Sep 17, 2025
5 Min.
Step back into San Francisco's psychedelic 1960s with our free GPS guided tour. Covering 24 locations in the Haight-Ashbury and beyond.
At Sulu, we create GPS-guided audio tours that bring each city to life with storytelling, history, and local culture. We’re currently in Beta, which means every tour is completely free to enjoy - no credit card required. Just download the Sulu app, enter the access code for your chosen tour, and head to the starting point with your mobile device. From there, GPS will guide you along the route, and audio will play automatically as you arrive at each stop.
The 1960s were more than a decade - in San Francisco, they were a revolution. A new sound crackled out of dance halls, walls dripped with kaleidoscopic posters, and whole neighborhoods pulsed with ideas about freedom, peace, and community. For one brief, blazing moment, San Francisco was the center of the universe, and the ideals of the counterculture - music, art, protest, and experimentation - spilled into every park, street corner, and Victorian flat.
Walking the city today, it’s hard to imagine just how alive it felt in 1967. But some places still carry that charge - standing in front of them, you can almost hear the echoes. Our tour follows those echoes, threading together the houses, parks, and street corners where the music spilled out, the poems were shouted, and the ideals of a generation took root. It’s less a history lesson than a chance to step into the same current that once swept through San Francisco - and feel it for yourself.
On this citywide tour of San Francisco's psychedilc 60's, you’ll trace the footsteps of a music and counterculture revolution, visiting iconic locations across the city. From your starting point at Fisherman’s Wharf to a finale walking tour through the legendary streets of Haight-Ashbury, you’ll experience the stories, sights, and spirit that defined an era. Plan to spend about 4–5 hours soaking it all in - a journey best done with wheels, unless you’re truly up for a marathon walk! Short on time? No problem - our Haight-Ashbury tour gives you a focused look at many of the highlights from this adventure.
From 1966 to 1968, this Victorian at 710 Ashbury was the Grateful Dead’s communal home - a place where they lived, rehearsed, and threw legendary parties. This wasn’t just the Dead’s house - it was the heart of the Haight, a place where the neighborhood’s music, energy, and ideals all came together.
In January 1967, nearly 20,000 people gathered in Golden Gate Park for the Human Be-In - an event designed to unite the city’s scattered countercultural tribes into one visible movement. On stage, Allen Ginsberg led the crowd in mantras, Timothy Leary delivered his famous call to ‘Turn on, tune in, drop out,’ and bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane gave their music away for free. For one afternoon, the counterculture’s ideals - community, rebellion, and transcendence - were not just imagined, but embodied in flesh and sound.
Janis Joplin’s flat doesn’t look extraordinary from the outside - just another modest San Francisco apartment. But inside, the air was thick with cigarette smoke, bottles of Southern Comfort on the floor, and a voice so raw it rattled the plaster. Friends remembered her strumming her guitar, belting out blues until the walls shook with laughter and music. From these humble rooms, she carried that fire onto the stages of the Fillmore and the Avalon, where her voice would stop audiences in their tracks. Out of unassuming apartments like this, legends weren’t just born - they were forged
To follow this history means weaving through the streets of the Haight, past corners where head shops sold incense and underground newspapers, past boutiques that set the style of a generation, past crash pads that blurred music, politics, and daily life into one restless experiment. Each block tells a story; each house whispers of the Summer of Love.
Spend a few hours or the entire day exploring 24 locations throughout the psychedelic heart of San Francisco. Part history lesson and part time machine, you’ll feel the strange electricity of a city that once believed anything was possible, as you visit iconic locations like:
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Just click this link and get instant access our GPS -guided walking tour, including 24 stops, and audio that shares the stories and history that will transport you back to the Summer of Love! While we're in Beta the our is 100% free - no credit card required!
Have More Time in San Francisco? Continue exploring The City with more of our free self-guided walking tours! Stroll through the lush gardens and hidden lakes of Golden Gate Park, follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation on our Literary San Francisco Tour, or explore Haight Asbury with this historic tour. With Sulu’s free tours, you can experience the many sides of San Francisco - at your own pace, in your own way.
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