Parks & Beaches
New SF Park Connecting Fort Mason to the Waterfront Opens June 2021
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, New Parks, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Beatrice Kilat, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Thanks to the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy for sharing the news about San Francisco’s newest park. Black Point Historic Gardens, a new park connecting Fort Mason to the San Francisco waterfront, opens to the public soon, tentatively scheduled for June 2021. The restoration of more...
SF Named Top 10 in USA for Its City Parks
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches By Jeff Ballinger, Bay City News Bay Area cities rose on the annual ParkScore index, an annual study released Wednesday night by the San Francisco-based nonprofit The Trust for Public Land that ranks park systems in the 100 largest U.S. cities. Four Bay Area cities made the list again this time, with more...
Golden Gate National Recreation Area May Increase Fees
Bay Area Favorites, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which hosted more than 12 million visitors last year, is proposing an increase to fees for some activities to keep up with the costs of managing the park. Amid the pandemic, many areas of the park have seen a dramatic increase in visitation. Revenue from these fees will contribute toward a variety more...
Stern Grove Festival is Back for 2021 (June 20 – Aug 29)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Parks & Beaches, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Stern Grove Festival announced a packed lineup for their 2021 season highlighted by a July 4th concert with the San Francisco Symphony, Thievery Corporation on July 11, Fitz & The Tantrums on August 15th and the finale “The Big Picnic” with Tower of Power and Too $hort on August 29. All shows more...
SF’s Esprit Park is Getting a $7.7 Million Makeover
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Esprit Park is one step closer to a $7.7 million renovation designed to balance the needs of its growing Dogpatch community—from families to fitness enthusiasts to dogs and their people, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department and University of California San Francisco announced today. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors more...
Locally Extinct Butterflies Now Thriving in The Presidio
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Uplifting Thank you to ABC7 News for sharing that a previously locally extinct butterfly is now flourishing in The Presidio. Thanks to a successful restoration of their native habitat, the Variable Checkerspot Butterflies were the sixth native wildlife species to be re-introduced in the Presidio and now they’re thriving. The variable checkerspot or Chalcedon more...
Presidio Baby Turtle Discovered in SF’s Mountain Lake
Adorable, Bay Area Updates, Green, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Uplifting Welcome to the world, baby turtle! Back in 2015 – after the completion of massive cleanup efforts at Mountain Lake – the Presidio Trust, along with San Francisco Zoo and Sonoma State University, reintroduced native Western pond turtles. Thankfully, The Presidio’s wildlife ecologists recently found a cute baby turtle, the more...
SF Supervisor Pushes to Keep Ferry Service to Angel Island
Bay Area Updates, Parks & Beaches With the Blue & Gold Fleet possibly ending its ferry service from San Francisco to Angel Island, Supervisor Gordon Mar on Tuesday called for a resolution supporting continued service to the island to honor the estimated one million immigrants who were once detained there. Blue & Gold Fleet announced in December more...
350 Statues Coming to GG Park as Powerful New Art Piece
Brand New, Causes, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches A new work of public art will rise in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Monumental Reckoning squarely addresses America’s original sin of slavery while guiding us to a more honest, inclusive, and uplifting future. UPDATE: The installation was approved by both the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Recreation more...
Point Reyes’ “Drakes Beach” Closes for 4 Months
Bay Area Updates, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Drakes Beach, a favorite summer destination with sweeping views of the bay by the same name and of the Point Reyes National Seashore, will be closed for nearly four months starting on Monday, May 3 to accommodate road repairs and wetland restoration. A large part of the beach’s parking lot, which was more...
30MPH Winds Topple Tree in Downtown SF Park, Trapping One
Bay Area Updates, Parks & Beaches One person was injured late Saturday afternoon in San Francisco after being trapped by a tree that toppled, likely a result of high winds that reached up to 30 MPH. San Francisco fire officials said the tree fell down just before 4 p.m. near Front and Jackson streets in downtown San more...
Big Basin State Park Plans for Limited Reopening by Memorial Day
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Causes, Fire Updates, Getting Help, Healing, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Reopening By Julie Cart – CalMatters In the annals of California history, no one has ever had to put a broken state park back together. There’s no guidebook, no rules. So now state officials and conservationists are attempting a complex and extraordinary Humpty Dumpty project: The reawakening of Big Basin Redwoods State more...
