Lands End & the Coastal Trail
San Francisco (Golden Gate NRA) · near San Francisco · SF Bay Area
Trail Running
At a glance
- Difficulty
- easy
- Distance
- 3.4 miles
- Elevation gain
- 400 ft
- Best season
- Year-round
Permits and booking
- Permit required
- No
- How the permit works
- No permit. GGNRA — free. Parking at Lands End Lookout / Merrie Way lot.
What is here
- Features
- Golden Gate Bridge from the city side · Sutro Baths ruins · Cypress groves & Pacific cliffs · Mile Rock overlook & labyrinth
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Trail Running detail
- Surface
- mixed
- Intl tip
- Start at the Lands End Lookout visitor center (free parking, café). The trail connects to Ocean Beach to the south and Baker Beach to the east for longer runs. Time an evening run for sunset over the Marin Headlands.
The guide
Lands End is San Francisco's finest urban trail run — a cliff-edge coastal path at the city's rugged northwest corner where the…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Lands End & the Coastal Trail — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.7855, -122.5057