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Lincoln Park Review
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Lincoln Park
- Address: Entrance at 34th Ave. at Clement St., Outer Richmond, San Francisco, CA | Map It
- Category: Parks
- Location: Outer Richmond
Fodor's Review:
Although many of the city's green spaces are gentle and welcoming, Lincoln Park is a wild, 275-acre park with windswept cliffs and sweeping views. The most dramatic trail leads out to Land's End; it starts west of the Legion of Honor, at the end of El Camino del Mar. Do be careful if you hike here; landslides are frequent, and many people have fallen into the sea by standing too close to the edge of a crumbling bluff top.
On the tamer side, large Monterey cypresses line the fairways at Lincoln Park's 18-hole golf course, near the Legion of Honor. At one time this land was the Golden Gate Cemetery, where the dead were segregated by nationality; most were indigent and interred without ceremony in the potter's field. In 1900, the Board of Supervisors voted to ban burials within city limits, and all but two city cemeteries (at Mission Dolores and the Presidio) were moved to Colma, a small town just south of San Francisco. When digging has to be done in the park, bones occasionally surface again.
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