Larger than New York’s Central Park, and filled with lakes, bison, more than one million trees and on average 75,000 visitors on weekends, Golden Gate Park is San Francisco’s green lungs. Its fields were once the playground of hippies and witnessed the mourning of Grateful Dead lead Jerry Garcia heavy with marijuana smoke. Today this green space is more likely to host impromptu sporting events than hippie carnivals. Whether golf, rowing, or rock climbing you are sure to find a spot in the park for your sport of choice. It’s great fun to bike of roller blade through the park stopping by the Japanese Tea Gardens –whose head once invented the fortune cookie– the artificial waterfalls, “Lindy in the Park” –where every Sunday Swing dancers congregate to dance up a storm– or the Conservatory of Flowers, a Victorian-style hot house.
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