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Aquatic Park Historic District is a National Historic Landmark and building complex on the San Francisco Bay waterfront within San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The district includes a beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers.
The Dolphin Club hosts a polar bear swim challenge where members attempt to swim 40 miles (64 km) in the San Francisco Bay inside Aquatic Park during the winter season. [ 18 ] [ 27 ] Since 1956, the Dolphin Club has hosted an annual 100 miles (160 km) row from the club to Sacramento .
The City of San Francisco declared the four-story brick structure a historic landmark in 1974, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Inside, exhibits (including a first order Fresnel lighthouse lens and a shipwrecked boat) tell the story of San Francisco's colorful and diverse maritime heritage. The ...
Aquatic Park; Hyde Street Pier; United States Fish and Wildlife Service. ... San Francisco Bay Area portal; 10-Minute Walk; Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy;
Aquarium of the Bay is a public aquarium located at The Embarcadero and Beach Street, at the edge of Pier 39 in San Francisco, California. The aquarium is focused on local aquatic animals from the San Francisco Bay and neighboring rivers and watersheds as far as the Sierra Mountains. Since 2005 the Aquarium has focused its mission on enabling ...
The race courses vary from year to year, but there is typically a 10.5-nautical-mile (19.4 km) "long course" which starts at Aquatic Park and circumnavigates the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and the westernmost tower San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, as well as a "short course" from Aquatic Park around the Bay Bridge tower and back.
Parks in the City and County of San Francisco — in the San Francisco Bay Area, northern California The main article for this category is List of parks in San Francisco . Subcategories
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