Tours and Tickets to Experience Sutro Baths

There are plenty of ways to experience the Sutro Baths. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now: 

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It’s free to visit Sutro Baths, but many travelers opt to explore the historic ruins on a tour of San Francisco’s Golden Gate National Park. Guided e-bike tours of the national park start at US$110 while sightseeing tours of San Francisco, including the Sutro Baths, start around US$130.

The Sutro Baths are the coastal ruins of a 19th-century bathhouse complex built by millionaire Adolph Sutro and abandoned in the 1960s. Located just north of Ocean Beach and the Cliff House within the Golden Gate National Park, it’s a popular sunset spot, accessed from the Lands End trail.

It’s about a 30-minute drive to the Sutro Baths from downtown San Francisco, right to the western end of Geary Street—the 38-Geary bus also follows the same route. There’s a large car park by the Lands End Lookout, from where it’s about a 10-minute walk down to the ruins.

Many tours of the San Francisco coastline and the Golden Gate National Park include a visit to the Sutro Baths. You can explore the seafront pools, scramble over the old concrete foundations, and hike along the coastal trails to the Point Lobos lookout, the Cliff House, and Ocean Beach.

No, the Sutro Baths are not accessible. Two trails lead down to the ruins—a steep dirt path and a flight of stairs—and neither is easily accessible for wheelchairs. However, parts of the Lands End trail and the Lands End Visitor Center are accessible, offering views over the baths.