At the point when San Franciscans allude to 'the recreation center,' just a single gets the unmistakable article: Golden Gate Park. Everything San Franciscans hold dear is here: free spirits, free music, redwoods, Frisbee, challenges, compelling artwork, bonsai and bison. Because of SF's otherworldly microclimates and common erraticism, the recreation center is loaded with vegetation from around the globe and exceptional sights, including the de Young Museum, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Botanical Garden, Japanese Tea Garden, Conservatory of Flowers and Stow Lake.
Today you can cover over 150 years of SF history with a walk around the recreation center's eastern end. By the terrifically exquisite Victorian Conservatory of Flowers, the small Dahlia Garden is spikier than a SF mosh pit – and simply tough are the reestablished 1926 workmanship deco Horseshoe Pits. West of Hippie Hill drum hovers on Sharon Meadow are the unobtrusively curious Lawn Bowling Club and the pensive valley of the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Since 1887, the recreation center's southeastern end has facilitated the city's greatest kids' play area, finish with 1912 merry go round and 1970s solid slides.
Close ninth Ave are unforeseen discovers: Druid sacred places in Monarch Bear Grove behind the baseball field, the remnants of a Spanish religious community in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and the Shakespeare Garden accumulation of 200 plants specified in Shakespeare's works. Sundays, when John F Kennedy Dr closes to activity around ninth Ave, there's roller disco and free lindy-jumping lessons in the recreation center.
West around Martin Luther King Jr Dr are the Polo Fields, where the 1967 Human Be-In occurred and free shows are as yet held amid Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. At the recreation center's wild western edge, buffalo rush impetuously in the Buffalo Paddock toward windmills and Ocean Beach nightfalls.
