Landscape-architectural construction of San Francisco’s northwest edge began in the early 1870s as the city’s West Coast response to Central Park in New York. Golden Gate Park exceeds its East Coast counterpart by some 20-percent, spanning 1,017 acres of stunning natural diversity. Hugged by the roiling Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate is home to an indigenous bison preserve and a vast array of native birds on Mallard Lake, and populated with sweet-scented Blue Gum Eucalyptus and Monterrey Pine and Cyprus trees, the unparalleled California Academy of Sciences, the de Young Museum, Japanese Tea Garden, Musical Concourse, and celebrated Conservatory of Flowers.

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