Entrance of the Golden Gate Park

The entrance of Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco

The entrance of Golden Gate Park marks the threshold of one of the largest urban parks of the United States. The San Francisco audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this vast setting of greenery, the green lung and leisure place of the city.

The threshold of an immense urban park

Golden Gate Park is one of the largest and finest urban parks of the United States, even more vast than the famous Central Park of New York. Its entrance, at the end of the Haight-Ashbury district, marks the beginning of an immense expanse of greenery created at the end of the nineteenth century on former sand dunes. The park deploys lawns, gardens, lakes, paths, museums, a Japanese garden and a botanical garden. It is the great green lung of the city and a much-prized place of promenade and leisure.

What to see

Here you cross the threshold of the immense Golden Gate Park, which deploys lawns, gardens, lakes, paths, museums, a Japanese garden and a botanical garden. The park is the great green lung of San Francisco, more vast than Central Park. It is a must-see stop for promenade and nature.

Practical information

The entrance of Golden Gate Park lies at the end of Haight-Ashbury, in San Francisco, reachable on foot and by public transport. The park is a freely accessible public space; its paths suit a stroll. The museums and thematic gardens it houses follow their own hours and conditions, which vary.

What is Golden Gate Park of San Francisco?

One of the largest urban parks of the United States, more vast than Central Park, with lawns, gardens, lakes, museums, a Japanese garden and a botanical garden, in San Francisco.

Where is the entrance of Golden Gate Park?

At the end of the Haight-Ashbury district, in San Francisco, in California.