Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California

California

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 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

Spain

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 Mission Dolores, several blocks away from the modern route. Only the southern half is historically part of El Camino Real

El Camino Real (California)

El Camino Real and sometimes associated with Calle Real usually refers to the 600-mile California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions , 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego...

, which connected the missions. At 7.2 mi (11.6 km), it is the city's longest, and one of its oldest streets.

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

Market Street (San Francisco)

Market Street is an important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in...

) before ending at The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.

South of Market, new high rises have risen along the street like the 40-story

Storey

A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...

 Paramount

The Paramount (apartment tower)

The Paramount, or 680 Mission Street at Third is a 40-story rental-apartment tower that is located in South of Market just outside of the Financial District on Mission Street in San Francisco....

, the 26-story 101 Second Street

101 Second Street

101 Second Street is an office tower located in the South of Market district in San Francisco, California on Mission Street. The building was completed in 2000 and has 26 floors with for offices. This is one out of several new highrise projects completed or under construction on Mission Street...

, the 31-story JP MorganChase Building

JP MorganChase Building

The JPMorgan Chase Building is an office building in San Francisco, California, 560-584 Mission Street, on the border between South of Market and the Financial District. Designed by architect César Pelli, the building stands and has about of office space. It also has two levels of underground...

 and the 42-story St. Regis Museum Tower

St. Regis Museum Tower

St. Regis Museum Tower is a highrise in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone Center, PacBell Building and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The 42-storey, tower is bounded by Mission Street, 3rd Streets and is operated by...

. More high rises are planned or are under construction like the Millennium Tower

Millennium Tower (301 Mission Street)

Millennium Tower is a 58-story highrise condominium completed in 2009 in the San Francisco Financial District, South of Market. A mixed-use building, primarily residential, it is the tallest building in San Francisco to include residences. The blue-gray glass, late-modernist tower is bounded by...

, 555 Mission Street

555 Mission Street

555 Mission Street is a 33 story, office tower in the South of Market area of San Francisco, California. Construction of the tower began in 2007 and the tower was finished on September 18, 2008. The building is the first in a new generation of office towers in San Francisco's downtown...

, and the San Francisco Transbay development

San Francisco Transbay development

The San Francisco Transbay development plan consists of three supertall skyscrapers and ten other skyscrapers and highrises proposed in San Francisco. The towers are proposed to fund the replacement of the San Francisco Transbay Terminal in the South of Market neighborhood near the Financial...

.

Mission Street is served 24 hours a day by Muni line 14

San Francisco Municipal Railway

The San Francisco Municipal Railway is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California. In 2006, it served with an operating budget of about $700 million...

, 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 The Embarcadero (San Francisco) The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay, constructed atop an engineered seawall on reclaimed land, and derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar, meaning "to embark"...	Former SR 480 California State Route 480 State Route 480 was a state highway in San Francisco, California, United States, consisting of the elevated double-decker Embarcadero Freeway , the partly elevated Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge and the proposed and unbuilt section in between. The unbuilt section from Doyle Drive to...
				North end of US 101 overlap
			Central Freeway Central Freeway The Central Freeway is a roughly one-mile elevated freeway in San Francisco, California, United States, connecting the Bayshore/James Lick Freeway with the Hayes Valley neighborhood. Most of the freeway is part of US 101, which exits at Mission Street on the way to the Golden Gate Bridge...	Interchange; no entrance ramps
			Huron Avenue	San Francisco City limits terminus mid-block
San Mateo San Mateo County, California San Mateo County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula just south of San Francisco, and north of Santa Clara County. San Francisco International Airport is located at the northern end of the county, and...	Daly City Daly City, California Daly City is the largest city in San Mateo County, California, United States, with a 2010 population of 101,123. Located immediately south of San Francisco, it is named in honor of businessman and landowner John Daly.-History:...		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.