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Good News: Parking at SF & Marin Beaches Will Remain Free
Bay Area Updates, Good News, Have Your Voice Heard, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Good news… Thanks to MarinIJ for sharing the news the National Park Service is dropping its proposal to charge parking fees at several popular coastal sites in San Francisco and Marin including Baker Beach, Lands End Lookout, China Beach, Stinson Beach, and others. The proposed parking fees would have instituted a more...
SF’s New Interactive Exhibit in Golden Gate Park
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches The Exploratorium, in partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, announced the completion of a set of installations and interactive experiences around the recently upgraded Stanyan Street Entrance to Golden Gate Park. The installations, designed and fabricated by the Exploratorium, aim to reveal, enhance, and celebrate the park’s ever-changing natural and more...
San Francisco Fleet Week 2021: Blue Angels + Full Schedule of Events
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Outdoorsy, San Francisco Look up in the sky when you hear the roaring of jet engines and head down to SF’s northern waterfront and Dogpatch for San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week airshow and festival which is back in 2021 after a year off. New for 2021 – The Blue Angels are celebrating their 75th more...
Sunday Streets’ “Phoenix Day” 30+ Block Parties Take Over SF (Oct. 17)
Outdoorsy, Reopening San Francisco’s Sunday Streets is back on October 17, and bigger than ever. They’re dubbing it “Phoenix Day” featuring 5 open streets destinations, 30+ neighborhood block parties, a 20+ mile community bike ride, and dozens of neighbor-hosted block parties. Get ready to celebrate community, health, resilience, and car-free fun in the streets more...
SF’s New Ropes Course is Now Fully Open
Brand New, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches A new ropes course located in San Francisco’s McLaren Park is fully open after city leaders on Thursday held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new site — the first ropes course on city property. Although the McLaren Park Ropes Course had a soft opening 11 months ago, the full opening more...
SF’s Waterfront Park Playground Destroyed by Fire
Bay Area Updates, Fire Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches A fire consumed a beloved playground late Thursday night near the Ferry Building. Park rangers were alerted at 11:30 p.m. that firefighters had extinguished a blaze at the children’s play area of Sue Bierman Park. Both the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Fire Department are investigating. The fire destroyed a more...
All 22 Free Outdoor Concerts for Fleet Week 2021 (Oct. 4-11)
Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, Outdoorsy, San Francisco Fleet Week’s Neighborhood Free Concerts – October 4-11, 2021 We are incredibly grateful for the participation of the Navy and Marine Corps bands each year as part of San Francisco Fleet Week! We are also incredibly proud of Fleet Week’s Neighborhood Concert Program, which gives San Franciscans a chance to interact more...
Yosemite Ends Day-Use Reservations Starting Oct. 1
COVID-19 Updates, Outdoorsy Thanks to ABC30 for sharing the news that Yosemite National Park will be ending its reservation system on Friday, October 1. A reservation is still required to drive into Yosemite through September 30, 2021. Yosemite implemented a temporary day-use reservation system to better manage heavy visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reservations were more...
SF Might Ditch Free Parking at Beaches & Lookouts in 2022
Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco By Bay City News Service Parks users are chiming in about new parking fees proposed for sites around the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco and Marin County. Related Story – SF Beaches & Lookouts Might Start Charging $3/Hr Parking in 2022 – 8/29/21 Sunday is the last day for the more...
Floating Outdoor Movie Night Returns to SF
Outdoorsy It’s a little spendy, but you can sit back, relax and watch a movie aboard a twilight cruise of The Bay. Floating Features is back. Red and White and The Roxie are partnering once again to turn our hybrid vessel Enhydra into a floating cinema for a limited run of nighttime film more...
SF Might Make GG Park’s JFK Drive Car-Free for Good
Bay Area Updates, Have Your Voice Heard, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy Today, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department (RPD) and the SFMTA are jointly launching the Golden Gate Park Access and Safety Program, an effort to consider a post-pandemic set of closed or restricted access streets and mobility choices in San Francisco’s most iconic park. During the first weeks of the pandemic, more...
SF’s “Flower Piano” Festival is Back September 17-21
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Favorites, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Reopening San Francisco Botanical Garden and Sunset Piano are excited to present one of the most unique, creative, and innovative events in the Bay Area. After five successful years, and a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, we are excited to bring back Flower Piano to transform San Francisco Botanical more...
SF’s New Popup “Silent Disco” Outdoor Cinema Hideaway
Brand New, Eat & Drink, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy An outdoor cinema is popping up at Dirty Habit, the fifth-floor hideaway in SoMa with a spacious heated outdoor patio. Embrace the uniquely San Francisco ‘Second Summer’ again this September and October with an outdoor movie series, Second Summer Outdoor Movie Series at Dirty Habit, Silenced by Sound Off. Hotel Zelos and more...
Brand New 3,100-acre State Park Coming to East Bay
Brand New, New Parks, Outdoorsy Thousands of acres of East Bay wilderness will be preserved as a new state park under a $30.8 million agreement reached last week between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature. The 3,100-acre Tesla parcel in the southeast corner of Alameda County has several threatened and endangered species and is considered more...
Goodbye “Squaw Valley,” Hello “Palisades Tahoe”
Healing, Outdoorsy, Reopening, Tahoe In an effort to ditch its offensive name, Tahoe’s Squaw Valley has officially changed its name to Palisades Tahoe. Today, Palisades Tahoe introduced its new name and logo that honor the resort’s history as a land of legends—home to freeskiing pioneers, Winter Olympians and cultural icons across more than seven decades of ski more...
