Lands End (San Francisco)

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Lands End with the Cliff House and the ruins of the Sutro Baths
Lands End is just south of the Golden Gate entrance

Lands End is a park in San Francisco within the large Golden Gate National Recreation Area .

description

The coastline at the mouth of the Golden Gate is rocky and windy. Lands End is located between the Sutro District , Lincoln Park and the adjacent Fort Miley Military Reservation .

In the park is a memorial to the USS San Francisco warship . Numerous walking routes follow the former rails of the Ferries and Cliff House railways along the cliffs and down to the coast.

The most traveled route in Lands End is the Coastal Trail , a section of the California Coastal Trail that also follows the tracks of the old Cliff House railways. This route is barrier-free up to the Mile Rock Overlook and bicycle-friendly up to the Eagles Point steps. A siding leads to Mile Rock Point and Mile Rock Beach , two viewpoints over the Golden Gate .

Also at Lands End are the ruins of the Sutro Baths . Other historic locations are home to numerous shipwrecks that can be seen from the Coastal Trail and Mile Rock at low tide .

On April 28, 2012, a visitor center and museum called Lands End Lookout opened at the park.

history

The Yelamu-Ohlone Indian tribe lived on Lands End before Spanish colonization began in 1776. After the California gold rush , entrepreneurs redesigned the new Cliff House as a fashionable resort for the rich. A private company built a new street called Point Lobos Avenue . Until the 1860s, there was a horse-drawn stagecoach that drove from crowded downtown San Francisco to Lands End every Sunday. During the 1880s, millionaire Adolph Sutro built a passenger steam train line from the center to Lands End for the affordable fare of 5 cents .

labyrinth

The Hidden Labyrinth at Eagles Point

Located on the coast at Eagles Point one by local artist Eduardo Aguilera built "hidden Labyrinth" (English: hidden labyrinth ), which faces the Golden Gate. Although the labyrinth was destroyed - presumably by vandals - in August 2015, Aguilera rebuilt it a month later with the help of 50 volunteers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lands End Lookout Visitor Center . National park service. Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ Lands End History . National Park Service. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Lands End labyrinth destroyed by vandalism .
  4. Jump up ↑ Labyrinth lovers unite to undo vandalism at Lands End .