You can experience all this and more at Alcatraz Island, a national park site unlike any other. We will outline everything ...

Thursday marked 50 years of tourists visiting Alcatraz Island, the notorious former maximum security federal prison-turned-national park. NBC Bay Area got an insider's vantage point from a Bay ...

National Park Service A photo from 1869 shows soldiers on the island back when it was still a fort During the US Civil War, Fort Alcatraz was used at the official military prison of the West Coast.

including National Park Service rangers, volunteers, and maintenance personnel. The 22-acre rocky island of Alcatraz is less than two miles north of downtown San Francisco, so the journey lasts ...

New evidence suggests that at least one convict escaped from Alcatraz and survived National Geographic investigates one of the most intricate prison escapes in history three tireless inmates break ...

A journalist takes a rare trip to the Farallones, to see how the more than half a million seabirds that breed there each year ...

The prison closed in 1963, and today, Alcatraz Island is a National Historic Landmark. Visitors can explore the cell blocks, visit the solitary confinement cells, and learn about the infamous ...

In addition to sailing beneath both the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge, tourgoers will see Alcatraz Island ... like Lombard Street and Golden Gate Park, you'll hear all about San Francisco ...

Daytime highs will be mostly in the upper 70s to 80s on the coast, in the 80s to 100s around the bay, and in the upper 90s to 100s inland. Overnight lows will be mostly in the 50s, with some areas ...

The ferry ride aboard Alcatraz City Cruises takes about 15 minutes. Advance reservations are recommended. This national park is one for the books, breaking records as both one of the hottest ...

As an independent curator, Chris has organized exhibitions at Art Ark Gallery and Alcatraz National Park. He has performed at the J. Paul Getty Museum, East West Players and Barnsdall Gallery Theater.