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	Encyclopedia of San Francisco
		The fact that Golden Gate Park has endured as the playground of the recreation-hungry city is a testament to its visionary founders and hardworking keepers.
		At the turn of the century, Golden Gate Park was the free Disneyland of its time, with attractions ranging from animals and birds to lush plantings and numerous types of recreational and athletic activities.
		Hall considered the park to be a place to enjoy nature without the trappings of the city, a place that did not include a lot of structures, particularly ones that did not contribute to the true park experience.
	www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/g/goldenGate-park.html (4594 words)

	Golden Gate Park
		Golden Gate Park is one of the largest man-made parks in the world.
		Golden Gate Park became center-stage for a mini-revolution of sorts, hosting numerous concerts and the magical Summer of Love.
		A group called the Alliance for Golden Gate Park says the design of the new museum is completely out of place in a park environment.
	www.newcolonist.com /gg_park.html (1018 words)

	Golden Gate Park
		Golden Gate park is the largest man made park in the world, followed closely by Central Park in New York.
		Inline skating is very big in Golden Gate Park, which in itself serves as a kind of social convergence for experienced skaters along the strip (JFK) with skate dancing, slaloming, etc. In contrast to this relatively 'new' development, Golden Gate Park is a very old park and historical buildings and landmarks are everywhere.
		Of all the great open fields in Golden Gate Park, the largest is the central Polo Field meadow bounded by JFK and Middle Dr. It is followed closely by Big Rec Ball Field although weekends will occupy much of the field with ball games as this field supports two baseball diamonds.
	www.josephstubbscreations.com /Home2/sf/sfparks/ggpark/ggpark.html (3456 words)

	Early History of Golden Gate Park
		The park was the outgrowth of the city's legal fight to establish its title to the four square leagues (17,000 acres) orignally granted it under Mexican law, called the Outside Lands, and settled by squatters.
		The first Park commissioners appointed William Hammond Hall to survey and prepare maps of the park area, and he was appointed the first Park Superintendent August 14, 1871.
		Hall can still be seen and felt in Golden Gate Park because he deliberately designed roads and pathways with curves and bends to discourage fast horse-and-buggy drivers, and to shelter visitors from the wind.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist2/ggpark.html (254 words)

	Golden Gate Park - Detailed Visitor Review Guide
		The Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park is like a trip to the rainforest filled with exotic flowers and orchids.
		The park, located in the western area of the city includes several great museums, including a science museum, an art museum, a botanical garden, and an arboretum.
		Golden Gate Park is bounded by the Sunset District neighborhood to the South, and the Richmond District neighborhood to the North.
	www.sftravel.com /ggpark.html (580 words)

	The History of Golden Gate Park
		The Golden Gate Park was actually California's first state park, established in 1870.
		Initially the Park was gated and closed at sunset.
		Citizens patitioned the Commission to leave the Park open evenings and the resolution for a time was to open the Park on moonlit nights only.
	www.sfpix.com /park/history (105 words)

	San Francisco Neighborhoods: Golden Gate Park
		Golden Gate Park -- the ultimate haven away from urban chaos -- was deeded
		Though the park has seen changes over the years, what remains today is a testament to the will of the city to preserve a place to play, relax and grow culturally.
		Parking: The Music Concourse Garage is open 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
	www.sfgate.com /traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/ggpark.shtml (2843 words)

	Golden Gate Park
		Download the de Young Museum's misleading letter to its members - claiming JFK is needed for parking (despite their brand new 800 car garage, which sits nearly empty on weekends), and the bald-faced lie that Healthy Saturdays limits access to disabled park users.
		Golden Gate Park is indisputably the crown jewel of San Francisco's urban park system.
		It is important to the livability of the entire City that Golden Gate Park fulfills its mission.
	www.sfbike.org /?ggp (1756 words)

	GoCityKids San Francisco \| Golden Gate Park
		Also in the park is the Japanese Tea Garden, Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, the California Academy of Sciences, and the M.H. de Young Museum (now closed and being rebuilt).
		This park is best experienced over a period of time; relish the fact that you can't do it all in one day.
		It was a beautiful park, and we all enjoyed the children's playground and the carousel.
	www.gocitykids.com /browse/attraction.jsp?id=276 (582 words)

	SFGov: Visitors: Golden Gate Park
		Golden Gate Park, one of the largest man-made parks in the world, was developed on a site consisting mostly of sand dunes.
		Golden Gate Park became the great love of his life and he was to devote the next fifty years to its development.
		Under his guidance, Golden Gate Park came to maturity and remains as a monument to his skill in landscape design and his love of nature.
	sfgov.org /site/visitor_index.asp?id=8089 (591 words)

