International Terminal, Boarding Area G. It is open 7 am to 11:30 pm daily, and is also accessible to United passengers in Terminal 3 via a secure connecting walkway. Terminal 2 also has an observation deck which is located before security so it is publicly Read more...
From US 101 near SFO, take the San Bruno Avenue exit and follow San Bruno Avenue West in the opposite direction to that indicated by the Rental Car Return signs. The first gas stations on this road are the most expensive, but there’s cheaper fuel at the Shell and 76 gas stations in half a mile at the intersection with Read more...
