San Francisco Street Map Poster

San Francisco famously imposed a grid on a peninsula of steep hills, and that collision is exactly what makes its street map so striking. This printable city map shows the relentless rectangular grid running straight up and over Nob Hill, Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill, sliced by the great diagonal of Market Street where two grids meet at an angle. The long rectangle of Golden Gate Park reaches toward the ocean, the Embarcadero curves around the bay, and the bridges anchor the tip of the peninsula.

The way the orderly grid ignores the terrain beneath it gives a street map of San Francisco an almost defiant geometry, and the diagonal of Market Street provides a bold central axis for the composition. As a minimalist line drawing it makes elegant, instantly recognisable wall art.

It is a beloved print for a San Franciscan, a Bay Area transplant, or anyone who has ridden a cable car over those hills. Explore our wider set of United States city maps, or hang it beside the Seattle map poster for two West Coast cities together. Every San Francisco city map is a free, high-resolution, printable download.