you fly out to San francisco and go to downtown Sanfran then you go to fishmen Warf then you go past pier 39 where there will be a sign that says ferries to Alcatraz the tickets when i was there were $20.00 a piece
Alcatraz, which was a Federal Prison, is located on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay in California. It is currently a museum, and boats take visitors out daily to tour the grounds.
The Spanish explorer, Juan Manuel de Ayala name it Alcatraz, because of the 100's & 100's of Pelicans that lived there. Alcatraz is the Spanish word for Pelican.