Ghirardelli Square, Aquatic Park & Hyde Street Pier

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Tour Ghirardelli Square, Aquatic Park and Hyde St. Pier in San Francisco with our QTVR™ panoramas in the left column.

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A March 14, 1916 article in The Star recommended establishment of an aquatic park in San Francisco. The Municipal Pier, a public fishing facility with great views of The City, Alcatraz Island, Coit Tower, and the Golden Gate Bridge, curves around Aquatic Park.

The Hyde Street Cable Car Turnaround gives waiting tourists a great view of Aquatic Park. Catch the Cable Car here and take it to the top of the Crookedest Street and on past The Cable Car Museum and Nob Hill to the turnaround at the other end near Union Square.

Any day of the year you may see members of The Dolphin Club swimming at Aquatic Park.

The National Maritime Museum is free to visit. It overlooks San Francisco’s only downtown public beach and Hyde Street Pier.

The National Maritime Museum building — constructed in the shape of a ship during the 1930s as a WPA project — and had been called the Aquatic Park Casino when Alma Spreckels moved a collection of ship models she had rescued from the Exposition of 1939 there.

The U.S. Army commandeered the building during WWII, but it returned to use as a Museum after the war. Ten years after it was initally concevied Alma's original idea for the Maritime Museum was expaned to include the historic ships at Hyde Street Pier by Karl Kortum.

You can tour the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha, 1895 schooner C.A. Thayer, 1890 steam ferryboat Eureka, 1907 steam tugboat Hercules, 1914 steam sidewheeler Eppleton Hall, and 1891 scow schooner Alma built at Hunters Point — a fleet of floating National Historic Landmarks at Hyde Street Pier

Other Maritime Museums with historic sailing ships featured on iNeTours.com can be found in New YorK City and San Diego.

Use your San Francisco CityPass for seven days of unlimited travel on cable cars, streetcars, and all other MUNI vehicles as well as entrance to five popular SF attractions.

After you've taken a virtual tour of Aquatic Park and Ghirardelli Square on iNeTours.com you might want to take a real San Francisco tour. You can see more images of this area on my Segway Tour page.

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