Bit of a weird place. Lots of hippy stores selling overpriced tie-dye clothes, some nice little boutiques and some random music and thrift stores. Worth a visit for an hour or two but if you have other things that you're desperate to do then don't feel bad about missing this place out. One thing that did freak me out was... More

The very best thing about any place is the people. There were loads of young people with long hair and not-so-neat appearance. Real anti-establishment or out-of-the-mainstream types. It is the young who are most idealistic and visionary and will always probably be. The numbers have diminished but the spirit hasn't. There were a few of us baby-boomers there also to... More

So many have written negatively about Haight-Ashbury! What did you expect? Yes, there are dopers, but, no one bothers you. I visited mid-week early afternoon and it was peaceful and fun. There are blocks of open shops. If you're a child of the 60s, visit! It isn't a ghetto area and no one stalks you. Geez, your missing the point... More

My husband and I took a bus ride into haight-Ashbury after the dinner hour. Most of the shops were closed with the exception of a few head shops.(seen one, you've seen them all) Sad to see more homeless than tourists. Perhaps it was the time of day? Did not feel safe and couldn't wait to catch the next bus out.... More

This area is supposed to be a throwback to the summer of love and an alternative place to shop in San Francisco. The reality is something totally different. A street full of Junkies and junkie wannabes who think that anything 'alternative' is cool. Someone should tell them it isn't, its just sad. If you go down this area on a... More

They had to have a ballot measure to be able to keep the homeless from camping in store fronts. Used clothing shops, burger joints, head shops, specialty botiques. If you run out of shopping areas to stroll in the city, might as well do this place just to be able to tell the folks back home you went to "the... More

april 2013 great place to vist interesting .the music shops awesome. lots of hoeless thou.even see an old hippie with green glasses

We saw this area as part of the Streets of San Fran cycling tour. This area is where the Summer of Love occurred in 1967 and you can see remnants of that time in both the local residents, the pot-use and the businesses. What we found sad was that the people who actually lived through the Summer of Love in... More

The "Love and Peace era" is 40 years ago -and gone! So there is this only street left in S.F. whith some out of ordinary shops along the road and plenty, plenty, plenty of destroyed and drugged young people sitting on the boardwalk. They do not harm - as they are somewhere in their world, but : Do I want... More