Mission Street

Mission Street

Mission Street between 19th and 20th
Maintained by	City of Daly City San Francisco Department of Public Works
South end	SR 82 (El Camino Real) at the Colma–Daly City border
Major junctions	SR 82 (San Jose Avenue) in Daly City I-280 in San Francisco US 101 in San Francisco
North end	The Embarcadero in San Francisco

Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in Daly City and San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront. The street and San Francisco's 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. Part of Mission Street in Daly City is signed as part of State Route 82 (SR 82).

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

From the south, Mission Street begins as a continuation of SR 82/El Camino Real at the Colma-Daly City border, just south of San Pedro Road. Mission Street then runs north to the Top of the Hill district, where SR 82 splits as San Jose Avenue to the northeast, and Mission Street continues north-northeast. It then crosses the San Francisco city limits mid-block between Templeton Avenue in Daly City and Huron Avenue in San Francisco. Mission Street then turns back northeast through the working-class Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, before turning north through the colorful Outer Mission and Inner Mission districts.^[1] 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 Salesforce Tower (2017).

The Mission Street portion in San Francisco 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.^[2]

Major intersections

County	Location	Destinations	Notes
San Mateo	Colma–Daly City border	SR 82 (El Camino Real)	South end of Mission Street; south end of SR 82 overlap; continuation into Colma
	Daly City	John Daly Boulevard; Hillside Boulevard
		SR 82 (San Jose Avenue)	North end of SR 82 overlap
		Templeton Avenue	Daly City city limits terminus mid-block
San Francisco		Huron Avenue	San Francisco city limits terminus mid-block
		US 101 (Central Freeway)	Interchange; no entrance ramps; south end of US 101 north overlap
		US 101 (Van Ness Avenue) – Golden Gate Bridge	North end of US 101 north overlap
		The Embarcadero	North end of Mission Street; former SR 480

References

Streets in San Francisco
Numbered streets	Third Street 16th Street 19th Avenue 22nd Street 24th Street 49-Mile Scenic Drive
North–south streets	Castro Street Clay Street Fillmore Street Grant Avenue Great Highway Junipero Serra Boulevard Kearny Street Mission Street Montgomery Street Octavia Boulevard Polk Street Skyline Boulevard Stockton Street Stanyan Street Van Ness Avenue Vermont Street
East–west streets	Broadway California Street Filbert Street Geary Boulevard Haight Street Lincoln Way Lombard Street Union Street
Diagonal streets	Alemany Boulevard Don Chee Way The Embarcadero Market Street Columbus Avenue New Montgomery Street
Alleyways	Balmy Alley Belden Place Clarion Alley Jack Kerouac Alley Macondray Lane Maiden Lane
San Francisco place names etymologies

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