It's a beautiful day in The City. Get outside and check out The City's newest park, a six-acre urban oasis on the Presidio’s northern tip.
People walk around Battery Bluffs, a new six-acre park centered around historic gun batteries that haven’t been publicly accessible since the 1930s, in the Presidio on Friday, April 22, 2022.
Battery Bluff is the first of two Presidio parks to open this year, with the long-anticipated Tunnel Tops project slated to welcome visitors later this summer. Taken together, the entire project will restore 50 acres of Presidio parkland and marks a milestone in a decades-long effort to replace the seismically unsafe Doyle Drive with Presidio Parkway.
Replete with 60,000 new plantings, picnic tables, long promenades and historic gun batteries that haven’t been publicly accessible since the 1930s, Battery Bluff also represents how city agencies are working to expand greenspace and reconnect natural corridors in a crowded city with little room to grow.
What is now Presidio Parkway was initially built in 1936 to link the Presidio military base to the Golden Gate Bridge. The snaking Doyle Drive added more concrete to an already paved coastline near Crissy Field.
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