Lombard Street crosses San Francisco from west to east, but the section that draws visitors is only one residential block in the Russian Hill neighborhood. Between Hyde and Leavenworth streets, the steep road bends through eight tight turns, with landscaped planting beds and homes close to the sidewalk. San Francisco Travel presents the block as an iconic city landmark; its appeal is not just the curves, but the way the road reveals the city’s dramatic hills in a compact, walkable setting.
The name “the crookedest street in the world” is a familiar nickname, not a precise geographic ranking. San Francisco has other winding streets, and the famous block is one segment of a much longer Lombard Street. The distinction matters: visitors often arrive expecting an entire route of switchbacks, when the celebrated feature is the short stretch between Hyde and Leavenworth. The neighborhood remains residential, so the gardens and house fronts are part of a lived-in street, not a theme-park set. The celebrated curves are concentrated in a single block, which makes the contrast between the steep approach and the carefully landscaped descent especially easy to see.