	San Francisco Guide - San Francisco Bay Area Parks
		Encompassing 1,017 acres, the Park, three miles long and a half mile wide, is located on the city's central west side and sits between the Richmond and Sunset Districts.
		The National AIDS Memorial Grove is located in the eastern end of the park, north of the bowling greens and west of the tennis courts.
		Suggested trail parking in the Presidio is at Inspiration Point, near the south end of the trail, and at Battery East parking lot, near the north end.
	www.sfguide.com /sports/parks.htm (1118 words)

	Golden Gate Park
		Droves of people skated in Golden Gate Park, where the land was flat and the skating was easy.
		People exercised, were invigorated, edified by being out in Golden Gate Park, where the Arboretum and the Museum and the Academy of Science are.
		Stay to your right, park anywhere, and skate the last block or two to the barricades the SFPD puts up on Sunday at the intersection of Transverse Drive and John F. Kennedy Drive.
	www.frogojt.com /GGPark.html (1568 words)

	Golden Gate Highlands National Park - Official Site - Hiking Trail, Game viewing, Horse riding
		Nestled in the rolling foothills of the Maluti Mountains of the north eastern Free State lies the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.
		The park derives its name from the brilliant shades of gold cast by the sun on the park's sandstone cliffs, especially the imposing Brandwag rock, keeping vigil over the main rest camp.
		Ribbokkop, the highest point in the park, reveals a breathtaking tapestry of red, yellow and purple hues as its warm shades merge with the cool mountain shadows towards evening.
	www.sanparks.org /parks/golden_gate (181 words)

	Golden Gate Park
		Golden Gate Park on Sunday afternoon is everything a big city park should be.
		Golden Gate Park was mentioned in "Juggler's World" in the meetings section.
		In those days, the infamous Ho Chi Minh Park in Berkeley was a favorite haunt for all kinds of avant garde talent.
	www.juggling.org /jw/86/4/sfpark.html (1077 words)

	Golden Gate Park San Francisco Pictures and History
		Golden Gate Park is bigger than New York’s Central Park, and has over one million trees, nine lakes, several fly casting pools and a lily pond within its borders.
		The park was designed by William Hammond Hall, who was hired to prepare a survey and topographic map of the Golden Gate Park site in 1870.
		McLaren Lodge – a Moorish-Gothic style building originally designed to be both home and office of the Golden Gate Park Superintendent – serves as the headquarters for the Recreation and Parks Department and as the home base for Friends of Recreation and Parks.
	www.inetours.com /Pages/SFNbrhds/Golden_Gate_Park.html (762 words)

	Campaign to Save the Golden Gate Park Windmills
		John McLaren, together with Park Commissioners Adolph B. Spreckles and Reuben Lloyd, convinced the Recreation and Park Commission to build a windmill 300 yards from the ocean.
		In addition to his regular duties of maintaining the mill and positioning it into the wind, the caretaker planted a garden to raise vegetables for the animals in Golden Gate Park’s Menagerie.
		A citizen group, spearheaded by Friends of Recreation and Parks, raised $8 million to initiate renovation of the west-end of Golden Gate Park.
	www.goldengateparkwindmills.org /history/index.html (614 words)

	San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau
		The park's trove of attractions includes Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, a "living library" where 6,000 plant species, including a stunning display of California redwoods, flourish.
		Each spring endows the park with a new cast of floral favorites: flowering cherry blossoms in the Japanese Tea Garden, a five-acre legacy from the 1894 Midwinter International Exposition; lush magenta colored rhododendrons; and more than 14,000 tulips and daffodils near the Dutch Windmill.
		Free guided walking tours of Golden Gate Park are conducted by Friends of Recreation and Parks, 415-263-0991.
	www.sfvisitor.org /visitorinfo/html/GoldenGatePark.html (206 words)

	Golden Gate Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park.
		He lived in McLaren Lodge in Golden Gate Park until he died at age 90, in 1943.
		The portion east of the 19th Avenue park crossing is closed to motor traffic on Sundays and holidays, providing a popular oasis for pedestrians, bicyclists, and skaters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_Gate_Park (1659 words)

	Visual Golden Gate Park
		Golden Gate Park is over 3 miles long and 9 blocks wide.
		This site will provide a way to investigate areas of the park that might otherwise go unnoticed, and then explored in person when time permits.
		This material may not be sampled, duplicated, reproduced, redistributed or re-transmitted in any form without the written permission of David Gardner or his agents.
	www.lightight.com /GGP/GGPmain.html (197 words)

	Golden Gate National Recreation Area - Areaparks.com
		The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is one of the largest urban national parks in the world.
		The total park area is 75,398 acres of land and water.
		One of the nation's most highly visited National Park Service units, Golden Gate NRA comprises numerous sites, including Alcatraz, Marin Headlands, Nike Missile Site, Fort Mason, as well as Muir Woods National Monument, Fort Point National Historic Site, and the Presidio of San Francisco.
	goldengate.areaparks.com (210 words)

