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San Francisco

United States of America · 11 quests

History

2 quests
San Francisco Columbarium, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
San Francisco Columbarium
Stained glass appears inside a house for ashes
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Its orange towers hold a road above the bay

Nature

2 quests
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
This park takes more room than Central Park
Tank Hill, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Tank Hill
Raw rock hides above the city skyline

Art

1 quest
Wave Organ, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Wave Organ
The tide plays pipes set into the shore

Food

3 quests
Neapolitan Pizza, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Neapolitan Pizza
The crust puffs around a soft center
Cioppino, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Cioppino
Fishermen built this stew from the day’s catch
Crawfish Beignets, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Crawfish Beignets
Fried dough hides a savory crawfish center

Beach

1 quest
Ocean Beach, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Ocean Beach
Its long shore catches both surf and fog

Sport

1 quest
Oracle Park, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Oracle Park
Home runs can land in the bay

Party

1 quest
Smuggler's Cove, San Francisco🇺🇸 San Francisco
Smuggler's Cove
Three floors turn a bar into a shipwreck

United States of America

Photo quests in San Francisco

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

San Francisco holds eleven quests across every category the catalogue keeps, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in History behind it.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Tank Hill. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other ten are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers eight of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the San Francisco quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in San Francisco the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near San Francisco

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in San Francisco

How many photo quests are there in San Francisco?
11, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Among them: San Francisco Columbarium, Golden Gate Park and Wave Organ.
What is there to do in San Francisco beyond the obvious?
One of the 11 quests in San Francisco is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". San Francisco holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and eight at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Tank Hill, in Nature.
Can you do all the San Francisco quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 11 falls within 6.7 km of the middle of the San Francisco list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which San Francisco quests can you do for free?
10 of the 11 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 11 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in San Francisco means one quest: Tank Hill.
How do I prove I visited a place in San Francisco?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in San Francisco is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from San Francisco Columbarium fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in San Francisco sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.