Where to take a picture with Golden Gate Bridge in the background?

Question

Just moved to SF and want to take a picture with the bridge in the background for Christmas cards. Any suggestions on where to go for this?

Answer 1

Walk over and take it from the other side to the Golden Gate Recreational Park you'll get good photo's from there as long as the fog doesn't roll in

Answer 2

Go to Marin Headlands just north of the Bridge on the west.  You can get bridge in foreground; city in background....have to go on no foggy day.  

US-101 N

Take the exit toward Alexander Ave

Merge onto Sausalito Lateral Rd

Slight left at Bunker Rd

Continue on Field Rd

Answer 3

There are a few places you can do this, and all are beautiful.  

If you go to the suburb Haight Ashbury there is a park called Beuna Vista and if you go to the top of the hills there, you can see some of SF and the Golden Gate bridge in the background.  Also, Crissy Field provides a fantastic view of the Bridge, but the most famous image of the bridge is taken from the other side, so that you are looking back toward SF.  sftravel.com is a good guide for this.  See the two links for further info.

Answer 4

Go near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Answer 5

Marin Headlands is good, there is a road that goes along the hills, you can see not just the bridge but the city in the background.  On a really clear day it can be spectacular. Plus you'll love Marin Headlands anyway.

The other really good place, and I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it.  Just on this side (the San Francisco side) of the bridge is a Civil War era fort named Fort Point.  The bridge actually goes over the top of it, and there is a special little arch under the S.F. end that goes over this old fort.

If you drive through the Presidio towards the bridge you'll see signs to Fort Point.  Or if you drive north towards the bridge and get off at the very last exit, where the little view lot is, you can take the road from there, down a hill and under the bridge.  It's a museum now, and worth a visit in itself.

The road that goes to Fort Point goes along the edge of the water.  If you saw Vertigo, the Alfred Hitchcock film, Kim Novak jumps into the water here and Jimmy Stewart saves her.  This road, you can see a beautiful view of the bridge in the background. You're looking up at it.  Whenever I get a new car or motorcycle I have to have a picture on this road with the bridge in the background.  It's also seen in a million TV ads.  Plus you don't have to go across the bridge so you save five bucks.