The lighthouse will be closed until further notice due to a small landslide partially blocking the trail. This closure has been extended to allow staff additional time to remove the slide.
Sloat Blvd. parking lot at Ocean Beach closed starting March 17, 2025
The parking lot will be closed through mid-April as part of a city-managed project. For more information, please see the project page (link below). More
The National Park Service is seeking information from the public to help identify those responsible for recent vandalism and forced entry into the historic SF-88 Nike Missile Site at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Locations:Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Point Reyes National Seashore
Date Released:2025-01-08
Point Reyes National Seashore has announced a Revised Record of Decision for the General Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement (GMPA) for Point Reyes National Seashore and the north district of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The GMPA provides management guidance for the preservation of natural and cultural resources and the management of infrastructure and visitor use in the planning area. The plan also addresses the management of native tule elk and park lands currently leased for ranching.
A new temporary exhibit titled “How We Love Our Parks: Volunteer Photographers of Golden Gate National Recreation Area” at Fort Point showcases the park’s Volunteers-In-Parks Photographers. These talented photographers each have unique insight into the landscapes, history, people, and stories of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This exhibit showcases just a few of over 100,000 images taken by our volunteers.
In commemoration of the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Island by Native American students and activists, a tipi was installed on October 26 through a partnership between the National Park Service, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and several former occupiers and their descendants.
A new National Park Service report shows that the nearly 15 million visitors to Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 2023 spent $1.5 billion in communities near the park. That spending supported 13,150 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2 billion.
A new exhibit on Alcatraz Island showcases the lesser-known inhabitants of the former prison. Birds in a Changing Climate, a multi-media interpretive display created by National Park Service staff, explores the island’s different species of the waterbirds, some of which nest nowhere else in the San Francisco Bay.
The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking your input for the Stinson Beach Parking Lots Rehabilitation Project at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. NPS will host a public meeting on Tuesday, July 23, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Stinson Beach Community Center at 30 Belvedere Avenue, Stinson Beach. You are invited to attend this meeting to learn more and to ask NPS representatives any questions you may have about the project.
The National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy announced today a new public webcam that will allow viewers to watch the growth of four recently hatched peregrine falcon chicks on Alcatraz Island in an exciting opportunity for casual observers and citizen scientists alike.
You’re invited to provide feedback on an environmental assessment of the City of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation project, part of which will take place on National Park Service land.
Fort Barry is located in the Golden Gate Recreation Area in Marin County, California. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is investigating this site under the Defense Environmental Restoration Program for Formerly Used Defense Sites (DERP-FUDS).
The Department of Defense (DOD) encourages community involvement in the environmental restoration process. A Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) is one of many methods the USACE may use to facilitate public participation at a FUDS.
