San Francisco
A self-guided audio walking tour of San Francisco, United States
This self-guided audio walking tour of San Francisco in San Francisco, United States covers 11 narrated stops over roughly 60 minutes and about 4.5 km on foot. Press play in the PodWalk app and each stop is narrated automatically as you arrive — walk at your own pace, online or fully offline. The route runs from New Conservatory Theatre Center to Pacific High Recording. Expect a focus on history and hidden gems.
Download free, then play this walk in San Francisco — narration starts automatically at each stop, online or off.
The route, stop by stop
New Conservatory Theatre Center
1981 — the year this building became a theater — is also the year the first major American news outlets began covering the AIDS crisis. That timing isn't incidental to what the New Conservatory Theatre Center…
Rich Table
Hayes Valley didn't always look like this — a neighborhood where a restaurant can hold a Michelin star for seven years and still feel like it belongs to the…
War Memorial Opera House
Nineteen thirty-two, and San Francisco decided it needed to look like a capital — not just govern like…
Nourse Theater
Tucked just off the civic axis, 275 Hayes Street holds a theater that most San Franciscans walk past without knowing its name has…
100 Van Ness Avenue
For most of its life, this tower was where Californians came to argue about their cars — insurance claims, membership cards, the bureaucratic machinery of the open…
Charter of the United Nations
June 1945. Fifty nations sent delegates to San Francisco to sign a document that would attempt to organize the world after its worst war. They signed it here, in this…
The Prelinger Library
Somewhere inside this building, there's probably a trade periodical from 1887 that no other library on earth has…
James Lick Baths
Think about what a city owes its working poor. Not theaters, not libraries — soap and hot…
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
In 1978, someone decided that a performing arts center didn't need to sort its artists by who they loved — and built one…
La Mamelle, Inc./Art Com
Nineteen seventy-five, South of Market — a group of artists decides that if no institution will show their work, they'll build the institution…
Pacific High Recording
1968. The Haight is already fading, but the music isn't finished yet — and somewhere in this city, a studio opens its doors to capture what's left of…
These are the opening lines of each stop. The full narration — and the audio — plays in the app.
San Francisco walking tour — good to know
- How long is the San Francisco walking tour?
- About 60 minutes on foot, covering 11 stops over 4.5 km. You can pause and pick it back up whenever you like.
- What does the San Francisco audio tour cover?
- 11 narrated stops, beginning at New Conservatory Theatre Center and ending at Pacific High Recording. Each one plays automatically as you reach it.
- Do I need an internet connection or mobile data?
- No. Download the walk once in the PodWalk app and the narration plays fully offline — handy while roaming in United States. GPS triggers each stop as you arrive.
- Is the San Francisco audio tour free?
- Your first walk on PodWalk is free. After that, walks come through one-time passes from $2.99 — there's no subscription and nothing auto-renews.
- Can I do the tour at my own pace?
- Yes. There's no guide and no schedule — start when you want, linger as long as you like, and the next stop plays automatically when you get there.
Walk San Francisco with PodWalk
Free to download. Your first walk is free, and you can download this one for fully offline use.