Low Budget: San Francisco on the Cheap

You can have a ton of fun visiting San Francisco on a dime. Here are a few free and nearly free things to do:

• Eat at a taco wagon and a crepe wagon
• Visit the free Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate park
• Look up inexpensive activities on Broke Ass Stuart
• Sip free wine at an art gallery opening
• Go on a free City Guides walking tour
• Get Acme bread and Cowgirl Creamery cheese from the Ferry Building for a simple picnic.
• Spend the day in Chinatown looking at exotic vegetables
• Hunt down the Douglass Playground Slides
• See a free outdoor movie at Dolores Park with dinner thanks to the Tamale Lady
• Visit the modern St. Mary’s Cathedral
• Walk around North Beach and up to Coit Tower
• See all the stairways of San Francisco