Sutro Baths

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Lonely Planet review

All good things must come to an end, but the Sutro Baths make a particularly splendid ruin. In its heyday Victorian dandies and working stiffs converged here for a bracing bath and workout in itchy wool swimsuits. Mining magnate and populist mayor Adolph Sutro built hot and cold indoor pools to accommodate 25,000 frolicking unwashed masses in 1896, but the masses apparently preferred dirt, and the place was reinvented as an ice rink before it finally closed in 1952. Follow the path through the sea-cave archway at low tide for an end-of-the-world view of Marin.