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The island is scheduled to reopen Nov. 18 but could be extended due to bad weather. So for the next two weeks, public entry to Alcatraz Island is closed.
But standing on San Francisco’s Pier 33, where boats usually depart multiple times a day to take visitors across the bay and inside the former federal prison, you’d have no way of knowing this iconic landmark was even closed.
The usual blue signage encouraging tourists to buy tickets to the island was still plastered everywhere. Not a single sign mentioned the closure. For many tourists to San Francisco — 1.5 million of them each year — Alcatraz is the pinnacle of their trip.
So until then, KQED’s outdoors reporter Sarah Wright has some alternatives to this closure. Read for more information at kqed.org/news
✍️+ 📹: Sarah Wright
🎬: Darren Tu