The original post: /r/travel by /u/TrashFearless4730 on 2025-03-13 03:48:19.

So I’ve heard (and mostly ignored) the warnings about visiting San Francisco because my husband and I really wanna visit Northern Cali and there’s stuff we’d like to see in SF. However, I do want to heed the advice I’ve seen about car break-ins there. So really I want do Golden Gate Park, Fisherman’s Wharf, Alcatraz, and Muir Woods. We really only want to do the Napa Valley Wine Train in Napa. Also want to take a short-ish ride down the Pacific Coast Highway.

So what would be the best way to do this (because I want to rent a car for the ride to Napa and the PCH of course). I’m thinking of doing a few of days in San Francisco (prob in Nob Hill or Fisherman’s Wharf based on my Reddit reads) with no car then renting a car to head to Napa for a couple of nights. Alternatively, we could stay in Napa and just drive to SF for the things we want to see each day, but that seems less can financially sound, and what would parking be like in those places? Should I stay in SF the entire time and just rent a car for the one day we go to Napa? Other suggestions?