Golden Gate Park

The Conservatory of Flowers is the oldest surviving municipal wooden conservatory in North America.

This is the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States, established in 1894 as part of the California Midwinter International Exposition.

The California Academy of Sciences was founded in 1853, just three years after California became a state.

The de Young Museum you see here is actually the third building on this site.

The Music Concourse was originally the Grand Court of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition, designed by engineer Michael Henry de Young as a temporary fairground.

Stow Lake didn't exist until 1893, when park superintendent John McLaren had workers dam a natural drainage to create this twelve-acre reservoir.

Golden Gate Park has kept American bison continuously since 1891, making this one of the longest-running urban bison herds in the country.

This windmill solved a crisis. By 1900, Golden Gate Park was spending a fortune pumping groundwater to irrigate its western acres.

This garden holds one of the most significant collections of magnolias in North America, with over eighty species and cultivars.

This is one of only a handful of National Memorials located in a national park that isn't managed by the National Park Service.

This spot is widely considered the first public playground in the United States, originally called the Sharon Quarters for Children when it opened in 1888.

The six columns you see standing at the edge of Lloyd Lake are the only surviving piece of a Nob Hill mansion that belonged to Alban Towne, a vice president of the…

This fifty-seven-foot sandstone cross marks an event that predates the founding of San Francisco by nearly two centuries.

The Murphy Windmill, completed in 1908, stands about 29 metres tall and was once the largest windmill in the world.

This garden is essentially a literary index grown in dirt. Dedicated in 1928, it contains over two hundred plant species that appear in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

John McLaren ran Golden Gate Park for fifty-three years, from 1887 until his death in 1943 at age ninety-six.

In January 1967, roughly thirty thousand people gathered on this slope for the Human Be-In, an event that essentially launched the Summer of Love.

Coast redwoods are the tallest living organisms on Earth, capable of exceeding 115 metres in old-growth forests.

This rose garden was established in 1961 and contains roughly sixty flower beds with over a hundred rose varieties.

Lloyd Lake was constructed in the 1890s as part of Golden Gate Park's extensive water system.