Parks & Open Spaces
Need another good reason to love the City by the Bay? How about this one: more green space than any other municipality in the United States. Our recreation and parks system makes the most of an incomparable natural setting, with more than 220 parks and places for you to enjoy throughout the city. Start here to find locations, amenities, hours and more, then get out and play!
Our parks map is a interactive mapping tool which you can use to locate parks or facilities with in your area. With the ability to highlight facilities, select by park name, or search by neighborhood, our park finder tool has you covered.
San Francisco's incomparable natural setting and rich cultural heritage make it one of the best cities in the world in which to live, work, and play, as well as one of the most popular vacation spots. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department is privileged to be responsible for the care of many of this special city's special places, from beloved monuments like Coit Tower and the Palace of Fine Arts to magnificent Golden Gate Park and hidden gems like McLaren Park. Here are just a few of the parks and facilities we maintain.
The Recreation and Park Department supports and manages a program of 40 community gardens (and growing!) on City-owned property. Each garden is operated by a group of committed volunteers for growing ornamentals and produce for personal use through individual or shared plots.
We're proud to welcome more than 13 million visitors every year to Golden Gate Park, one of our City's greatest treasures. From a vast, windswept expanse of sand dunes, park engineer William Hammond Hall and master gardener John McLaren envisioned an oasis, a verdant, horticulturally diverse and picturesque public space where city dwellers could relax and reconnect with the natural world.
A bird's-eye viewpoint above San Francisco reveals the remnants of an ancient wild landscape. Scattered here and there are small oases of wildlife that escaped the transformation from wildland to metropolis. These are San Francisco's natural areas, where a remarkable diversity of plants, birds, reptiles and amphibians, endangered butterflies, and mammals survive.
Vessels have berthed at the San Francisco Marina Yacht Harbor, on the City's northern waterfront, since before the 1906 earthquake. It has 671 berths spread over two harbors: East Harbor, also known as Gashouse Cove, which hosts City Yachts boat sales, and West Harbor, which includes the Saint Francis and Golden Gate yacht clubs, the Harbormaster's building, and Marina Green park.
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