The district includes a beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers.

[4] The District's San Francisco Maritime Museum building was built as a bathhouse in 1936 by the WPA; in streamline moderne style, its interior is decorated with fantastic, colorful murals.

The Steamship Room illustrates the evolution of maritime technology from wind to steam, and there are displays of lithographic stones, scrimshaw, and whaling guns and photo-murals of San Francisco's early waterfront.

A visitors gallery hosts such exhibitions as Sparks (2005), which showcased shipboard radio, radiotelephone, and radio-teletype equipment from over the years.

To the south is a grassy area known as Victorian Park, which contains the Hyde Street cable car turnaround.