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John McLaren Park is a park in southeastern San Francisco.At 312.54 acres (126.48 ha), McLaren Park is the third largest park in San Francisco by area, after Golden Gate Park and the Presidio.
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).
McLaren was born December 20, 1846, at Bannockburn, near Stirling in Scotland, [2] and worked as a dairyman. [3] He also worked in the gardens of Bannockburn House in Banockburn, [4] before going to study horticulture at the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens, where he worked as an apprentice gardener and planted grasses anchoring the beach dunes along the Firth of Forth.
The Jerry Garcia Amphitheater is an outdoor concert venue located in McLaren Park in San Francisco, California, [2] [3] opened in 1971. [1] Its maximum capacity (as of 2022) is 1,200 people. [1]
Visitacion Valley (VIZ-i-TAY-shən; Spanish: Valle de la Visitación), [3] colloquially referred to as Viz Valley, [4] is a neighborhood located in the southeastern quadrant of San Francisco, California.
In 1911 Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and her husband Adolph B. Spreckels, park commissioner and namesake of Spreckels Lake, wanted M. Earl Cummings to capture McLaren's likeness.
Philosopher's Way, San Francisco is a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) loop trail around the perimeter of John McLaren Park created by artists Peter Richards and Susan Schwartzenberg, [1] [2] staff artists at the Exploratorium.
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