Alcatraz is in San Francisco Bay off the coast of San Francisco and visible from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for ...

The former island prison is both a National Historic Landmark and a national park site that draws more than a million ...

Visitors walk through a cell block at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, May 5, 2025. President ...

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on ...

Alcatraz became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and was opened to the public in 1973, a decade after it was closed as a prison. The park service says the island gets more than 1 ...