Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park offers a unique experience for aviation enthusiasts. The prime location provides an excellent vantage point to witness San Francisco's flight landings and takeoffs. The park's amenities and comfortable viewing spots make it an ideal spot for plane spotting. Whether you're a local or a visitor, watching the planes against the backdrop of the bay is an unforgettable experience. Don't miss out!

Amazing views. You can watch flights taking off and landing all day along.
Theres a nice walk way. There are benches. You will see an huge parking lot with empty spaces but you can't use them. They are reserved for the hotel guests. So, the parking is limited(restricted to 2hours) but you can park in the streets opposite to the park.
This is my regular wait spot when I go to pickup anyone from the airport. It's about 6-7mins from the airport.
We also had a small birthday picnic and it was wonderful. Definitely would recommend to checkout this spot!

It’s a great spot to watch the take off and landing in SF! Watched it for a good hour without getting bored haha

Fantastic spot for plain spotting. Has a 2hr parking limit. Private land though, and you absolutely cannot feed the bird's. They are flight hazards. Very windy too. Bring a jacket. 3mins from SFO. Cool spot.

Very beautiful walk...sfo airport is right across and you can see the planes landing and taking off. Nice breeze beautiful view...there is a Starbucks too and public benches to enjoy it facing thr ocean

If you love watching planes, this is a great viewing spot for SFO! There's a walking path that follows the bay further south, with a Starbucks on the way located in the Marriott.

The parking lot is small and tends to be full, so we usually park across the street towards New England Lobster and have happy hour there!

Great plane spotting place. A great view of all the landings and takeoffs. Also a great place to exercise or just admire the view. There is exercise equipment near the Marriott hotel. The parking is very limited though. But it is worth the wait. Also, when you walk farther north there is barbed wire separating your view on Runways 1R/1L. But everything else is great.

Nice place for plane spotting for long runways of SFO. A walk along the park offers nice view of birds and nearby wetland too. It can be windy most of the time.

A perfect place to watch planes taking off from and landing at San Francisco International Airport. A serene walking trail, beautiful views of the Bay, and the simmering twilight sky make this park unique.

Pretty picturesque views of the shoreline/ocean
as well as bridges 🌉 in the far distance

The sound of the airplanes is consistent and loud, you can hear them taking off often
And if you enjoy watching them take off and land, you can do that here as well

This would be a lovely place to bring a dog for a walk (although poor doggies, their ears are more sensitive than ours ! 👂)

There is a paved pathway that goes about a half mile as well as some benches along the way for sitting and having a snack/drink/rest

Beautiful flowers and plants surround the pathway

Beautiful Park. Waited here for my husband's fight to arrive in SFO so I didn't have to circle the airport round a bout needlessly.

Good place to catch planes landing and taking off. Please don't block the road though. The road is the exit for guests at Marriot.

I would say it's a least known place in San Francisco. It's a nice , calm park near the beautiful ocean and the best part if runway view.

You just see flights landing and taking off. I found it a really different experience to see the airplane Shadow's in the water just passing by.

this might be the best place for people who love to watch how airplane take off. this location could see all four runways. the parking lot only could park up to 2 hours. anyway, I love this park.

Very beautiful and relaxing place, perfect for walking or jogging. Full of aquatic birds, and you can see planes landing and taking off without noise.

It’s not only good for plane watching, but also birds watching. Came here in the evening, before our red eye flight back to NYC. It was low tide , and lots of birds. Should have brought my DLSR and 300mm lens, which I will next time we visit SF. Kind of crowded in the weekend though, lot was full and had to park on a street one long block away.

Nice place to park free, walk along the shore and view the SFO airport in the distance while waiting to pick up an arriving passenger.

Beautiful view of the bay and a great place to view air planes coming and going

I love this place every afternoon, you can find many flowers in the spring.

Great spot if you have to wait on the way to airport plus you get a view of planes landing and taking off. Only been there at night and there were a handful of folks waiting and plane watching from their cars.