SF Halloween street closures: Castro, Cortland, Haight and the Muni lines that reroute
18th Street in the Castro closes from 11 a.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday for Halloween, and the 33 will be rerouted. Bernal Heights, Visitacion Valley, the Haight and Noe Valley also have closures this week.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Mission Dolores Park and the downtown San Francisco skyline on a clear day. Photo: 4300streetcar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
If you're driving or taking Muni in San Francisco this Halloween week, expect several street closures. Here's what the SFMTA has posted.
Castro Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31
18th Street will be closed between Noe and Diamond streets from 11 a.m. Saturday until 1 a.m. Sunday.
The 33 Ashbury/18th Street will be rerouted around the closure. Riders on the 24 Divisadero and 35 Eureka may see delays.
Other closures
Noe Valley Night Market, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.: The 48 Quintara/24th Street will be rerouted.
Cortland Avenue, Bernal Heights: Cortland closes for trick-or-treating on Halloween, and the 24 Divisadero will be rerouted.
River of Life block party on Sunnydale: Noon to 10 p.m. The 8 Bayshore and 56 Rutland will be rerouted.
Further bus send-off on Haight Street: The 7 Haight/Noriega and 37 Corbett will be rerouted.
Real-time Muni arrivals and alerts are at SFMTA.com.
Sources
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