Looking for a safe place to go trick-or-treating this year? More than two dozen streets across San Francisco will be closed to traffic, so kids and parents can rest easy while hunting for candy.
In the Mission, Shotwell Street between 22nd and 23rd streets is closed to traffic from 5 to 10 p.m.
Enjoy these other car-free spaces on Halloween, with a full list below. Data provided by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
Downtown 'Nightmare on Front Street'
San Francisco’s first “Entertainment Zone,” this free event on Front Street between California and Sacramento streets features live music, Halloween-themed games, horror movie screenings, and costume contests from 2 to 10 p.m. at 245 Front St.
Balboa Park
Otsego Avenue between Santa Ynez and Santa Ysabel avenues is closed to traffic from 6:30 to 10 p.m.
Bernal Heights
Celebrate Cortland Halloween. These streets are closed from 5 to 9 p.m.:
- Cortland Avenue between Bennington and Gates streets;
- Moultrie Street between Cortland and Eugenia avenues;
- Anderson Street between Eugenia and Jarboe avenues;
- Ellsworth Street between Cortland and Eugenia avenues
- Intersections along Cortland Avenue closed at Wool, Andover, Moultrie, Anderson, and Ellsworth.
Fillmore
Pierce Street between Turk and O’Farrell streets is closed to cars from 3 to 9 p.m.
Glen Park
Chenery Street between Elk and Diamond streets is closed to cars from 5 to 9 p.m.
Randall Street between Whitney and Harper streets is closed to cars from 4 to 9 p.m.
Sanchez Street between Randall and 30th streets is closed to cars from 4 to 9 p.m.
Hayes Valley
Visit Patricia’s Green at Fell and Octavia streets from 4 to 7 p.m. for the Halloween Stroll and Trick or Treat Trail. Outdoor movie showing of “Inside Out 2” at 7 p.m.
Laurel Heights/Presidio Heights
Commonwealth Avenue and Jordan Avenue between California Street and Geary Boulevard are closed to traffic from 5 to 8 p.m.
Iris Avenue between Mayfair Drive and Euclid Street is closed to traffic from 4 to 10 p.m.
Lake Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues is closed to traffic from 3:30 to 9 p.m.
Lower Haight
Waller Street between Steiner and Scott streets is closed to cars from 5 to 11 p.m.
Marina
Avila Street between Chestnut and Prado streets is closed to traffic from mid-afternoon to 9 p.m.
Midtown Terrace
Dellbrook Avenue from Olympia Way to Olympia Way (no, that’s not a typo) is closed from 5 to 9 p.m.
NoPa
Grove Street between Baker and Central Avenue is closed to traffic from 3 to 10 p.m.
Lyon Street between Fulton and Hayes streets is closed to traffic from 3 to 10 p.m.
North Beach
Leavenworth street between Filbert and Lombard streets is closed to cars from 5 to 10 p.m.
Dolores Heights
Fair Oaks Street between 22nd and 26th streets is closed to traffic from 5 to 8:30 p.m.
Outer Sunset
36th Avenue between Quintara and Rivera streets is closed to traffic from 3:30 to 9 p.m.
42nd and 43rd avenues between Judah and Kirkham streets are closed to traffic from 2 to 10:30 p.m.
45th Avenue between Pacheco and Quintara streets is closed to traffic from 4 to 10 p.m.
St. Francis Wood
Terrace Drive between Portola Drive and Santa Clara Avenue is closed to traffic from 2 to 10 p.m.
Sunnyside
Hearst Street between Edna and Congo streets is closed to traffic from 4 to 8 p.m.
Visitacion Valley
Sunnydale Avenue between Sawyer and Hahn streets is closed to traffic from 2 to 10 p.m.
Pretty sure you’re missing Belvedere in Cole Valley
For the longest time i thought i was living in the Mission district, i thought Dolores st was the separation btwn Noe Valley and the Mission ;then i found out recently that Guerrero was part of Noe valley so i thought i was now a Noe Valley resident ; and today i read in Mission Local that i could be living in Dolores Heights..!?! is there such a thing as Dolores Heights ?
Also Shotwell Street between 19th and 23rd Street in the Mission has a permit and is closed to cars between 5-10PM this year!
West Portal has no closures?
Fair Oaks is in Noe Valley, not the Outer Mission.
According to the maps, Fair Oaks is in Dolores Heights.
Fair Oaks St. Halloween Street Fair was the GrandWitch of all the street halloween parties maybe. I am a long-time resident renter here, attending each year since before 2001.
Last year 2023, was bigger than ever and still festive and sweet and exciting, Amazing house decorations. A cool roof-deck DJ for ‘family friendly’ dancing with a sweet set list of songs from different eras. And people could also still greet each other,
walking the street was still possible, big happy crowds, and just a few vendors. 2024? Tonight, I guess organizers done BLEW UP this cool tradition. A Club-styled DJ Blasting at 120 dB (deafening for children, wtf?) a huge food truck set up and blocking the middle of Fair Oaks creating a bottleneck of humanity in costumes and strollers. Adults costumed as wild animals desperately seeking / saying, Where are the toilets? And this= Not much trick-or-treating going on, few houses open to provide treats or to hang out with people walking by. Got Too Loud,
Too commercialized, a victim of its own success,
For sure this event requires city permits that have to be paid for which means somebodies in the F.O. neighborhood association decided to allow (illegal) damaging noise levels? And Double sized food truck? I wonder why.