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Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, California, United States.It is the second-largest park in the city, containing 1,017 acres (412 ha), and the third-most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 24 million visitors annually.
It is the oldest official park in San Francisco, established in 1867 as Hill Park, later renamed Buena Vista. It is bounded by Haight Street to the north, and by Buena Vista Avenue West and Buena Vista Avenue East. The park is on a steep hill that peaks at 575 feet (175 m), and covers 37 acres (150,000 m 2). The lowest section is the north end ...
The Haight cable car line, completed in 1883, connected the east end of Golden Gate Park with the geographically central Market Street line and the rest of downtown San Francisco. As the primary gateway to Golden Gate Park, and with an amusement park known as the Chutes [17] on Haight Street between Cole and Clayton Streets between 1895 and ...
Hippie Hill is a small hill and historic area within Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.It is situated between the Conservatory of Flowers and Haight Street.Positioned east of the Golden Gate Park tennis courts, this green space features a gentle sloping lawn located off Kezar Drive.
An 1853 map of San Francisco labels the area that the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park presently occupy the "Great Sand Bank". In 1870, the Panhandle's footprint occupied large, shifting sand-dunes with little vegetation in between it and the Pacific Ocean known as the "Outside Lands".
Yellowstone park regulations require that people stay at least 25 yards from all wildlife (including bison) and at least 100 yards from bears and wolves. "Disregarding these regulations can result ...
Spreckels Lake is an artificial, clay-lined, reservoir holding around 7.8 million gallons (23.94 acre feet/29,530,000 liters) of non-potable (not-drinkable) well-water [3] [not specific enough to verify] behind an earthen dam that forms its western edge, walkway, and the 36th Avenue roadbed, which crosses the top of the dam after entering Golden Gate Park at Fulton Street.
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park were recently in for a treat when a bison herd stopped traffic while migrating through the park. WTVideo shared a video a visitor took to its Facebook page on ...