Hidden Gardens in the City

San Francisco is not just a bustling metropolitan city situated close to the ocean and the mountains, it also has secret gardens hidden around it! Check out the map below detailing locations of 17 little-known hidden gardens and explore if you can one of these days.

1. Gardens of Alcatraz

2. Fay Park and Garden behind Fay-Berrigan house on Russian Hill – yes, it’s public!

3. Filbert Steps and Grace Marchant Gardens on Napier Lane

4. Michelangelo Playground on Russian Hill

5. Havens Street on Union & Leavenworth
6. Transamerica Redwood Park on 600 Montgomery St

7. Empire Park at 648 Commercial St

8. 343 Sansome Rooftop Deck

9. Beale St Plaza

10. Crocker Galleria Roof Terrace at 50 Post St

11. 100 1st St Sun Terrace at 100 First Plaza

12. Tenderloin National Forest at 501 Ellis

13. The Westfield’s Sky Terrace on the 9th Floor of the Westfield Shopping Centre

14. Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden at 1690 John F Kennedy Dr

15. 16th Ave Tiled Steps on 16th Avenue

16. Dogpatch-Miller Memorial Garden on Brewster & Rutledge

17. Baden and Joost St Mini Park at 248 Joost Ave