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With wind-sculpted trees and Victorian turrets you'll feel like you have the world at your feet atop Corona Heights, Buena Vista Park or any of the city’s 41 other peaks. Hilltop green spaces like George Sterling Park and Ina Coolbrith Park are San Francisco’s crowning glories.Ĭity Lights is an independent bookstore and a literary landmark © Paul Juser / Shutterstock City Lights Booksįree speech and free spirits have rejoiced here since 1957, when City Lights founder and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and manager Shigeyoshi Murao won a landmark ruling defending their right to publish Allen Ginsberg's magnificent epic poem Howl. As you scale SF’s other steep hills with calf muscles straining, gravity seems unkind, but all grumbling ends once you hit the summit. Coit Tower's paintings and panoramic viewing platform show San Francisco at its best: a city of broad perspectives, outlandish and inspiring.
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Fire-fighting millionaire Lillie Hitchcock Coit commissioned this art deco monument honoring firefighters, and muralists captured 1930s San Francisco in its lobby frescoes. Filbert St Steps pass cliffside cottage gardens to reach SF's monument to independent thinking: Coit Tower. Wild parrots might mock your progress up Telegraph Hill, but they can't expect to keep scenery like this to themselves. There's a panoramic viewing platform at Coit Tower © Matt Moldenhauer / Shutterstock Coit Tower and other hilltop city views