{"id":277414,"date":"2026-04-20T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:14:08","slug":"san-franciscos-alcatraz-island-closes-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277414\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s Alcatraz Island closes for repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/sf-coyote-alcatraz-relocation-21327736.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Alcatraz Island<\/a> has shut down and will be closed to visitors for the rest of the week to undergo repairs at its dock, National Park Service officials told SFGATE on Monday morning. The historic landmark and tourist destination is scheduled to reopen by Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an email, Joshua Winchell, the park\u2019s chief of communications and special park uses, described the closure as fairly routine. He noted it was a \u201cplanned\u201d and \u201cpre-scheduled\u201d endeavor to repair the island\u2019s dock where more than a million people disembark every year, \u201cspecifically to repair and inspect the dock pilings.\u201d All tours from Monday through Friday have been canceled, and previously purchased tickets have been refunded, though Winchell was not immediately able to share how many.<\/p>\n<p>An alert about the closure was shared on the park service\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/alca\/index.htm\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> on Friday, encouraging people to reschedule their tours by calling Alcatraz City Cruises at 415-981-7625. A spokesperson for the tour operator was not able to provide more information by time of publication, but was offering tickets for its alternative Bay Discovery sightseeing cruise, which zips around the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito and Angel Island. Tickets for its Alcatraz tours resume again on Saturday, with most morning slots sold out.<\/p>\n<p>The news caught some out-of-towners by surprise. On Reddit, one user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/1squ7cm\/alcatraz_island_tour\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> they learned of the cancellation Monday morning as they were preparing to visit San Francisco for the first time from the United Kingdom, and they weren\u2019t sure if they could reschedule.<\/p>\n<p>Updates on the status of the island\u2019s reopening will be shared on the park\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/alca\/index.htm\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, Winchell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s Alcatraz Island has shut down and will be closed to visitors for the rest of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1693,1229,1228],"class_list":{"0":"post-277414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-sfglocal","15":"tag-sfgparks","16":"tag-sfgtravel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}