San Francisco Glen Canyon Park Group Hike

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The park is about 63 acres of undeveloped natural area which features free-flowing Islais Creek and the associated riparian habitat, an extensive grassland with adjoining trees that supports breeding pairs of red-tailed hawks and great horned owls, striking rock outcrops, and arid patches covered by “coastal scrub” plant communities.

The bottom of the canyon, where Islais Creek flows, is irregular but moderate in slope, dropping 350 feet over a distance of about 1 mile.

Adolph Sutro’s purchase in the 1850s of the canyon, which he named “Gum Tree Ranch” after the blue gum eucalyptus trees he had planted.

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