Golden Gate Park

Lakes, gardens, meadows, playgrounds, picnic areas, recreation, and cultural destinations make Golden Gate Park San Francisco's broadest all-day park, with distributed operations to check.

Attraction hours, roads, events, and construction projects change independently across this large park; check the specific destination and current road-closure pages before going.

Best for
Gardens + playgrounds + lakes
Nature
Lakes + meadows + gardens
Play
Multiple playgrounds
Outside
Picnic areas + trails
Location

501 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
Golden Gate Park · Directions

Golden Gate Park is a broad park system of lakes, meadows, gardens, playgrounds, picnic areas, trails, recreation spaces, and independently operated cultural destinations.

The City supplies a most-usable-pathways resource while warning that terrain and site conditions limit some areas. Individual gardens, museums, carousel, boating, roads, events, and construction projects follow separate schedules and access rules.

Official park details

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