PORTOLA district

Transit & Getting Around

Nearby transit includes:

  • 54 Felton bus stop near Gambier & Burrows

  • 44 O’Shaughnessy bus about a 10-minute walk

  • Glen Park BART Station about ~10 minutes by car

Aerial view of a residential neighborhood with houses, trees, a street with parked cars, and a city skyline in the background.

surrounding Neighborhood

General Character

  • The address sits in a quiet residential hillside area with a mix of single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Nearby neighborhoods include:

  • Visitacion Valley – residential with community parks and schools.

  • Portola – known for family homes and the commercial corridor on San Bruno Avenue.

  • The area has historically been more industrial and working-class than many parts of San Francisco, but in recent years it has seen new housing development, park improvements, and community investment.

View of a city skyline with white buildings on rolling hills, a grassy park with basketball courts in the foreground, and trees in the foreground on a clear day.

McLaren Park

Overview

  • Very close to McLaren Park, one of the biggest natural spaces in the Portola District.

  • Size: about 312–313 acres

  • Rank: second-largest park in San Francisco, after Golden Gate Park

  • Established: 1927

  • The park is only a block from Gambier Street, and some parts of the neighborhood border it directly.