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Fort Baker with the Golden Gate Bridge. Fort Baker is one of the components of California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area.The Fort, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.
In 1885, United States Secretary of War William C. Endicott, heading the Board of Fortifications, issued a report necessitating the coastal defense of San Francisco Bay.By September 1890, Colonel George Mendel, the army engineer officer in charge of defense construction in the San Francisco region, had selected for fortification a 73-acre (29.5 ha) tract of land near Point Lobos which belonged ...
Rockaway Beach is a shoreline area of the Pacific Ocean in the southern portion of Pacifica, California, United States, approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of the city of San Francisco. It is located within a gently curving embayment with direct access via Rockaway Beach Avenue and providing easy access to Highway 1 .
Baker Beach is a public beach on the peninsula of San Francisco, California, United States The beach lies on the shore of the Pacific Ocean in the northwest of the city. It is roughly a 0.5 mi (800 m) long, beginning just south of Golden Gate Point (where the Golden Gate Bridge connects with the peninsula), extending southward toward the ...
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Thirteen installations in the San Francisco area beyond Fort Mason were part of the San Francisco POE. [3] Oceangoing ships used 20 piers with 43 berths with the port having storage space of 2,867,000 sq ft (266,353.0 m 2 ) in warehouses, 1,984,000 sq ft (184,319.6 m 2 ) in transit sheds and 7,640,000 sq ft (709,779.2 m 2 ) of open space ...
Aerial view of Crissy Field 1922–23, hangars and quarters in lower center. The H-shaped building at right center is the enlisted barracks. Crissy Field is a public recreation area on the northern shore of the San Francisco Peninsula in California, United States, located just east of the Golden Gate Bridge. It includes restored tidal marsh and ...
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.