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{{short description|Thoroughfare in San Francisco, California}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox street
| name = Mission Street
| image = Mission District San Francisco.jpg
| caption = Mission Street between 19th and 20th
| namesake     = [[Mission San Francisco de Asís|Mission Dolores]]
| maint        = [[Daly City, California|City of Daly City]]<br/>[[San Francisco Department of Public Works]]
| map          =
| length_mi    = 
| length_ref   = 
| established  =
| part_of      = {{Jct|state=CA|SR|82}} in [[Daly City, California|Daly City]]<br />{{Jct|state=CA|US|101|dir1=northbound}} from the [[Central Freeway]] to [[Van Ness Avenue]] in [[San Francisco]]
| direction_a  = South
| terminus_a   = {{Jct|state=CA|SR|82|name1=El Camino Real}} at the [[Colma, California|Colma]]–[[Daly City, California|Daly City]] border
| direction_b  = North
| terminus_b   = [[The Embarcadero (San Francisco)|The Embarcadero]] in [[San Francisco]]
| junction     = {{Jct|state=CA|SR|82|name1=San Jose Avenue}} in [[Daly City, California|Daly City]]<br/>{{Jct|state=CA|I|280}} in [[San Francisco]]<br />{{Jct|state=CA|US|101}} in [[San Francisco]]
| metro        ={{rint|bart}} [[16th Street Mission station|16th Street Mission]]<br />{{rint|bart}} [[24th Street Mission station|24th Street Mission]]
}}
'''Mission Street''' is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in [[Daly City, California|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 [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Mission Dolores]], several blocks away from the modern route. Only the southern half is historically part of [[El Camino Real (California)|El Camino Real]], which connected the missions. Part of Mission Street in Daly City is signed as part of [[California State Route 82|State Route 82]] (SR 82).

==Alignment==
[[File:1853 U.S.C.S. Map of San Francisco, California ^ Vicinity - Geographicus - SanFrancisco3-uscs-1853.jpg|thumb|left|upright|1853 United States Coast Survey map of San Francisco; Mission Plank Road can be seen connecting Mission Dolores with Yerba Buena.]]
From the south, Mission Street begins as a continuation of SR 82/El Camino Real at the [[Colma, California|Colma]]-Daly City border, just south of San Pedro Road. Mission Street then runs north to the [[Top of the Hill, Daly City, California|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 District, San Francisco|Excelsior]], and [[Bernal Heights]] neighborhoods, before turning north through the colorful [[Mission District|Outer Mission]] and [[Mission District|Inner Mission]] districts.<ref name="AAAVIA">{{cite news | title=San Francisco's Mission Districts | url=http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/mission_district03.asp | work=Via Magazine | date=March 2003 | access-date=2010-02-01}}</ref>  Near [[Van Ness Avenue (San Francisco)|Van Ness Avenue]], the road turns northeast again and travels through [[Mid-Market, San Francisco|Mid-Market]] and [[South of Market]] (running parallel to, and a full block south of [[Market Street (San Francisco)|Market Street]]) before ending at [[Embarcadero, San Francisco|The Embarcadero]] in downtown San Francisco.<ref>{{cite news |author=Carl Nolte |author-link=Carl Nolte |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/A-trip-down-Mission-the-most-San-Franciscan-of-10637500.php  |title=A trip down Mission, the most San Franciscan of streets |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=November 26, 2016 |access-date=2018-10-12 }}</ref>

==History==
[[File:555 Mission Street construction 2007-10-27.JPG|thumb|right|upright|High rises under construction along Mission Street in the Financial District in 2007]]
Mission Bay and Mission Dolores were connected to the former village of [[Yerba Buena, California|Yerba Buena]], in the northeastern corner of modern San Francisco, via the Mission [[Plank Road]], a {{convert|3.25|mi|adj=on}} long toll road extending from Kearny/Third to Fifteenth. The franchise for the Mission Plank Road was granted in November 1850 and the Plank Road was completed by the following Spring at a cost of {{USD|96000|1850|round=-3}}; tolls were 50 cents for a horse and cart, and one dollar for a four-horse team. The Mission alignment was selected because Market had a high ridge between Second and Fifth; although a cut was still required for Mission, it was less extensive. The Plank Road used a bridge to cross a swamp at Mission and Seventh; the bridge was intended to rest on piles, but piles were sunk to {{convert|80|ft}} deep without reaching bottom, so a floating bridge was used instead. A parallel plank road was completed along [[Folsom Street]] to stave off potential competition from a free road along Market; however, a high tide in 1854 destroyed the Folsom Plank Road by floating off the planks.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcityofs00hitt/page/150 |title=A history of the city of San Francisco; and incidentally of the state of California |chapter=IV. The Golden Era, § 73. Plank Road |last=Hittell |first=John Shertzer |date=1878 |publisher=A. L. Bancroft & Company |location=San Francisco |pages=151–153 |access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>

