Located in San Francisco’s famous Fisherman Wharf neighborhood is the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Start your journey at the 20,000-square feet visitor center that is filled with exhibits of San Francisco’s waterfront history, which essentially gives you a crash course on the area. Prep your cameras and move onto the Aquatic Park cove and beach for a view of the San Francisco Bay that is worth immortalizing. Maritime enthusiasts will revel in the largest collection of historical ships for your viewing pleasure at the Hyde Street Pier. Among them, there are four ships available to visitors and that includes Balclutha (1887), Eureka (1890), C. A. Thayer (1895) and Hercules (1907). At any time of the day, there will also be opportunities for you to meet riggers, shipwrights and volunteers who will delightfully display skills of the maritime traders then. Get your family together for an amazing jam-packed day full of activities at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park!