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🌇 Sunset chasers

West-side magic. · 14 places with photos
Ocean Beach
outdoors · Outer Sunset
Three miles of wild Pacific at the city's edge, the definitive spot for the sun into the sea.
Sutro Baths
dates · Lands End
Bathhouse ruins crumbling into the Pacific at Lands End, cinematic west-facing sundowns.
Sutro Heights Park
dates · Outer Richmond
Cliffside parapet over Ocean Beach, bring a bottle and watch the Pacific swallow the sun.
Lands End
outdoors · Lands End
Cliffside trail where the city meets the open Pacific, an unbroken western horizon at dusk.
Baker Beach
outdoors · Presidio
Wide sand with the Golden Gate framed and the sun dropping past the headlands into the sea.
Beach Chalet
dates · Outer Sunset $$
Restaurant over Ocean Beach, grab a sunset table as the Pacific swallows the light.
Fort Funston
outdoors · Lake Merced
Sandy bluffs over the open Pacific with huge western skies for the sun into the sea.
Marshall's Beach
outdoors · Presidio
Hike-down beach with a straight-on bridge view as the sun sinks toward the Pacific.
16th Avenue Tiled Steps
outdoors · Golden Gate Heights
Climb the tiled steps to Grandview for a westside vantage of the sun going down.
Grand View Park
outdoors · Golden Gate Heights / Sunset
Sand-dune summit, Turtle Hill, with an open westside view of the Pacific sunset.
Legion of Honor
art · Lincoln Park $$
Neoclassical museum on the cliffs with the open Pacific and the sunset behind it.
China Beach
outdoors · Sea Cliff
Sheltered cove below Sea Cliff with bridge views out toward the setting western sun.
Camera Obscura
outdoors · Outer Richmond
Clifftop Lands End perch dead-on to the western horizon where the sun drops into the sea.
Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant
food
Brewpub over Ocean Beach with the Pacific sunset out the western windows.