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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 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.
Initial work completed in 1871 included grading, fencing, drainage and irrigation work, and development of a park nursery. In 1872, 22,000 hardy and quick-growing trees were planted, park roads were built, and visitors began to arrive by the thousands. [4] Aerial view of today's Golden Gate Park, which was once known as the Outside Lands
The Beach Chalet is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial Revival-style building, [2] located at the far western end of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.The building is owned by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department; and the tenants are the Beach Chalet Brewery and Restaurant, and the Park Chalet.
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 now popular as a tourist viewing point of the Golden Gate Bridge directly over top of it.
The National AIDS Memorial Grove, or "The Grove," is located at the de Laveaga Dell in eastern Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, California. [1]The Grove is a dedicated space and place in the national landscape where the millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember.
The daily visitor fee increased from $8 to $9 in 2020, and the commercial daily visitor rate changed from $10 to $15 at the start of 2023.According to a gate fee agreement negotiated in 2018 ...
McLaren Lodge is an historic building within Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, U.S..Built in 1896, the building served dual use; as the home of the superintendent of the park department John McLaren, until his death in 1943; and also serves as the headquarters for the San Francisco Parks Department (now known as San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department).