Walking Tours

Join Shaping San Francisco for a one-hour walking tour through San Francisco: a custom-built Noir-ish wander called “Through the Fog: San Francisco’s Hidden Histories.” This tour will take patrons through Polk Gulch’s literary and queer history, into the Tenderloin to explore jazz, migrations, and SRO housing, and explore the mist-covered landscape with infrastructural highlights designed to activate the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Tickets are $40 per person. Tour begins at Polk and Bush Streets, and ends at the Toni Rembe Theater. This is not a strenuous walk. Walkers should be prepared for an urban walk through busy (and sometimes gritty) city sidewalks.

About Shaping San Francisco

Serving the City for 25 years, Shaping San Francisco, under the direction of Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott, is a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. Shaping San Francisco has presented 18 years of public programming including talks and tours investigating the intersections of San Francisco’s histories—social, cultural, ecological, technological, architectural, and more. A digital archive first created in 1998, Foundsf.org, operates as an open source online historical resource for information on the City’s past and a place to share one’s own memories. Learn more at shapingsf.org and Foundsf.org.

Interested in a longer tour inspired by The Headlands? Shaping San Francisco is offering a 3-hour version of their noir-ish wander on Saturday, March 4—click here to learn more.