	Golden Gate Park
		Most visitors to Golden Gate Park today have no idea that the park began life as barren windswept sand dunes.
		Stow Lake in the center of the park is the perfect place for strolling, picnicking, or touring the small lake in a rented rowboat, motorboat, or paddleboat.
		Out at the very western end of the park are two windmills once used to pump water for irrigating the park.
	www.sallys-place.com /travel/san_francisco/pt_cgpark.htm (620 words)

	Welcome to www.goldengatetrailerpark.com!
		Located on Hiway 101 north of the Golden Gate Bridge, it is conveinient to all the San Francisco Bay Area attractions and close to the ferry terminal and bus routes.
		Adjacent to the park are paths and trails and the wildlife preserve lagoon.
		Take the photo tour of the park and the area to see some of the things which are available.
	www.goldengatetrailerpark.com (132 words)

	Golden Gate Park by Blazing Saddles
		The ride to Golden Gate Park is actually a tour of three parks via the Bay Trail.
		Once inside the Presidio Park bear right to get to the optional gravel bike trail which runs on the edge of San Francisco Bay - this will take you to the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Exit the park near The Conservatory of flowers on Arguello Blvd., this busy road will calm after it crosses Geary Blvd. and take you to the Presidio again to return to Blazing Saddles and the waterfront.
	www.bikeroute.com /BlazingGGParkDir.html (670 words)

	San Francisco:Golden Gate Park Photos
		One source I found said that Golden Gate Park is the largest urban park in the U.S. (yes even bigger than Central Park in N.Y. Golden Gate Park sits in the western part of San Francisco.
		It is on the western end of the park right by the beach.
		I do know it started out life as the changing rooms for park visitors who chose to swim in the near by ocean (or to visit the near by beach) The outside is of a neoclasical design.
	home.comcast.net /~vagabondtraveler/photos/goldenpark (351 words)

	Golden Gate Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This full-size recently-restored Dutch Windmill is one of two windmill structures found in the park near the park's ocean front and the
		Sunday in the Park with Children cannot be fully enjoyed without spending some time on the various slides and swings this play area offers.
		Buffalo in the park have been long-term urban residents.
	www.sealrockinn.com /ggpark.html (194 words)

	National Carousel Associaion - Golden Gate Park Carousel
		Built between 1912 and 1914, the Golden Gate Park Carousel is one of only two surviving four-row carousels by Herschell-Spillman.
		(The other is in Tilden Park, Berkeley.) Before arriving in Golden Gate Park in 1940, it operated at Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, 1914-1931; Lotus Isle, Portland, 1931-1933; and the Golden Gate International Exposition (World's Fair) on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, 1939-1940.
		Major articles on the carousel and its restoration are "Ride a Painted Pony," by Lisa Schmidt, in Golden State magazine, Autumn 1984; and "Wonderful Carousel Spins Again," by Allan Temko, in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 1984.
	www.nca-usa.org /psp/GoldenGate (418 words)

	Golden Gate Park Tennis Club - GGTC - San Francisco, CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Dear Friends of Golden Gate Park Tennis Courts, Golden Gate Tennis Club is happy to announce that Saturday, December 2nd from 9am - 12pm will be the next Clean-Up Day of the Golden Gate Park Tennis Courts.
		The meeting agenda will cover the latest news regarding the Golden Gate Park renovation project, the Save the San Francisco Tennis Club campaign, the Friends of Golden Gateway Tennis and Swim Club efforts, and the Golden Gate Tennis Club's Clean Up Day for the Golden Gate Park Tennis Courts on December 2nd.
		In cooperative efforts with the Department of Recreation and Park, Golden Gate Tennis Club is sponsoring an ongoing Food Drive.
	www.goldengatetennisclub.org (529 words)

	Golden Gate National Park, Free State, South Africa
		Golden Gate Highlands National Park Free State National Parks and Game Reserves in the Free State
		Cool highveld summers with the possibility of thunderstorms in the afternoon and cold winters with occasional snow transforming the park into a white wonderland.
		With 20 National Parks (including two of the world's most famous wildlife reserves, the Kruger Park and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park) and numerous private game reserves, your trip to South Africa would be incomplete without experiencing a South African wildlife safari....
	www.sa-venues.com /game-reserves/fs_goldengate.htm (321 words)

	Golden Gate Park Pictures
		The park is 1,017 acres and is surrounded by the following streets: Fulton to the north, Stanyan to the east, Lincoln to the south and Great Highway (Pacific Ocean) to the west.
		A diverse and beautiful park, it has two large museums, a Japanese Tea Garden, conservatory, botanical and other gardens, lakes, islands, buffalo paddock, windmill, Chinese Pavillion and numerous ballfields.
		Small foot bridge and the Golden Gate Pavillion, from Taipei, Taiwan.
	www.worldfromtheweb.com /Parks/GoldenGate/GoldenGate.html (280 words)

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