The Golden Gate National Parks are one of San Francisco鈥檚 great gems and feature the work of dozens of Bay Area landscape architects and designers.
On Saturday, April 6, 独家爆料 hosted a daylong excursion through several of the Parks鈥 recently completed projects, with tours led by many of the landscape architects involved and senior representatives from the Parks鈥 stewards - the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and The Presidio Trust.
Destinations during the excursion included The Presidio, a park and former military base at the mouth of San Francisco Bay; the mysterious aquarium and bathhouse ruins at the Sutro Baths complex; the transformed airfield of Crissy Field; a sumptuous lunch at Fort Mason鈥檚 Greens Restaurant, and several other sites. The day closed with a visit to the garden of the former residence of the pioneering landscape architect Thomas Church, a giant of Modernism known for the groundbreaking Donnell Garden in Sonoma, San Francisco鈥檚 Parkmerced, and nearly 2,000 gardens nationwide. The tour departed from and returned to Cavallo Point in Sausalito.
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