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Golden Gate Bridge Cams (8 of them!)
(Bridge video starts after the ad, which we have to include in order to access the direct video feed.)
Five different Golden Gate Bridge cams offer a variety of angles and distances for viewing the current conditions on the Bridge. Some of these views will give you dramatic images as the fog rolls in during the afternoon. Some views will also be engulfed by the fog and lose sight of the Bridge when Karl the Fog decides to take center stage.
See also our pages on Webcams in Sausalito. Here’s the list for the Golden Gate:
1. Golden Gate View: Crissy Field Parks Conservancy
The Crissy Field cam shows the Golden Gate Bridge from inside the Bay. You can use sliders at the left and right sides and at the bottom to zoom and aim the camera. This is the best and most dependable view of the Bridge. The sample image above was taken on a clear morning in October, the least foggy time of year on San Francisco Bay.
Insiders Tip: For the best view of the Bridge, place the left side slider in the middle of its range, the bottom slider a little left of center, and the right hand slider about 10% of the way down from the top. From there you can fine tune the aim to get the view you want.
2. Golden Gate Live Feed: Pier 39
The Pier 39 cam is primarily focused on the sea lions resting on the docks there, but if you click on “Go Live” and then on “Control” it gives you a chance to choose any of several pre-set camera angles at the upper right, including a chance to view the Golden Gate Bridge across the Bay.
3. Panoramic San Francisco Bay Views: The Golden Gate
This cam scrolls across views of San Francisco Bay, including the Golden Gate Bridge.
Insiders Tip if you’re on your mobile phone: On mobile the video controls on the screen will allow you to go full-screen, pause and play, cast, control audio etc.
Insiders Tip if you’re on a desktop computer: On this webcam the little almost-a-smiley-face icon at the lower left will say “Panorama” when you roll over it with your cursor. If you click it you can move the camera by “grabbing” the screen. The mouse wheel will zoom in and out.
4. Golden Gate Bridge WebCams: The Ad-Free Toll Plaza Traffic Feed
This is the same video source we use at the top of this screen. In order to bring it to you directly on this page we have to accept the ad that comes before the video. But you can see the live feed ad-free! If you click on this link and then scroll down, you’ll see a current large-format traffic camera view looking north from the Bridge toll plaza at the lower right.
5. The Golden Gate Bridge Live Cam View from the Berkeley Hills
The Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley offers a webcam with this distant view of the Golden Gate Bridge, which covers a wide view all the way from Angel Island to San Francisco.
6. The Golden Gate Bridge as Seen from Tiburon
This view from Tiburon, also more distant, offers especially pretty views on non-foggy evenings. Belvedere is an almost-island across San Francisco Bay from Sausalito. Note: The feed is labeled as coming from Belvedere, which is adjacent to Tiburon, but the camera location is in the Tiburon hills above Belvedere.
7. The View from Treasure Island
This webcam offers a view from Treasure Island (accessed via the San Francisco-Oakland Bat Bridge). It scrolls and zooms in and out, so you’ll get both the San Francisco skyline and the bridge. (Video courtesy of Mersea Restaurant.)
8. The Golden Gate as Seen from the Top of the Mark
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco has webcams that look across the City to the Golden Gate. Camera 1 view shows the Golden Gate.
