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Wonders of the Crosstown Trail
The 17-mile route avoids the guidebook spots. Here are 12 must-see destinations
By Peter Hartlaub | June 5, 2021 | Updated: June 4, 2021 5:24 PM
The Crosstown Trail is a true San Francisco miracle: a world-class hiking trail created by a band of citizens, who bypassed government bureaucracy and somehow finished the project in 18 months.
As the trail celebrates its second anniversary on June 5-6, 2021, it’s arguably more popular than ever, coming out of a pandemic that acted as a catalyst for producing urban explorers. The 17-mile trail stretches diagonally across San Francisco, from the southeast edge to the northwest corner, and seems to deliberately bypass all the S.F. tourism guidebook standards and trendiest neighborhoods, proving that there’s so much left in the city to be discovered.
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S.F. once hosted a bike tour on freeways and the Bay Bridge. Let s bring it back
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It has been my dream, ever since I became a bicycle commuter.
San Francisco’s freeways, tunnels and bridges are opened up for bikes. If only for a day, the city’s main arteries become a two-wheeled utopia.
That describes the Great San Francisco Bike Adventure, an annual event from 1986 to 1995 where tens of thousands of bicyclists traveled the city on roadways usually reserved for fast-moving automobiles. Sections of Interstate 280 were opened up, along with spectacular rides across the top deck of the later-demolished Embarcadero Freeway. At one point, CalTrans allowed pedal-powered traffic on the western span of the Bay Bridge.
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