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San Francisco: Best bay views
Posted by: JD Rinne, Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009, 3:03 PM

San Francisco is a beautiful city, as reader photos in my Budget Travel will show you. Tom Stienstra, an outdoors columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has listed his top 10 spots to see and capture the best bay views.

The spots are reachable via car or on foot; many are the culmination of hikes or bike rides. One that caught my eye was Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands, where you can see the Golden Gate Bridge and, through early winter, migrating raptor birds. Stienstra calls it "one of the best spots for photos in California."

Naturally, many of the Chronicle's readers responded; see their suggestions here.

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On a recent visit to the Bay Area, my wife and I flew above the bay and the city with Airship Ventures, flying at about 1,200 feet on a Sunset flight in their Zepplin. What a view!

Posted By Mark on December 3, 2009, 2:34 PM

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