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At Baker Beach, on a Tuesday morning in March of last year, a carved heart-shaped stone washed up near the waterline and sat there long enough for someone to almost walk past it.
By Casey Wong, Neighborhoods · May 30, 2026
At the western edge of Baker Beach, where the sand drops off and the shorebreak hits without much warning, the lifeguards pulled a second person from…
Details are still coming in on exact timing, but Fort Point Beer Co.
At Tunnel Tops in the Presidio, the Native Intertribal Dance and Food Fest brings together dancers, drummers, and vendors for a full afternoon of…
The Presidio hosts Brewfest 2026, a craft beer festival set inside one of the more scenic chunks of federal parkland in the city.
At Tunnel Tops, the stretch of parkland that opened above the Presidio's battery tunnels in 2022, construction crews have been working on the…
The Presidio's most unusual drinking spot is tucked inside a converted vintage Volkswagen on the grounds — a small-footprint bar that's easy to miss…
On the grass at Tunnel Tops Park, somewhere between the swing sets and the overlook where the bay opens up wide and flat to the north, someone set…
Below the west anchorage of the Golden Gate, where the cliffs drop steeply through cypress and ice plant to a thin strip of sand, Marshall Beach sits…
Sunday, May 27, the Golden Gate Bridge marks its 89th anniversary — opened in 1937, still the walk.
Monday, Memorial Day, Baker Beach opens at sunrise and stays free all day — no permits, no wristbands, no ticketing.
Any day, dawn to dusk, Marshall Beach in the Presidio gives you a full-frame shot of the Golden Gate Bridge from the waterline — towers, cables…
Tuesday at 10:30am, a loose recurring hiking group meets at the Presidio for a trail walk aimed at people between jobs.
If you need a reminder that San Francisco is still one of the most spectacular cities on Earth — despite the budget deficits, the bureaucratic bloat…
Here's something you don't hear often enough in a city that charges $18 for avocado toast: some of the best stuff in San Francisco is completely free.
Here's something that might actually make you feel good about how a piece of public land is managed: the PresidiGo shuttle runs from downtown San…
The Trump administration has restacked the Presidio Trust board with a roster heavy on tech-world connections, mega-donor ties, and — let's be honest…
The White House just named six new members to the Presidio Trust Board of Directors, and the lineup reads like a who's-who of Bay Area wealth and…
Here's something refreshing in a city where everything seems to cost more than it should: Baker Beach at sunset remains absolutely, gloriously free.
There's a 1964 photo of Crissy Field floating around that's worth a double-take.
If you were out and about around 10 PM last night and happened to glance skyward near the Presidio, you might have caught something unusual — a…
Few things in San Francisco bring people together without a city budget line item, a task force, or a three-year environmental review — but a good…
There's a photograph from 1947 — a bridge painter perched on the Golden Gate, captured by the legendary Fred Lyon — that's been making the rounds…
There are exactly two things San Francisco does effortlessly well: charging you too much for a one-bedroom and looking absolutely stunning when it…
Happy belated May the Fourth, San Francisco.
If you've lived in San Francisco for any length of time and haven't wandered through the Lucasfilm campus at One Letterman Drive in the Presidio…
Happy May the 4th, San Francisco. While the city grapples with budget deficits, homeless encampments, and a transit system that runs on prayers and…
Friday night at Presidio Tunnel Tops, one of the most gorgeous outdoor spots in the city, Kesha showed up for a surprise pop-up concert — and if you…
In what might be the most unexpected development in San Francisco real estate since someone actually wanted to move here, pop star Kesha played a…
Before the Presidio became a national park dotted with luxury housing and a George Lucas campus, it was a working military post — and at its heart…
Look, we spend most of our waking hours in this city arguing about bus lanes, doom-scrolling through Board of Supervisors meeting clips, and…
There are exactly zero line items in San Francisco's $14.6 billion budget that can compete with what the Golden Gate Bridge delivers every evening…
Spring has arrived in San Francisco, and the Pride of Madeira is blooming across the Presidio's hillsides — those towering purple spikes framing the…
While City Hall burns through billions on programs that don't deliver and transit systems that can't keep a schedule, there's one San Francisco…
There's a reason the Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most photographed structures on Earth — and right now, with the spring blooms in full swing…
A Native American tribe is asking the Trump administration to hand over the Presidio — yes, the entire 1,500-acre national park sitting on some of…
If you've wandered down to Baker Beach recently and thought the shoreline looked like the aftermath of a very questionable beach party, you're not…
In a city where $18 toast is considered a cultural institution, it makes perfect sense that San Francisco would host an event celebrating the…
In a city where we spend most of our editorial energy tracking budget overruns, bureaucratic dysfunction, and the latest creative ways City Hall…
There's a particular kind of magic that happens at Fort Point that no city program funded, no committee approved, and no supervisor took credit for.
Look up. No, seriously — look up. If you were anywhere near the Golden Gate Bridge recently, you might have noticed something straight out of a 1930s…
The Presidio is one of San Francisco's crown jewels — 1,500 acres of stunning coastline, historic military architecture, hiking trails, and open…
Roger Stone — Nixon tattoo enthusiast, perennial political provocateur, and now apparently a lobbyist for Bay Area land deals — is pushing to…
The Trump administration recently gutted the Presidio Trust's leadership, and San Franciscans are understandably on edge.
The Presidio YMCA is gearing up for its Trail Run & Healthy Kids Day Fair in 2026.
Here's a fun thought experiment: What if public transit was free, reliable, and didn't require a $35 billion bond measure to exist?
The Golden Gate Bridge at sunset remains, without exaggeration, one of the most photographed scenes on the planet.
Look, we spend most of our time here covering the ways San Francisco finds new and creative methods to tax, regulate, and generally suck the joy out…
San Francisco pulled off something remarkable this Sunday: it was actually sunny.
Sometimes the best things in San Francisco are the ones the city government had absolutely nothing to do with.
Here's something City Hall can't tax, regulate, or screw up: surfers catching waves under the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset.
Sometimes you need a break from writing about budget deficits and bureaucratic incompetence to acknowledge a simple truth: San Francisco, when it…
Nestled in the Presidio, overlooking the Golden Gate, sits a place that doesn't ask for your Instagram likes.
The White House just fired all six Biden-appointed members of the Presidio Trust board, the federal body that manages San Francisco's 1,500-acre…
Sometimes the best editorial we can write is the simplest one: go outside.
Another weekend, another community cleanup at Crissy Field — one of San Francisco's most iconic stretches of waterfront, and apparently one that…
The Presidio Tunnel Tops — that gorgeous park built on top of the Presidio Parkway tunnels that's become one of SF's most popular green spaces — is…
Somewhere near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center, a stuffed tortoise sits alone — separated from his best friend, a young boy who dropped him…
Say what you will about San Francisco — the budget bloat, the bureaucratic maze, the $1.7 million public toilets — but this city produces one thing…