Other activities in San Francisco
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Golden Gate Municipal Golf Course
Golden Gate Park has a challenging nine-hole, par-27 course built on sand dunes, with some 100yd drop-offs, 180yd elevated greens and Pacific views. No reservations are taken, but it's busiest before 9am weekdays and after school. On weekend afternoons, bide your time waiting with excellent clubhouse wood-fired BBQ sandwiches (their secret: Anchor Steam beer in the sauce). Equipment rentals and practice range available; kids welcome.
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Half Moon Bay Kayaking
If you want to hit the water, contact Half Moon Bay Kayaking, which rents kayaks and leads stellar guided wildlife and sunset paddles. The main beach in town is OK if you have little kids who constantly have to go to the bathroom, but it gets way too crowded; keep going.
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Gold’s Gym (Castro)
The definitive gay gym draws a neighborhood crowd of chatty muscle-Marys and quiet straight gals who appreciate being left alone. Full selection of equipment; packed after work. Notorious steam room. It has classes – from Body Pump to yoga – and a proper dance studio.
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Lincoln Park Golf Course
For game-sabotaging views, the hilly, 18-hole Lincoln Park course wraps around Land's End and the Legion of Honor to face Golden Gate Bridge. This course has the most iconic SF vistas, so watch out for daydreaming hikers and brides posing for wedding pictures – fore!
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Ramekins Culinary School
Ramekins Culinary School is Wine Country’s premier workshop venue for home chefs, with hands-on cheesemaking seminars, knife-skills boot camps and demos by Sonoma’s award-winning Mediterranean cookbook author Paula Wolfert.
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Harding Park Municipal Golf Course
San Francisco's bargain public course is a lush 18-hole landscape partially shaded by cypress trees beside the ocean, plus the Jack Fleming nine-hole course, where walk-ins are welcome. Cart is included with 18-hole greens fees, or costs $14 with nine holes; call to reserve tee times.
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PresidioGo
Good clean family fun in an army base, because sometimes you just need to put down the guns and bowl. Groove despite yourself to '80s jukebox pop, and see for yourself if Bud tastes better in a bowling pin shaped bottle.
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Precita Eyes Mission Mural Tours
Muralists lead two-hour tours on foot or bike covering 60 to 70 murals in a six to 10 block radius of mural-bedecked Balmy Alley; proceeds fund mural upkeep.
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Gold's Gym (SoMa)
Testosterone-y daddies prefer this SoMa location to the one in the Castro. It's a vast warehouse space with twice the equipment, a sauna and a steam room. It offers classes from Body Pump to yoga.
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Spoke Folk
Bicycle is the best way to explore Wine Country’s scenic back roads. Bring your own via ferry or bus, or rent one for $30 to $45 per day at Healdsburg’s Spoke Folk.
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Sonoma Valley Cyclery
Bicycle is the best way to explore Wine Country’s scenic back roads. Bring your own via ferry or bus, or rent one for $30 to $45 per day at Sonoma Valley Cyclery.
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Calistoga Bike Shop
Bicycle is the best way to explore Wine Country’s scenic back roads. Bring your own via ferry or bus, or rent one for $30 to $45 per day at Calistoga Bike Shop.
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Culinary Institute of America
At the Culinary Institute of America, set in an 1889 stone chateau, you can watch acclaimed chefs do demos and chef-trainees impress instructors in an open kitchen.
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La Cocina
This nonprofit offers cooking workshops ($65 to $95) and classes on starting a food business ($25), with proceeds providing training and professional kitchens for low-income culinary entrepreneurs.
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Chinatown Alleyway Tours
Neighborhood teens lead two-hour tours for up-close-and-personal peeks into Chinatown's past (weather permitting). Book five days ahead or pay double for Saturday walk-ins; cash only.
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Napa Valley Adventure Tours
Wine-tasting bicycle trips with organic picnics and personal introductions to winemakers, artisans and organic farmers along the Silverado Trail.
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Napa Valley Wine Train
Cushy, touristy three-hour trips with an optional winery stop ($25 extra) and a bar car (four tastings $10).
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Fire Engine Tours
Hot stuff: a 75-minute ride in an open-air vintage fire engine over Golden Gate Bridge. Dress warmly in case of fog.
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Stow Lake
Huntington Falls tumble down 400ft Strawberry Hill into the lake, near a romantic Chinese pavilion and a 1946 boathouse offering boat and bike rentals.
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Green Tortoise
Quasi- organized, slow travel on customized, biodiesel-fueled buses with built-in berths that run from San Francisco to points across California and beyond, including Bay Area day tours to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz; three-day trips to Yosemite or Death Valley; three-to-five-day jaunts to Burning Man and other festivals; and three-to-seven-day coastal trips south to Monterey, Big Sur and LA.
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Craigslist
Lists opportunities to be of service to the Bay Area community, from nonprofit fashion-show fundraisers to teaching English to new arrivals.
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Courts
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Cook Here & Now
Hosts free, multi-culti community cooking events celebrating local, seasonal ingredients at San Francisco Parks & Recreation's Mission Arts Center. Sign-up is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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VolunteerMatch
Matches your interests, talents and availability with a local nonprofit where you could donate your time, if only for a few hours.
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