Team Building Activities San Francisco

At CityDays, we’re passionate about helping people rediscover their city: whether they live or work there or they’re just passing through. And for businesses like yours, we kick it up a notch.

Whether your business is the new kid on the block or a globally recognized brand, we have team building activities in San Francisco that will totally change the game. Turn your coworkers into code-cracking detectives, immerse them in San Francisco’s vibrant culture and history and watch as they cooperatively hunt down The City’s secrets.

Want to find out more? Read on to discover more about our unrivaled San Francisco team building activities.

Ideas For Team Building Activities in San Francisco with CityDays

CityDays’ guide to booking the best team building activities in San Francisco, including outdoor activities, corporate team building activities and much, much more!

1 Go On a Scavenger Hunt Through San Francisco

It’s no secret that people who walk more typically have healthier, longer lives - but did you know that walking also ups your employees’ productivity by as much as 50%?

If you want to see more creativity, collaboration and improved communication at your workplace, consider making your team building activity a scavenger hunt through San Francisco.

Not only will your coworkers discover more about the city they live and work in through discovering landmarks and uncovering secrets, but they will also have a chance to work together to beat the other teams in the process.

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2 Go On a San Francisco Treasure Hunt in Search of The City’s Secrets

San Francisco is full of whispering secrets, awesome landmarks and (to be honest) some pretty crazy stories. You just don’t know where or what they are.

Give your employees the gift of memories that last a lifetime while they explore San Francisco’s hidden network of treasures, unforgettable sights and intriguing histories.

Using nothing but each other, their problem-solving abilities and their cellphones, your teams will have to work cooperatively to find their way around our masterfully-crafted trails around popular San Francisco’s districts - or from your office’s very own backyard.

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3 Immerse Your Coworkers In a San Francisco Urban Adventure

There’s a kid inside all of us that says “play is the only way”. And we agree.

Urban adventure games are an ideal way to get your coworkers bonding, building their teamwork and observation skills and having fun.

Your teams play along by answering clues, solving puzzles and deconstructing riddles which reveal a secret map to awesome bars and cafés, beauty spots, cultural quirks and incredible history.

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4 Play a San Francisco Exploration Game That Reveals The City’s Cultural History

At CityDays, we believe in the importance of understanding a city’s heritage. The good and the bad. So we created Liquid Lives, a route that exposes and explores San Francisco’s incredible multicultural history and celebrates the city’s cultural diversity.

From entrepreneurial Europeans to Chilean and Jewish miners, hundreds of thousands of people have made San Francisco their home from all over the world. While some individual names and stories have been lost to history, our Liquid Lives trail highlights the city’s major feats and falls made by The City’s pioneers from its beginnings to today.

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5 Go On The Hunt for San Francisco’s Secret Garden

One of the best team building activities in San Francisco for invigorating a bit of friendly competition between departments: seeking out a Secret Garden.

To get there, your graphic designers, office clerks, administrators or whoever will have to transform into daytime detectives by undertaking a monumental task: finding the end location first.

To do that, they’ll have to work together seamlessly, carve out their own tactics and put their minds together to solve tricky riddles and head-scratching puzzles. Whether they opt for quick wit or slow and steady reasoning, all teams will experience a fantastic day out with plenty of benefits for all involved.

Who’ll get there first? We’ll find out when we look at the leaderboard…

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PSST: Have you got your own end venue in mind already, or want us to pick one just for your business? Contact us - we love a challenge!

Unusual Facts About San Francisco

They say there’s no place like home - and “they” are right. Our team building activities in San Francisco are all about helping your coworkers mingle, up their problem-solving skills and discover new things to love about The City.

We’ve helped numerous San Francisco businesses craft their perfect team-building days, and to give you a flavor of how much detail we go into on our trails, check out these unusual San Francisco facts that we’ve managed to dig up…

1 The Man Who Gave San Francisco its Name Is The Patron Saint of Ecologists

Apart from giving his name to our favorite Californian city, Saint Francis (aka Saint Francis or San Francisco in Spanish) was a huge advocate of preserving animal life and their habitats.

Happily, his legacy lives on in San Francisco today: Californians use on average 100 gallons of water daily, while San Franciscans only use 49.

2 Fortune Cookies were (Probably) Invented in San Francisco

Getting Chinese takeout wouldn’t be the same without reading a cryptic message hidden in a delicious cookie and it’s (probably) thanks to a Japanese immigrant to San Francisco, Makato Hagiwara.

He was a landscape gardener who designed the Golden Gate tearoom. Hagiwara served Japanese buns with thank you notes inside them at the beginning of the 20th century, a habit which was quickly adopted by food vendors in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

3 San Francisco’s Hottest Month is September

This is because cities near a lot of water always have their hottest day a long while after its longest day (which usually occurs in the last week of June) due to “Seasonal Lag”.

4 Many of San Francisco’s Street Names are Stamped Into Sidewalks at Intersections

At CityDays, we often advise our adventurers to look up and look around - you never know what might be there. But on this occasion, we’re telling you to look down (if it’s safe to do so!).

If you’re looking for total accuracy from the sidewalk, you might be disappointed. There are some instances of misspelled names stamped into San Francisco’s sidewalks - as many as 150 of them, in fact. Our favorite so far is “Buchnana” (Buchanan Street).