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California - San Francisco - Bay Area Attractions

San Francisco Bay is one of the world's major bays and harbors which is now almost entirely ringed by urban development. The mouth of the Bay is spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge while the Oakland Bay Bridge, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, the Dunbarton Bridge, and the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge crossing the width of this north-south body of water.
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Picture of Point Reyes National Seashore
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Point Reyes National Seashore is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It lies at the end of the San Andreas Fault and shows dramatic evidence of earthquake movement.
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San Francisco - Angel Island State Park
Angel Island, 740 acres/300ha in area, lies north of the city in San Francisco Bay. In the course of the last hundred years it was used as a quarantine station for immigrants from Asia and as a coastguard station, becoming a prisoner-of-war camp and anti-rocket site during the Second World War.

The uninhabited island is now a municipal park .

Motor vehicles are banned from the island which, with its pleasant cycle tracks and footpaths and large picnic areas is a favorite spot for excursions from the city.
Address
Angel Island State Park
Box 866
Tiburon, CA 94920-0866
United States
Phone 1 (415) 435-1915
Fax 1 (415) 435-2950
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Transit
Ferries: Pier 43.5 (Fisherman's Wharf).
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport currently has three terminals and handles domestic flights and international connections to and from the Pacific Rim, Europe and Latin America.
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