Since 2000, between Third Street and Beale Street in the [[Financial District, San Francisco|Financial District]], several new high rises have been erected along Mission Street, all in the vicinity of the [[San Francisco Transbay development]] project: [[101 Second Street]] (2000), [[JPMorgan Chase Building (San Francisco)|JPMorgan Chase Building]] (2002), [[The Paramount, San Francisco|The Paramount]] (2002), [[St. Regis Museum Tower]] (2005), [[555 Mission Street]] (2008), [[Millennium Tower (San Francisco)|Millennium Tower]] (2009), [[535 Mission Street]] (2014), [[350 Mission Street]] (2015), and the [[Salesforce Tower]] (2017).

==Transportation==
The Mission Street portion in San Francisco is served 24 hours per day by the [[San Francisco Municipal Railway]] [[14 Mission]] [[Trolleybuses in San Francisco|trolleybus]], two [[Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]] stations that run below grade in the [[Mission District|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 wide.<ref>{{cite web | title=Route description of 14 Mission | url=http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.sfmta?rted=14 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918205333/http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.sfmta?rted=14 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-09-18 | publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency | date=2011 | access-date=21 February 2011 }}</ref>

The [[Salesforce Transit Center]], which replaced the [[Transbay Terminal]], straddles several blocks between Mission and Howard. It is the western terminus for several [[AC Transit]] bus lines via the [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge]], and it will be the future northern terminus of [[Caltrain]] and the [[California High-Speed Rail Authority]]. From the completion of the Bay Bridge in 1936 until the 1950s, it was also the western terminus for [[Key System]] commuter rail service.
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==Major intersections==
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{{CAint
|county=San Mateo
|cspan=4
|location=Colma
|location2=Daly City
|type=concur
|mile=0
|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|82|name1=El Camino Real}}
|notes=South end of Mission Street; south end of SR 82 overlap; continuation into [[Colma, California|Colma]]
}}
{{CAint
|location=Daly City
|lspan=3
|mile=1.2
|road=John Daly Boulevard, Hillside Boulevard
|notes=
}}
{{CAint
|type=concur
|mile=1.3
|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|82|name1=San Jose Avenue}}
|notes=North end of SR 82 overlap
}}
{{CAint
|mile=1.6
|road=Templeton Avenue
|notes=Daly City city limits terminus mid-block
}}
{{CAint
|indep_city=San Francisco
|lspan=6
|mile=1.7
|road=Huron Avenue
|notes=San Francisco city limits terminus mid-block
}}
{{CAint
|mile=5.5
|road=24th Street
|notes=Serves [[24th Street Mission station]]
}}
{{CAint
|mile=6.4
|road=16th Street
|notes=Serves [[16th Street Mission station]]
}}
{{CAint
|type=concur
|mile=6.8
|road={{Jct|state=CA|US|101|name1=[[Central Freeway]]}}
|notes=Interchange; no entrance ramps; south end of US 101 north overlap
}}
{{CAint
|type=concur
|mile=7.0
|road={{Jct|state=CA|US|101|name1=[[Van Ness Avenue (San Francisco)|Van Ness Avenue]]|city1=Golden Gate Bridge}}
|notes=North end of US 101 north overlap
}}
{{CAint
|mile=9.0
|road= [[The Embarcadero (San Francisco)|The Embarcadero]]
|notes=North end of Mission Street; former [[California State Route 480|SR 480]]
}}
{{Jctbtm|keys=concur}}

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{Commons category-inline|Mission Street (San Francisco)|Mission Street}}

{{Streets in San Francisco}}

[[Category:Streets in San Francisco]]
[[Category:Mission District, San Francisco]]
[[Category:Streets in San Mateo County, California]]