Reservations for tours during the impending closure will be canceled and refunded.

An all-day café will bring seasonal food and coffee to Alcatraz Landing in San Francisco.

Alcatraz Island will close to visitors from 26 October to 18 November 2026 while crews replace ferry-dock pilings at the San ...

During my sightseeing trip to San Francisco, I visited Alcatraz Island. Alcatraz Island is known as a prison that once held ...

A three-week closure could disrupt visitors’ vacation plans. Here’s what’s going on — and ideas to pivot your travel.

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area announced that it will close the island to visitors and tours from Oct. 26 to Nov. 18, to complete repairs.

Prisoners on Alcatraz once risked the perilous waters in San Francisco Bay to escape the island's high-security prison. Now, a wily coyote has been filmed doing the opposite: swimming to Alcatraz ...

Photos of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, from its former prison and historic buildings to gardens, wildlife and city ...

Tourists expecting prison lore at Alcatraz instead got a wildlife mystery: a lone coyote churning through San Francisco Bay toward the island once billed as "escape-proof." Alcatraz City Cruises ...

You know Alcatraz Island? The notorious prison from which three men made a daring escape back in 1962, never to be heard from again? Well, another creature recently made history as it swam to Alcatraz ...

Alcatraz hosts over a million visitors annually. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images NBC Sports announced Monday that it would be using Alcatraz Island, the site of a former prison that is now a tourist ...