The 31-year-old Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks wrapped its 2026 run Sunday night. Hundreds of volunteers took more than three hours to fold it up; next appearance: Pride Month 2027.

Hundreds of volunteers spent more than three hours Sunday evening folding up San Francisco's Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks, the giant Pride installation that has overlooked the city every June for 31 years. They finished by 8 p.m. The triangle goes into storage until Pride Month 2027.

The numbers are staggering for something that only exists six weeks a year: each side of the triangle runs 240 feet, and it takes 5,000 heavy-duty steel spikes to anchor the canvas against Bay Area winds — and considerably more time to put it up than to take it down.

Patrick Carney, who co-founded the installation more than three decades ago over a breakfast conversation with a friend, says the symbol carries weight beyond the festival calendar. The inverted pink triangle was used by the Nazis during World War II to identify gay men in concentration camps; it was reclaimed in the 1970s by queer liberation advocates as a counter-symbol of resistance and pride. "Resistance, courage, persistence, empowerment," Carney told NBC Bay Area. "But it started out during the holocaust, and then in the 70s it came back as a symbol of gay liberation and resistance."

Visible from up to 20 miles away on a clear day — and, on most days, plainly from the Castro — the installation is one of the few Pride-adjacent things in SF that asks nothing of the viewer: no ticket, no wristband, no standing in line. Just Twin Peaks doing what it does best.