My mother and I both enjoy hiking and we’ve been taking advantage of the beautiful weather here by exploring some areas over on the North Western tip of San Francisco, Lands End. One of my favorites was visiting the remains of these Sutro Baths, which were built in 1896 as the world’s largest swimming pool. How fun do these look??
Seven different pools at Sutro Baths, both fresh and salt water for locals to swim in during the chilly San Francisco summer. At high tide, water from the ocean literally spilled right into the salt water pools. How incredible does this look? Now, only skeletons of the pools remain, and some spooky caves and beautiful hiking trails along the cliffs.
The Sutro Baths are right next to this beautiful Cliff House. This photo is what it looked like before it burned down in 1907 (survived the 1906 earthquake and then tragically burned down a year later!). Incredible, right?

{Images from here}
It looks like this now, took this yesterday from my phone