San Francisco, the much-maligned Pacific port city, the “Gateway to the Golden West”, is as famous for its stunning natural setting as it is for its exciting nightlife, relentless commerce and interesting inhabitants. Covering 42 square miles of steep hills & coastal valleys, sand & fog, this city of 800.000 on the tip of a peninsula has over 40 miles of coastline, stretching along the Pacific Ocean, the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay/Harbor.

Included here is an official map & guide for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which covers 82,000 acres of public land in San Francisco and the neighboring counties of San Mateo and Marin (including the old army bases of Fort Funston and the Presidio in San Francisco, and the Marin Headlands on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge) (from the US Department of the Interior/National Park Service, 1993); a map & guide to San Francisco’s Pacific Shore, from Fort Funston in the south, to the Golden Gate in the north (from Golden Gate National Parks Association, circa 2000); and an official map & guide to San Francisco’s municipal parks (including the Presidio, Lincoln Park, McLaren Park, Glen Canyon, Mount Davidson, Candlestick Point, Stern Grove, Lake Merced/San Francisco Zoo, and, the grandaddy of 'em all, Golden Gate Park) (from San Francisco Recreation & Park Department, 2006).