The ferry from Jack London Square is likely to be a mess; the Eat Real food festival <http://eatrealfest.com> runs from Friday through Sunday, and Jack London will be mobbed. That festival will also soak up all the parking in the area.
I think the OP's big point is not "where are the BART stations?", but rather "can anyone lead us from our originating BART station in the East Bay all the way to Crissy Field?". In my case, I'll be BARTing/biking from the East Bay, but I'm not going to go out to Walnut Creek to do it; that's 20 miles in the opposite direction, and I tend to cut times short anyway. I'll be using my normal technique for getting to the SF waterfront: 1. Bike from West Berkeley to West Oakland BART on 7th Street (West Oakland BART is the closest EB station to SF, it has a large parking lot, and it's five flat miles from my house) 2. Board the train; disembark at Embarcadero BART 3. Follow the Embarcadero (the waterfront road) north and west past Fisherman's Wharf, Aquatic Park, through Fort Mason, along Marina Green west into the Presidio 4. Go all the way out to the tippy-tail west end of Crissy Field (at the foot of the GG Bridge) near the ampitheatre and the café The rule of thumb when riding in the City is: Stay as close as you can to the water. The route is commonly known as the Waterfront Route; I believe it's posted that way, too. There are a number of walk/bike maps for Bay Area cities published by Rufus Graphics; the SF one is called San Francisco Bike Map & Walking Guide. It's recommended by the San Francisco Bike Coalition <http://www.sfbike.org>, who have a PDF available here: San Francisco Bike Map <http://www.sfbike.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SF_Bike_Map_and_Walking_Guide_2014.pdf> http://www.sfbike.org/resources/maps-routes/ SFBC provides a link to Google Maps, but suggests you compare your Google route to the published map. They also have a link to 511's Bike Mapper, which is in a pretty squirrely beta; it refused to generate a route map for this trip, no matter how I modified the search terms. The SF, Oakland and Berkeley maps are commonly available at bike stores in the Bay Area; a Sacramento bike shop might also have them. As for a guide: I plan to arrive at West Oakland BART somewhere around 11:30AM. The Giants are playing at AT&T on Sunday afternoon, so the BART stations from Embarcadero to Civic Center are likely to be packed; it's possible I may be on the platform at West Oakland for awile until I can get on a train. If someone who needs a scout wants to meet me at West Oakland BART (near the ticket machines) or at Embarcadero 30-45 minutes later (in front of the Ferry Building), I'll be on a dark green Raleigh w/chrome lugs, racks front and rear, grey Ortlieb rolltops. Click the name to send an email, and I'll send you my cell number. Peter "Pathfinder" Adler <adle...@mac.com> who has a pathological terror of Not Knowing Where He Is, even when he's in Berkeley, CA/USA On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 9:11:21 AM UTC-7, dstein wrote: > > Hey Matt - The marin headlands ride I'm leading leaves from near the Ferry > Building by the Embarcadero BART which you'll need to pass at some point, > so if you're interested in parking in Walnut Creek (or Oakland even, > Rockridge BART is a decent place to park and only a few blocks from my > house), you can always park and then BART over to SF and join us. > > On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 5:59:01 PM UTC-7, hangtownmatt wrote: >> >> I'm just throwing this out there to see if anybody would be interested in >>> leading some of out-of-towner's to and from the picnic on Sunday. Someone >>> familiar with BART and the bike routes in SF. I only suggest RBW >>> Headquarters as a starting point because I'm thinking this might be a >>> decent place to leave our cars. But really, anywhere outside of SF with >>> safe/free parking might work. Is anybody interested in leading? Are there >>> others who would attend in something like this was organized? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
