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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.
The fort was completed just before the American Civil War by the United States Army, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site, a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is ...
The Shoreline of San Francisco in 1853. North Point is geographic feature and, formerly, a cape on the northeast side of San Francisco, California.Historically, the location of the cape was at the foot of Loma Alta (now Telegraph Hill), approximately at what is now the intersection of Bay and Kearny Streets, just southwest of Pier 35.
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is a U.S. National Recreation Area protecting 82,116 acres (33,231 ha) of ecologically and historically significant landscapes surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. Much of the park is land formerly used by the United States Army.
National Park Service. Golden Gate National Recreation Area (partially), including Alcatraz; China Beach; Fort Funston; Fort Mason; Fort Miley (partially) Lands End; Ocean Beach; The Presidio, including Baker Beach; Crissy Field; Fort Point; San Francisco National Cemetery; Sutro District, including Cliff House; Sutro Baths; Sutro Heights Park ...
The Cliff House is a neo-classical style building perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building overlooks the site of the Sutro Baths ruins, Seal Rocks, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park ...
Park Presidio Boulevard is a road and park in San Francisco, California, which connects Golden Gate Park to the Presidio of San Francisco. [1] It carries California State Route 1 along its entire route. The land was purchased in 1903, for the sum of $360,000, as an extension of Golden Gate Park. [2]
USGS San Francisco North Strawberry Hill is a hill in San Francisco, California , near the center of Golden Gate Park . The hill occupies an entire island in the park's man-made Blue Heron Lake , and is connected by two bridges to the mainland of the park.