Neighborhoods: Caledonia St. & New Town

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Caledonia St. and New Town

Just seven blocks long, this section of Sausalito includes the locals-focused Caledonia St., which runs parallel to Bridgeway at the base of the hill. It is the site of Sausalito’s only hardware store, multiple dry cleaners and small specialty grocers, an old-school barber shop and one of the best little gift and card shops in the Bay Area. This area has even more restaurants and bars per block than downtown Sausalito!

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Insiders Tip: Check out our special page on Parking Near Caledonia St. Without Getting a Ticket. It explains how to avoid the no-parking zones that catch some visitors by surprise.

Why “New Town”? The area where Sausalito was originally founded, at the southern edge of the city, has been called Old Town ever since, well, ever since they started to build New Town! After the coming of the railroad to Sausalito in the 1870’s the city grew into this new northern valley, and the terms Old Town and New Town came into use to differentiate the two areas on the southern and northern edges of Sausalito. So at the age of 130+ New Town is no longer quite so new unless you compare it about 180 years of age for Old Town!