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Chinatown (Dragon Gate entrance) – Union Square loop from Chinatown-Rose Pak

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San Francisco

Chinatown (Dragon Gate entrance) – Union Square loop from Chinatown-Rose Pak

Hard

4.9

(5373)

17,240

hikers

Chinatown (Dragon Gate entrance) – Union Square loop from Chinatown-Rose Pak

06:42

24.1km

390m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 21, 2026

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Lands End

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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339 m

San Francisco Chinatown

Highlight • Settlement

San Francisco's Chinatown, centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street, is the oldest in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. Established in the early 1850s, it has played a crucial role in the history and culture of Chinese immigrants in North America.

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648 m

Chinatown (Dragon Gate entrance)

Highlight • Monument

The South Gate on Grant St at Bush St is probably the best known entrance to San Francisco's China Town, as it faces downtown. Grant is the most active street lined with tourist shops and restaurants and slow-moving one-way South-North traffic, technically ending at Broadway where Little Italy/North Beach begins, but Chinese meanwhile own most of North Beach, Telegraph hill and Russian Hill neighborhoods as well.
Parallel to Grant St is Stockton St, more actively used by Chinese themselves with dozens of Chinese-language-only shops, eateries, and groceries spilling out to the sidewalks.

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1.15 km

Union Square

Highlight • Settlement

Historic square surrounded by top shopping outlets, site of daily outdoor cultural and entertainment programs changing throughout the year. Great view of the square from the top floor balcony of the Cheesecake Factory high above the south side of the square. In the center stands a 85-foot-tall (26 m) column topped by a 9-foot (2.7 m) statue of Nike, the ancient Greek goddess of victory. This monument dedicated to Admiral George Dewey was unveiled in 1903 for his 1898 victory during the Spanish–American War in the Battle of Manila Bay.

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2.82 km

City Hall 🏛️ San Francisco Civic Center

Highlight • Monument

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917. The structure's dome is taller than that of the United States Capitol by 42 feet. The present building replaced an earlier City Hall that was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_City_Hall

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7.05 km

Conservatory of Flowers 🌺 Golden Gate Park

Highlight • Monument

Lush tropical vegetation in a historic classic glass house on the east side of Golden Gate Park. Entrance free first Tuesday of the month.

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12.8 km

Ocean Beach view from Cliff House

Highlight • Beach

Ocean Beach borders the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of San Francisco, California. It is adjacent to Golden Gate Park, the Richmond District, and the Sunset District. The Great Highway runs alongside the beach, and the Cliff House ( komoot.de/highlight/154205 ) and the site of the former Sutro Baths ( komoot.de/highlight/154206 ) sit at the northern end. The beach is a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is administered by the National Park Service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Beach,_San_Francisco
parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/ocean-beach.html

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14.4 km

Coastal Trail - Land's End

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Spectacular coastal and Golden Gate views from this trail that is part paved, part narrow climbing stairs through landslide areas that destroyed the former rail line built by Adolph Sutro, a German-born self-made millionaire, philanthropist, and later, mayor of San Francisco, to transport people to his heated seawater pool and entertainment complex at the end of the 19th century.

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15.5 km

Lands End Eastern Trailhead

Highlight • Trail

Eastern Trailhead for the coastal trail, probably San Francisco's most spectacular nature path, leading around the forested cliffs at the city's North-Western corner overlooking the entrance to the Golden Gate. The 2.3 mile trail follows the bed of an earlier Steam train line built in the 1880s to bring customers to Adolphe Sutro's bath complex at Lands End, but frequent landslides made a rail and later a road along the cliffs too costly to maintain.

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20.5 km

Cannon Hill

Peak

24.1 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

12.0 km

5.20 km

3.27 km

2.21 km

1.39 km

Surfaces

10.3 km

6.13 km

4.39 km

1.56 km

910 m

818 m

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Chinatown (Dragon Gate entrance) – Union Square loop from Chinatown-Rose Pak

San Francisco Chinatown

Chinatown (Dragon Gate entrance)

Union Square

City Hall 🏛️ San Francisco Civic Center

Conservatory of Flowers 🌺 Golden Gate Park

Ocean Beach view from Cliff House

Coastal Trail - Land's End

Lands End Eastern Trailhead

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