Lombard Street (San Francisco)

Lombard Street

Lombard Street in 2020
Part of	US 101 between Richardson Ave./Broderick St. and Van Ness Avenue
Namesake	Philadelphia's Lombard Street
Maintained by	San Francisco DPW Caltrans (US 101 portion)
Coordinates	37°48′07″N 122°25′08″W / 37.80194°N 122.41889°W / 37.80194; -122.41889
West end	Presidio Boulevard
Major junctions	US 101 Fillmore Street US 101 Columbus Avenue Telegraph Hill Boulevard Gap in route Montgomery Street
East end	The Embarcadero

Interactive map of the crooked section of Lombard Street

Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill). Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year and up to 17,000 per day on busy summer weekends, as of 2015.^[1]

San Francisco surveyor Jasper O'Farrell named the road after Lombard Street in Philadelphia.^[2]