Pier 45
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and tourist attraction in San Francisco, located in the northern part of the city's waterfront. The Aquatic Park Historic District is often considered to be part of Fisherman's Wharf, though some neighborhood descriptions treat it as a separate area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include USS Pampanito and Musée Mécanique.
USS Pampanito
Museum
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
USS Pampanito is a Balao-class submarine built for the United States Navy during World War II; it is the third U.S. Navy vessel named for the pompano fish. USS Pampanito is situated 370 feet east of Pier 45.
Musée Mécanique
Amusement arcade
Photo: Piotrus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée Mécanique is a for-profit interactive museum of 20th-century penny arcade games and artifacts, located at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. With over 300 mechanical machines, it is one of the world's largest privately owned collections. Musée Mécanique is situated 610 feet southeast of Pier 45.
Alcatraz Island
Islet
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alcatraz Island is a small island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco in San Francisco Bay, California, near the Golden Gate Strait. The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military prison.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fisherman’s Wharf and Russian Hill.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Francisco's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.
Russian Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: BDS2006, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".
North Beach
Quarter
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy.
Pier 45
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: pier in San Francisco, California, United States
- Categories: pier and tourism
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.81002° or 37° 48′ 36″ northLongitude
-122.41768° or 122° 25′ 4″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
849VRH6J+2WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1206800348OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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