Mission Street

Mission Street
Maintained by:	San Francisco Department of Public Works
Length:	7.2 mi (11.6 km)
North end:	The Embarcadero in San Francisco
Major junctions:	US 101 in San Francisco I-280 in San Francisco
South end:	Between Huron and Templeton Avenues at Daly City

Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California that runs from the city's southern border to its northeast corner. The street and the 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. At 7.2 mi (11.6 km), it is the city's longest, and one of its oldest streets.

The 560 Mission Street Plaza is adjacent to the JP MorganChase Building.

From the south, Mission Street enters the city mid-block between Templeton Avenue in Daly City and Huron Avenue in San Francisco, and continues north through the Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, Bernal Heights, Outer Mission, Inner Mission, and Downtown neighborhoods. From there the road turns northeast and travels through the South of Market neighborhood (running a full block south of Market Street) before ending at The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.

South of Market, new high rises have risen along the street like the 40-story Paramount, the 26-story 101 Second Street, the 31-story JP MorganChase Building and the 42-story St. Regis Museum Tower. More high rises are planned or are under construction like the Millennium Tower, 555 Mission Street, and the San Francisco Transbay development.

Mission Street is served 24 hours a day by Muni line 14, two BART stations that below grade in the Inner Mission, and the remainder of the San Francisco BART stations less than a half mile away. The street is four lanes.

Major intersections

County	Location	Postmile	Destinations	Notes
San Francisco			The Embarcadero	Former SR 480
			US 101 north (Van Ness Avenue) – Golden Gate Bridge	North end of US 101 overlap
			Central Freeway	Interchange; no entrance ramps
			Huron Avenue	San Francisco City limits terminus mid-block
San Mateo	Daly City		Templeton Avenue	Continuation beyond Templeton Avenue

Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.