Which is the best cable car to take in San Francisco?

Most San Franciscans will tell you that the Powell-Hyde line is the most exciting trip to take and we wholeheartedly agree. The Powell-Hyde Street line starts at the cable car turnaround at Powell Street and Market Street (map).



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California Line (Red) It's the least busy of the three. It's also full of thrills as it climbs the steep hill from California and Market to the top of Nob Hill, then runs back downhill to Van Ness.

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Powell-Hyde: Leaves from Market and Powell, passes Union Square, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and Lombard Street, ending at Ghirardelli Square.

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Powell/Hyde Line: Union Square, Lombard Street to Fisherman's Wharf. The Powell/Hyde line is one of two cable cars in San Francisco that run from Union Square to Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf.

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... the Ba Na Hills Cable Car, Sunworld , Golden Hands Bridge and all the other attractions at the top of the mountain.

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The result has become known colloquially as the most crooked street in the city. Thanks to its interesting structural approach to the problem of traveling downhill, this location has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the city.

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Two of San Francisco's three cable car lines connect the Union Square area downtown with Fisherman's Wharf. The Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde lines share the most-photographed cable car turntable, where Powell meets Market Street.

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Cable cars are often misidentified as 'trolleys', but that term refers specifically to the trolley pole used by streetcars to get power from an overhead wire (hence streetcars are often called trolleys, correctly). Cable cars use no overhead wire, and have no trolley poles.

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Cable cars include chair, cabin and gondola lifts. A fundamental difference here is that you can keep your skis or snowboard on while in the chair lift, but they have to be unstrapped while in the cabin lift. However, there is more to differentiate: Cable cars, for example, operate either in pendulum or orbital mode.

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The cable car routes are the Powell-Hyde line, the Powell-Mason line and the California line. Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines stop at the museum.

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PIER 39 is the ideal safe outing. The pier is an open-air marketplace that monitors guest count to ensure everyone has space to socially distance.

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Best areas to stay in San Francisco
  • Union Square, best area to stay in San Francisco.
  • Fisherman's Wharf, one of the best neighborhoods to stay in SF.
  • North Beach, one of the most popular places to sleep in San Francisco.
  • Marina District, the cheapest area to stay in San Francisco.
  • SoMa.


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Cable cars average about an accident a month and routinely rank among the most accident-prone mass transportation modes in the country per vehicle mile traveled annually, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Over the last 10 years, city officials have reported 126 accidents injuring 151 people.

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