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Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the second-largest park in the city , containing 1,017 acres (412 ha), and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.
This included the 1936 Doyle Drive, an early freeway built to access the Golden Gate Bridge. [1] After some discussion, the I-480 number was assigned on November 10, 1958. (I-280, as originally planned, ran south from the west end of I-480 along SR 1, through the MacArthur Tunnel and Golden Gate Park, to join its present alignment in Daly City.)
Golden Gate Fields' facilities included a one-mile (1,609 m) synthetic track and a turf course measuring 9/10 of a mile, or 7 furlongs plus 132 feet (1,448 m), stalls for 1,420 horses, a main grandstand with seating for about 8,000 customers, a clubhouse with seating for about 5,200 customers, a Turf Club with seating for about 1,500 customers ...
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, ... located in Golden Gate Park, ...
The Great Highway was laid out in the Humphreys-Potter map of 1868 [4] which laid out the streets of San Francisco's newly acquired Outside Lands, including the Richmond and Sunset districts. In the 1890s, a railway line was run along the route of the Great Highway from its Southern terminus to Golden Gate Park in order to build the California ...
The Polo Fields is a large multi-purpose stadium and sporting field in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. [2] Despite its name, polo is rarely played on the Polo Fields. The facility has a multitude of uses. [3] There are six regulation soccer pitches on the grass field, surrounded by a .67-mile cycle track. [4]
“Golden Gate Fields is a beautiful small track built into Fleming Point, it’s a natural amphitheater,” said Alan Balch, currently the executive director of the California Thoroughbred ...
An 1853 map of San Francisco labels the area that the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park presently occupy the "Great Sand Bank". In 1870, the Panhandle's footprint occupied large, shifting sand-dunes with little vegetation in between it and the Pacific Ocean known as the "Outside Lands".