Buy individual URBIA Adventure booklets:
With each booklet-based self-guided adventure your family (and invited friends) will experience a two-hour rewarding, team-building adventure in a special part of San Francisco. Booklet/s will be mailed to your child with a special stamped envelope and URBIA Adventure mini-pencil. $7.50 for each sixteen-page booklet (includes postage). Click here for a taste of an URBIA Adventure.
[TEACHERS: Bulk discounts and teacher guides are available. Please contact us! team@urbikids.com]
San Francisco Adventure No. 1: Islands in the Sky
Explores a string of hills rising above the Inner Sunset with lots of colorful stairways along the way. Spectacular views and peeks at rare Green Hairstreak butterfly habitat (and possibly butterflies depending on the season!)
San Francisco Adventure No. 2: Wayfinding on Rocky Mountain
Explores the natural environs surrounding the Randall Museum. Look for slickensides and add a piece of chert to the URBIA Chert Cairn: spectacular views from atop the chert outcrop at the top of the hill!
San Francisco Adventure No. 3: Seeking California in a World of Plants
Explores the San Francisco Botantical Garden in Golden Gate Park. Lush earthen paths, stepping stones and small bridges!
San Francisco Adventure No. 4: A Hidden Creek Makes a Lake
Explores the valley where Stern Grove and Pine Lake are nestled. Tall trees, an open plain and one of San Francisco’s last lakes!
San Francisco Adventure No. 5: Journeys to San Francisco
Explores the urban environs of the newly renovated Richmond District Library. Public art, architectural details, and a special URBIA record of “How did your family get here?” in the reference section of the Children’s Library!
SF Family Explorer Package: (Four adventures of your choosing for $20!)
Get four URBIA Adventures of your choice at once and be ready for a two hour family team adventure whenever you like!
Buy a subscription for a year of URBIA Adventure booklets in the mail:
$28 for four quarterly adventure packets-by-mail (new subscriptions only)
Adventure packets arrive in your mail box every season. The boxes stay hidden year-round, so URBIA adventures can be undertaken on any day of the year!
Click here to subscribe!
New members also receive a Nature in the City map highlighting the city’s natural heritage and special natural places in San Francisco.
Past adventure booklets are also sold at several locations:
- Green Apple Bookstore at 506 Clement Street
- Paxton Gate’s Curiousities for Kids at 766 Valencia Street
- The SF Botanical Garden Bookstore (Adventure No. 3)
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