San Francisco Maritime National Park Association Review

Great little open air museum focusing on ships in age of sail and steam.

Many friendly docents. The old wooden boats are well restored and one is in the boat shop being rebuild.

Fun and a nice to do when in the city. Very cold at times.

Great view. We took a boat tour of Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz.

It's a beach, usually crowded and while I do go there a lot, it's not a great beach to do stuff.

It is a beautiful spot, especially when the weather is calm, especially in the evening. You are near a lot of city activity, but it can seem so quiet. It is something that ought not to be displaced by development.

This museum is awesome! Remember, it's a federal park. So the parks card works here as well.

We visited on a cold day in February. Even though it was a cloudy day, the sun finally peaked thru, allowing me to take some great pictures. We walked down the pier to check out the schooner, fairy, tugboat and sailboat on display. From the tugboat is a great view onto Alcatraz and on the other side of the pier a great view onto the Golden Gate bridge. Sealions were taking naps on the pier and the museum had a lot of great information about San Francisco and its history. If your kid is interested in the Junior Ranger program, a badge will be given after completing some assignments.

Interesting old boats you can explore with Storys about their usage

Not as fun as other beaches around here but still a beautiful view of Alcatraz

Uhmm the last (recently added pics) are actually of the president McKinley monument at the Panhandle park, which is across Baker St. from the San Francisco DMV ~ which is adjacent to Golden Gate park (city & county of SF), --not-- Golden Gate National Park - someone in locations messed it up.

Its a serenely peaceful place to hang out and read something to relax with, except when something is going on that causes a ruckus. Or when too many pot-heads are up wind and they decide to start lighting up.

Regrettably lots of recreational pot smokers come to this place, at all hours. To pollute the air, I am sorry to report.

The maritime museum also have a comprehensive collection of old cars.

Nice museum. You can take great pictures of the old ships.

It is good as a quiet walk course in the early morning

Nice national park site in the port of San Francisco. Nice environment with many different activities on the various piers. Several nice restaurants in the area. The historical site includes a museum building with a number of exhibitions about maritime shipping. Opposite is a pier where several historic ships are moored. These ships can be visited and offer a good overview of life and work on board. For example of sailing ships. For the youth there are fun activities on board.

This is a small park with nice views and relaxing atmosphere

So much of SF's history is tied to the water. Great to see the ships and ferries that are so much a part of our lore and development

Only been on the outside of thecoolest building ever...like a ship or submarine

If you really want to learn about San Francisco, this is the place.

This is a very interesting place made better by the fact that it's an island of calm amidst a sea of tourists.

Excellent addition to the National Park System. A variety of historic vessels, a visitor center with exhibits on par with an actual museum, and numerous events scheduled to further enrich the visitor makes this a great place. I like how the NPS actually employees people just to maintain the boats. That s dedication. You can t see San Francisco without seeing her boats.

Beautiful beach! Deserves 5 stars, but the signs EVERYWHERE that say NO PETS on the beach do nothing. Dog owners let their dogs pee everywhere, run all over people's beach towels and shake water all over their stuff, attack other dogs and do nothing about it. No security to protect the people who just want to enjoy the beach made for people.

Beautiful place to relax have a picnic, get a long walk in or just take in the sunshine

They had a pier full of historic ships to board and walk around. The staff was working on the boats and were very happy to show anyone around and answer questions. It was a real travel in time to be on old sailboats that would go around the horn with tons of cargo in the hold. There were not many people there, and usually the captain's quarters, crew bunks, the tiller and cargo areas were open to view and were well lit. If you have a national park pass I think it was free.

Learned lots about ships and some history. The model ship builders do great work.

Good place but many people for times of pandemic do not wear masks and there is no distance

Great National Park, the ships are well worth the visit.

Checked out he boats real cool historic place imagining how it would be back in the early 1900s and sophisticated San Francisco was

Even more beautiful during the pandemic because of the few people around

Awesome place to spend the whole day with the family

We visited here on a Monday morning when there was no crowd. We really wanted to go on the sailing ship. We had a volunteer tour guide who gave us the complete tour and all the history of the ship. He was very good and made the tour a great experience for us.
I highly recommend it!!

The maritime stuff is a good place to take kids. The WPA murals and the history of the building is way more interesting. There is a room off to the side that was dedicated to one of the artists theory of color. The ceiling is painted as huge color wheel.

A wonderful effort is being put in here to save and restore some truly historic vessels. It was great to have open access to see their workshops and their use of traditional boat building practices.

One of the best NPS units in SF!!! GO VISIT! you'll be glad you did -

Free history with the scent of the Ocean. Boat tours are payable, but bags are read by a sailboat. Beautiful view of the beautiful city, magnificent Golden Gate.

Great museum and library. Don't miss "The Waterfront" exhibit in the Visitors Center (it's free); an excellent intro to SF history.

I like the quietness of the location and the way nature comes walking by minding its own business while u sit back and observe nature in the city.

If its your thing exploring these old ships and ferries is a great way to spend a couple of hours in San Fran

Great museum and site. Really cool ships that you can walk through. Educational and fun!

Very interesting artifacts collections. We like it.