Golden Gate Park

San Francisco's 1,000-acre urban green space/World Landmarks

Golden Gate Park in San Francisco stretches from the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to the Pacific Ocean, covering 1,017 acres (412 hectares) of carefully landscaped terrain. Designed by William Hammond Hall and later developed by John McLaren, the park is 20% larger than New York's Central Park. It contains a bison paddock, a Japanese tea garden, two windmill-powered irrigation systems, several museums (including the de Young and California Academy of Sciences), and an estimated 150,000 trees.