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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.
By 2021, the closure, along with the pedestrianization of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, had become hotly debated. [9] One city survey of 4,000 San Francisco residents found 53% of respondents supported making the closure to motor vehicles permanent. [14]
Lloyd Lake, also known as Mirror Lake or Kissane Lake, is a clay-lined lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, named in memory of Reuben Hedley Lloyd, the park commissioner. [2] It is home to a wide variety of non-native, non-migratory birds.
Golden Gate Park Stadium (1906-36) Address: 1232 John F. Kennedy Dr San Francisco, CA 94121: Location: Golden Gate Park: Owner: City and County of San Francisco: Operator: San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department: Capacity: 57,000: Construction; Broke ground: January 6, 1905 () Opened: July 4, 1906 () Construction cost: $50,000
Spreckels Lake is an artificial, clay-lined, reservoir holding around 7.8 million gallons (23.94 acre feet/29,530,000 liters) of non-potable (not-drinkable) well-water [3] [not specific enough to verify] behind an earthen dam that forms its western edge, walkway, and the 36th Avenue roadbed, which crosses the top of the dam after entering Golden Gate Park at Fulton Street.
Thomas Starr King Statue in Golden Gate Park, facing JFK Drive, close to the De Young Museum. [23] King's church, the First Unitarian Church [24] and his sarcophagus [25] in San Francisco are designated historical monuments.
The land was purchased in 1903, for the sum of $360,000, as an extension of Golden Gate Park. [2] Running from Crossover Drive near the John F. Kennedy Drive overpass inside Golden Gate Park westward, it turns north and runs between 14th Avenue and Funston Avenue in the Richmond District.
The San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 did little damage to the Conservatory of Flowers. The structure is visible in a number of photographs of refugees living in Golden Gate Park after the disaster. However, records indicate that reconstruction costs ensued to the surrounding landscape from refugees living in the park.