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Former professional baseball player Barry Bonds’ childhood home is on Lyndhurst Avenue in San Carlos, California.

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 Fremont.

Tom Brady’s childhood home was on Portola Drive in San Mateo, California.

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.

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 it crosses San Mateo Creek.

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 Drive in Hillsborough Oaksbridge. The 1925 whitewashed brick home, built in the style of a French chateau, was referred to locally as the Crosby Estate and remained Bing Crosby’s main home until his death in 1977. The home was the setting for several Minute Maid orange juice commercials featuring the Crosby family in the 1960s and 70s.

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.

San Francisco International Airport (or SFO) is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco.

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 is only available between: Terminal 1: Boarding Area C, Gates C2 through C11 and Terminal 2: Boarding Area D, Gates D1 through D18. International Terminal: Boarding Area G, Gates G1 through G14 and Terminal 3: Boarding Areas E and F, Gates E1 to E13 and F1 to F22.

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.

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 accessible to anyone, and will not require a boarding pass or ticket for access.

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 El Camino Real. After fueling, head back along San Bruno Avenue to SFO and follow the Rental Car Return signs. Keep your fuel receipt to show the rental clerk. If you’re on I-280, taking the exit for San Bruno Avenue towards SFO leads to the same intersection with El Camino Real where the Shell and 76 gas stations are.

The Wind Harp is located on the Point San Bruno knoll at the center of the Genentech campus on the east side of South San Francisco, formerly the Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Industrial Park. The prominent 92-foot-tall steel sculpture is open to the public and accessed on foot by a short pathway next to Building 28 on DNA Way. Visit on windy days and the aeolian harp’s hum can be heard clearly. The wind harp was created in 1967 by Aristides Demetrios and his then wife, Lucia, daughter of famed industrial designer Charles Eames. Originally called the Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Tower, it was commissioned as a centerpiece for its namesake business park. It was acquired by the City of South San Francisco in 1996 and rededicated in 1997.

YouTube’s headquarters are located at 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California. The Google-owned video-sharing platform moved into the offices in 2008. They were the former corporate headquarters of The Gap, Inc.

The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred near the intersection of Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood of San Bruno, California. On the evening on September 9th, 2010, an underground natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded and fire quickly engulfed nearby houses. Eight people died and 38 houses were destroyed.

Yes, South San Francisco is a city separate and distinct from the city of San Francisco, and the cities don’t even border one another. Sometimes colloquially called South City, South San Francisco is located in San Mateo County, south of Daly City and Brisbane, and north of San Bruno.

Sign Hill Park has several trails leading to the big concrete letters forming the SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THE INDUSTRIAL CITY hillside sign. The Ridge Trail runs above the sign along the crest of Sign Hill from Ridgeview Court (where there is a small parking lot) to Spruce Avenue. At the water tank, you can descend below the letters on Letters Trail which leads down to the park entrance on Poplar Avenue. You can complete a loop back up to the Ridge Trail by continuing on either the Iris Hill Trail or the slightly longer Seubert Trail. Depending on route, the total loop is around 1.5 to 2 miles (or 2.4 to 3.2 kilometers). The hike is relatively easy but does have some steep sections so may not be suited to very small children. The trail loop can also be started from the base of the hill at the Poplar Avenue entrance. From there you can also do a there-and-back hike of just the Letters Trail up to the sign without completing a full loop if preferred.

George Moscone’s grave is in the St Michael section of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, California. The serving Mayor of San Francisco was shot and killed at San Francisco City Hall on November 27th, 1978, aged 49, by former city supervisor Dan White.

The Beatles’ final live commercial concert took place on August 29th, 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, although they performed unannounced in January 1969 on the Apple Corps building rooftop in London. Former Beatle Paul McCartney returned to Candlestick in August 2014 to perform at the last ever event at the sports stadium before it was demolished for redevelopment.

Wyatt Earp, who died on January 13th, 1929, was cremated and his remains are interred in a burial plot at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California. At the time of his death, the former Old West lawman was living in Los Angeles with his Jewish wife, Josephine Marcus, and she arranged for Earp’s ashes to be buried in the Marcus family plot in Colma, near her native San Francisco. When Josephine died in 1944, her cremated remains were buried alongside those of her husband. That Wyatt Earp’s ashes were buried in Colma was not widely known for many years, but the grave’s granite marker was stolen in 1957 after a newspaper publicized the grave’s location, and the thieves also reportedly dug down in a failed attempt to locate Wyatt Earp’s ashes. The stolen headstone was found three months later in undergrowth on Crystal Springs Road in San Bruno. A new black marble headstone was erected in the late 1990s, replacing the existing marker which is now on display at the nearby Colma Historical Association museum.