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Lombard Street. Descent begins at Hyde Street.
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 Lombard Street by Sandi-2004Leave a Comment
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 Cars, cars and more cars. by K.Knight
In the spring Lombard Street is alive with color, as the chrysanthemums provide a breathtaking carpet of colour. Leave a Comment
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 America's crookedest
street by K.Knight
To get to Lombard Street, take the Hyde Street Cable Car line, which stops on the crest. From this beautiful vantage point, you can also see down Hyde Street to Ghirardelli Square, Fisherman’s Wharf, Alcatraz and the rest of the Bay. Looking east, North Beach, Telegraph Hill, and the Bay Bridge present a breathtaking sight. Leave a Comment
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 by smschley
Residents complain about the traffic jam outside their front doors, and occasionally the city attempts to discourage drivers by posting a traffic cop near the top of the hill, but the determined can find a way around. For this reason, the city is considering closing Lombard to motor traffic.
If no one is standing guard, join the line of cars waiting to drive down the steep hill, or avoid the whole mess and walk down the steps on either side of Lombard. You take in super views of North Beach and Coit Tower whether you walk or drive -- though if you're the one behind the wheel, you'd better keep your eye on the road lest you become yet another of the many folks who ram the garden barriers. Save your film for the bottom where, if you're lucky, you can find a parking space and take a few snapshots of the silly spectacle.
Can't stand the throngs? Potrero Hill's Vermont Street between 20th and 22nd streets is a kind of blue-collar Lombard Street, with a similar series of switchbacks but without Lombard's gorgeous gardens and views. Vermont has only six switchbacks, but they're steeper and sharper, with an interesting view of the back of the city, though the street itself isn't as scenic.
Thrill seekers of a different stripe may want to head two blocks south of Lombard to Filbert Street. The hair-raising descent between Hyde and Leavenworth streets is said to be the city's steepest Leave a Comment Directions: Don’t ask locals where Lombard Street is, they're likely to point you further down toward the Marina District, where the street becomes a main traffic thoroughfare
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Russian Hill, a residential neighborhood with pockets of restaurants and shops, is the start of the most famous part of Lombard Street, formerly the world most crooked street (Burlington's Snake Alley in Iowa is now it).
Lombard Street is best known for one block on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction of being "the former crookedest [most winding] street in the United States." (Vermont St. between 20th St and 22nd St near the San Francisco General Hospital may be steeper, but has only seven turns, and is in a much less picturesque location.) The Powell-Hyde cable car line stops at the top of this block.
The crooked section of the street is reserved for one-way traffic traveling east (downhill), and is paved with bricks. The section was built in 1923 to accommodate the steepness of the slope
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 Lombardstreet serpentines by Bernd_L
This short part of Lombardstreet is very well decorated which flower-beds and is surrounded by nice houses. So it's worth to go there.
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 Cars at the street by Carmela71
We are talking about 8 turnings in the same block as it was in the 20´s a steep street for a straigh road....
Walk through it and do the photo from downside, you will have to fight for an space hehehehe
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 Lombard Street, San Francisco by AndrafLeave a Comment
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 Lombard Street by SmileyLeSa
The best place to photograph the street, is from Leavenworth Street. (See my picture below.) Leave a Comment
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