&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Lombard_Street_2020.jpg) Lombard Street in 2020 | |
| Part of |  US 101 between Richardson Ave./Broderick St. and Van Ness Avenue |
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| Namesake | Philadelphia's Lombard Street |
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| Coordinates | 37°48′07″N 122°25′08″W / 37.80194°N 122.41889°W |
| West end | Presidio Boulevard |
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| East end | The Embarcadero |
Interactive map of the crooked section of Lombard Street
Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year and up to 17,000 per day on busy summer weekends, as of 2015.[1]
San Francisco surveyor Jasper O'Farrell named the road after Lombard Street in Philadelphia.[2]
- ^ San Francisco County Transportation Authority: Lombard Study: Managing Access to the "Crooked Street". February 2017 (PDF)
- ^ Loewenstein, Louis, K. (1984) Streets of San Francisco: The Origins of Street and Place Names. Don't Call It Frisco Press.