Great Highway Hours and Schedule

Promenade Schedule

The Great Highway is a spectacular park promenade along Ocean Beach providing safe play space on wide roads for pedestrians, cyclists, and all other forms of recreation, for all visitors on weekends:

• Fridays – starting at noon
• Saturdays – all day
• Sundays – all day
• Mondays – ending at 6 AM

Holidays - All day (see full list of recognized holidays below)

• Memorial Day – Monday, May 27, 2024
• Juneteenth National Independence Day – Wednesday, June 19, 2024
• Independence Day – Thursday, July 4, 2024
• Labor Day – Monday, September 2, 2024
• Indigenous Peoples Day, Italian American Heritage Day – Monday, October 14, 2024
• Veterans Day – Friday, November 11, 2024
• Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 28, and Friday, November 29, 2024
• Christmas – Wednesday, December 25, 2024
• New Year’s Day – Wednesday, January 1, 2025
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Monday, January 20, 2025
• Presidents’ Day – Monday, February 17, 2025
• Memorial Day – Monday, May 26, 2025
• Juneteenth National Independence Day – Thursday, June 19, 2025
• Independence Day – Friday, July 4, 2025
• Labor Day – Monday, September 1, 2025
• Indigenous Peoples Day, Italian American Heritage Day – Monday, October 13, 2024
• Veterans Day – Tuesday, November 11, 2025
• Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 27, and Friday, November 28, 2025
• Christmas – Thursday, December 25, 2025

Note: pedestrian crossing of the roadway is allowed during vehicle periods at the seven signalized crossings.

Vehicular Access Schedule

Vehicular access to the Upper Great Highway is open on:

• Monday – starting at 6 AM
• Tuesday – all day
• Wednesday – all day
• Thursday – all day
• Friday – ending at 12 noon

This schedule started on August 16, 2021. Proposition K , approved by San Francisco voters in November 2024, creates a public open recreation space and permanently prohibits vehicular access along a two-mile stretch of the Upper Great Highway —between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard—giving people a safe and scenic space to walk, bike, skate and enjoy views of the Pacific Ocean. The permanent change is anticipated to occur in spring 2025.