BCSWguru said:
anyone have experience with public transit in San Francisco? In particular, riding or getting from the closest train station to Oracle park? Is it walkable?
Eight to go after this.
My parents live in Alameda county, across the Bay, so all my experience getting to Oracle (formerly AT&T, formerly Pac Bell) is coming from there.
From either the Montgomery St or Embarcadero BART stations it's walkable. A tad under a mile. I've done it for a day game, not sure how I'd feel about the walk back after a night game. (I got on at the Dublin/Pleasanton station.)
If you stay in the east bay, you can also take the ferry from either Jack London Square in Oakland or Alameda, unless you're going to a mid-week day game. That drops you off right outside the park, near right field, and it's a beautiful ride on a sunny day. The ferry run starts at Jack London, then stops in Alameda, so you can get more choice of seats if you board there. Plus Alameda is an island and getting there is more involved than getting to Oakland.
OTOH, Alameda is also home to the museum ship USS Hornet, which made the pick up of the Apollo 11 astronauts, if you want to do some other touristy things.
ETA: There's also Muni light rail that runs right by Oracle, but I've never used that.
