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A park with many delightful, ideosyncratic hand-carved sculptures by a long-time park gardener. A good place to bring and enjoy take-out from eateries in the vicinity of Geneva Avenue and Mission Street. Well off the typical tourist path but quite moving.
Cayuga Park is a neighborhood park and playground in San Francisco, at the edge of the Cayuga Terrace neighborhood. Its history, location and aesthetics make it unique among the parks of San Francisco.
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At 317 acres (128 hectares), this is the second largest park in San Francisco, and is located smack dab in Visitacion Valley. It has been cleaned up, but this park is still under used. With rolling hills and views galore, this is the best place in the city to get away from it. If you have a dog, bring it to the reservoir on Shelley Drive where there is a large off-leash area where your pet can romp in the fields or swim in the water. There is an amphitheater, a duck pond, multiple playgrounds, some great hiking trails, and a few tennis courts.
Concerts, ice shows and the Grand National Rodeo (Owned by the City and County of San Francisco, but on the Daly City side of Geneva Avenue).
Overlooking Candlestick Park, this park has great panoramic views of the bay, however it's not one of San Francisco's better maintained parks.
A wooden structure built in 1888 and now used as a community meeting center.
Right on the Bay is this actually very nice and undervisited park. It's very green, actually has functioning benches and BBQ pits, and a small fishing pier. You are also likely to spot windsurfers who come to this windy spot on the Bay.
The (nearly) twistiest street in America, a less known version of Lombard Street between Leavenworth and Hyde in Russian Hill.