Boat required
Alcatraz Inside Access Ferry and Audio Tour with Night Option
A ferry to a decommissioned federal prison, timed so you leave in the dark.
4.0300 reviews on Viator
San Francisco2h–4h
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San Francisco / 15 listed
Crime tours in San Francisco
Documented criminal history walked in the streets it happened in. History, not true-crime theatre.
Written by us
Our picks
Dead history
Colma Cemetery Belt Half-Day Tour
A town where the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one. Municipal fact, not a turn of phrase.
San Francisco4h
15 on Viator
Every crime tour we found
Crime tours
Best of SF: Alcatraz Island, Ferry, & 72h Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour
Longest of the 15
$12072h
Crime tours
Free cancellation
San Francisco Alcatraz App Guided Tour with Cruise and Jail House
1h shorter than the median
$761h–2h
Crime tours
Full-Day Guided Tour of San Francisco with Alcatraz
5h longer than the median
$1547h–8h
Crime tours
Private 2-Hour Alcatraz App Guided Tour
1h shorter than the median
$951h–2h
Crime tours
Alcatraz Day Tour and San Francisco Bay Cruise
$40 above the median
$1392h–4h
Crime tours
Free cancellation
San Francisco Ghost & True Crime Tour
1h longer than the median
$603h
Crime tours
Free cancellation
Fisherman’s Wharf & Pier 39 Food Tour - Includes Full Meal, 3 hrs
1h longer than the median
$1153h
Crime tours
Official Alcatraz Tour with Golden Gate Bridge Bay Cruise
1h longer than the median
$1483h–5h
Crime tours
Free cancellation
Hippie Haight-Ashbury and True Crime Tour
Cheapest quarter of 15
$442h
Crime tours
Alcatraz Inside Tour and All Day Hop On Hop Off with Night Option
$42 above the median
$1412h–5h
Crime tours
Official Alcatraz Tour with Bonus Bike Rental in San Francisco
$992h–3h
Crime tours
Free cancellation
San Francisco Sightseeing Bay Cruise Tour with Pintours App
1h shorter than the median
$661h–2h
How this list is made
Cemeteries, crypts, plague history, disaster history, funerary trade. Everything above meets that test. The ranking notes on each entry — shortest, cheapest quarter, better reviewed than most — are calculated across all 15 of them, not chosen.
Titles, descriptions, prices, photographs and review counts come from the supplier. The classification, the comparison and the writing are ours. How a listing gets published.