Angel Island

When your parents are in town...

....they will put you on a boat and sail to Angel Island. They'll go nuts over the stunning views and you'll declare this view point to be the very best of San Francisco.

This trip was one my parents favourite part of their SF visit. And I'll highly recommend it too. The views really are amazing and so is the history of the island (Angel Island was referred to as 'the Ellis Island of the West' in the early twentieth century as the island processed hundreds of thousands of immigrants in that time period).

To get here we took the ferry from Tiburon in Marin County but there's ferries sailing from SF, too.