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Alcatraz Island was once the most secure federal prison in the U.S., and held notorious inmates like Al Capone. After being decommissioned in 1963, the prison is now a museum, welcoming millions of curious travelers every year.
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- But Anyway – Now onto The Good Stuff!
- When You First Arrive at Alcatraz Island
- Now, Into The Actual Prison…
- My Favourite Part of The Tour
- Can You Look Around The Actual Prison cells?
The first views you’ll get during your Alcatraz experience are actually from the ferry as you leave mainland San Francisco. Get a good spot stood at the sides of the boat (ignore everyone who sits down… they don’t know what they’re doing). You’ll get some incredible shots of the city, as well as the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge too.
The first thing you do when you get off the boat (after you take a selfie at the sign!) is listen to a park ranger give a little presentation and intro speech. It’s worth sticking around for this, it only takes 15 minutes. In these first few shots, you can see me listening to the Park Ranger and familiarising myself with the Alcatraz Prison tour ma...
After about a 10 minute walk up the hill to the big prison building (it’s not too steep… so don’t worry) you enter the prison through an unassuming side door. The first room you get to see is actually the rooms where new arriving prisoners would’ve also walked through. You walk along the medical centre, and alongside the showers where prisoners wou...
My favourite part of the tour was seeing the outdoor recreation yard. That was so bizarre – so don’t miss the part of the audio tour that takes you out there. There I was stood in this yard, on the same ground where some of the most dangerous criminals to have ever lived once stood. There I was looking at the same view they did. Hearing the same so...
Your next stop on the tour is the high security bit of the prison, or ‘solitary’ as they called it. The tour invites you to step inside the cells (which was awesome and frightening all at once) and listen to the kinds of sounds the prisoners would’ve heard. At one point you listen to a prisoner’s own account of solitary, and how he used to cope wit...
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Step back in time and experience the legendary island that has been a Civil War fort, a military prison and one of the most notorious federal penitentiaries in US history.
56,191 reviews. #2 of 1,033 things to do in San Francisco. Historic SitesIslands. Write a review. About. Alcatraz Island was once the most secure federal prison in the U.S., and held notorious inmates like Al Capone. After being decommissioned in 1963, the prison is now a museum, welcoming millions of curious travelers every year.
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