Haight-Ashbury

Cole Street (left) and Haight Street (right)

Haight-Ashbury (/ˌheɪt ˈæʃbɛri, -bəri/) is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called the Haight and the Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.

Quotes about Haight-Ashbury

• The crowds on Haight Street got bigger and bigger and bigger [after the Human Be-In]. Word spread like fire. Everybody came to San Francisco.
  • Historian Rusty Goldman, as quoted by Teresa Nowakowski of Smithsonian Magazine (January 14, 2025) [1]