The Roundabout Section 3 Clockwise: Visitacion Valley Greenway to Daly City BART

Section 3: Visitation Valley Greenway to Daly City BART

We continue our quest to walk the complete periphery of San Francisco following
the new Roundabout Crosstown trail. Details below

The Visitation Valley Greenway, a series of contiguous parks with greenhouses, a plaza, community garden and more, on old SF Water Department right-of-way, is perhaps the most beloved previously unknown gem on the Crosstown Trail; please come if you’ve never been, perhaps arriving by T Third St rail. Refresh with a stop in the plaza, perhaps with a coffee from neighboring Mission Blue cafe (where you can buy trail merch), then carry west towards busy Crocker Amazon Park, where you’ll be joined by countless neighborhood walkers, youth soccer and baseball players, pickleballers, and multiple groups practicing traditional Chinese dance. Cross south over Geneva Avenue and be amazed by the neighborhood landmark “Cow House”, where even the Little Library out front is topped by a cow. The trail continues to the west and through magical Cayuga Playground, another once-forgotten now-transformed space, largely the work of one man, longtime caretaker (and totem carver!) Demetrio Braceros. Waiting-to-be-discovered OMI (Ocean View, Merced Heights, Ingleside) comes next; look for retired SFFD Engine Company #33 along the trail; built in 1896 and now a private home, in 1921 it was the last SFFD station to give up horse-drawn wagons. Stop for coffee and homemade treats at the Blue House Cafe.