49 Mile Scenic Drive
49 Mile Scenic Drive is a scenic drive in California. Within California it covers roughly 45 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along 49 Mile Scenic Drive with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Laid out in 1938 and marked by distinctive blue-and-white seagull signs, San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive loops through the city to string together its landmarks. It takes in the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio, Lombard Street's crooked block, Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park, and the waterfront, offering a self-guided tour of the city in a single circuit. Following the signs is famously easy to get wrong where they're missing.
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Lombard Street
- Twin Peaks
- Golden Gate Park
- seagull-sign route
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About this drive
This is a scenic drive — a road worth taking for the views and the journey itself rather than the quickest line between two points.