Lombard Street (San Francisco)

Lombard Street
Lombard Street in 2020
Part of US 101 between Richardson Ave./Broderick St. and Van Ness Avenue
NamesakePhiladelphia's Lombard Street
Maintained by
Coordinates37°48′07″N 122°25′08″W / 37.80194°N 122.41889°W / 37.80194; -122.41889
West endPresidio Boulevard
Major
junctions
East endThe Embarcadero
Map
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]

  1. ^ San Francisco County Transportation Authority: Lombard Study: Managing Access to the "Crooked Street". February 2017 (PDF)
  2. ^ Loewenstein, Louis, K. (1984) Streets of San Francisco: The Origins of Street and Place Names. Don't Call It Frisco Press.