Mission Street

Mission Street

Mission Street between 19th and 20th
Maintained by	San Francisco Department of Public Works
Length	7.2 mi[1] (11.6 km)
North end	The Embarcadero in San Francisco
Major junctions	US 101 in San Francisco I‑280 in San Francisco
South end	Between Huron and Templeton Avenues at Daly City

Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California that runs from the city's southern border to its northeast waterfront. The street and the Mission District through which it runs were named for the Spanish Mission Dolores, several blocks away from the modern route. Only the southern half is historically part of El Camino Real, which connected the missions. At 7.2 mi (11.6 km), it is the city's longest, and one of its oldest streets.^[2]

High rises under construction along Mission Street in the Financial District in 2007

From the south, Mission Street enters the city mid-block between Templeton Avenue in Daly City and Huron Avenue in San Francisco, and continues northeasterly through the working-class Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, before turning north through the colorful Outer Mission and Inner Mission districts.^[3] Near Van Ness Avenue, the road turns northeast again and travels through Mid-Market and South of Market (running parallel to, and a full block south of Market Street) before ending at The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.

Since 2000, between Third Street and Beale Street in the Financial District, several new high rises have risen or are planned to rise along Mission Street, all in the vicinity of the San Francisco Transbay development project: 101 Second Street (2000), JPMorgan Chase Building (2002), The Paramount (2002), St. Regis Museum Tower (2005), 555 Mission Street (2008), Millennium Tower (2009), 535 Mission Street (2014), 350 Mission Street (2015), and the Transbay Tower (2017).

Mission Street is served 24 hours per day by Muni line 14, two BART stations that run below grade in the Inner Mission, and the remainder of the San Francisco BART stations less than a half mile away, notably including those on the Market Street Subway. The street is four lanes.^[4]

Major intersections

County	Location	Destinations	Notes
San Francisco		The Embarcadero	Former SR 480
		US 101 north (Van Ness Avenue) – Golden Gate Bridge	North end of US 101 overlap
		Central Freeway	Interchange; no entrance ramps
		Huron Avenue	San Francisco City limits terminus mid-block
San Mateo	Daly City	Templeton Avenue	Continuation beyond Templeton Avenue

References

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Coordinates: 37°47′37″N 122°23′34″W / 37.79370°N 122.39264°W / 37.79370; -122.39264