Buena Vista Park (San Francisco, California)

USA / California / San Francisco / San Francisco, California
 park, hill, place with historical importance
Buena Vista & Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 831-5500
sfrecpark.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Buena-Vista-P...

Oldest official San Francisco park, established 1867, predecessor to Golden Gate Park. Steep hill, offering spectacular views of the city -- highest elevation 575 feet -- originally covered by the sand dunes which stretched from Ocean Beach to the west all the way east to the old downtown wharves on Montgomery Street, and the Bay. (see Doris Sloan, Geology of the SF Bay Region, UCPress 2006, p.120, map 12 pp.114-5.)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista_Park
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Coordinates:   37°46'6"N   122°26'27"W

Comments

  • not really a park, per se, just a hill with a nice view, and a constant barrage of hippies lounging on the slopes.
  • Not so: really a park -- first official SF city park, in fact, predecessor to Golden Gate Park -- fancy SF folks built large houses bordering & near BV Park, originally, both for the views and for that official status, still standing around the park's perimeters. The lounging hippies are a recent phenom.
  • lounging hippies and sex in the bushes since the '60s.
  • the nickname in the 80's was skinhead park.
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