Golden Gate Park

A new dispensary at Irving Street and Ninth Avenue has the distinction of being SF’s closest pot shop to Golden Gate Park, and Solful has just opened, and is recognizable with its fresh green coat of paint.

Not even a chilly fog could dampen spirits as the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival made its return to Golden Gate Park over the weekend after a pandemic-driven hiatus.

Car-free JFK Drive may not be car-free much longer, as a pushback campaign is taking the issue to voters. But the pro-car campaign called “Access for All” is funded by just one person.

A 93-foot roller skating-themed mural is being painted on the surface of the park’s famed Skatin’ Place area, and a slew of new pictures and videos show its progress.

Mayor Breed sounded less than thrilled that 4/20 is around the corner in a Monday press conference on the topic, and laid out the new rules now that there will be legal cannabis sales that day in Golden Gate Park.

Kids can get down and dirty while connecting with nature at a new, outdoor play area that just opened at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

In a theatrical performance at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Connie Chan made hay over her car-free JFK Drive proposal, and the mayor called Chan’s comments ”not a responsible way” to decide the matter.

A 93-foot ground mural is slated to be painted on the park’s Sixth Avenue Skatin’ Place, thanks to community efforts by none other than the Church of 8 Wheels.

Bask in a double-dose of holiday glow in Golden Gate Park Thursday, as the LED forest Entwined and San Francisco’s “official Christmas tree” both have their official lightings one hour apart.

Plans to build affordable housing at the troubled ex-McDonald’s are still on, though much delayed, but the city just scrapped plans to put a homeless drop-in center there during the interim.

Artist Charles Gadeken’s fake trees with real pretty lights will be back in Peacock Meadow in December, and will remain glowing through January 2022.

The popular al fresco piano concert series returns as a shorter five-day affair, but still with many key figures from the local jazz, classical, and pop music scenes.

Half of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park has been car-free for nearly a year now, and bike and pedestrians are rallying Saturday to make this arrangement permanent.

The pup-ular Golden Gate Park Dog Training Area sees its first remodel in 60 years at the city’s largest doggie play area.

For the 91st holiday season in a row, the gigantic Monterey cypress tree at Stanyan and Fell Streets still dazzles as San Francisco‘s ‘official’ Christmas tree.

Beginning Dec. 1, Peacock Meadow will be illuminated by 2,000 LEDs that will be entwined within and surrounding three sculptural trees. “Entwined,” as it’s called, is an installation by Bay Area artist Charles Gadeken, and it is part of a small series of activities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Golden Gate Park during the pandemic.

The two museums round out the array of Golden Gate Park institutions finally reopened with special COVID-19 safety accommodations.

With improvements and plantings complete, Rec & Park reopened the Stanyan entrance to Golden Gate Park to the public this month.

Three of the city's most prominent museums are readying to reopen, with one returning next week.

The flower only blooms every 3-5 years, so the Conservatory of Flowers has figured out a socially distant way to show it off.

Rec & Park's landscapers have let the (wood) chips fall where they may — sparking concern for some locals.

It's official: the 20th edition of Hardly Strictly will be moving to the digital sphere.

40 of the Haight's unhoused have found safe shelter at the Stanyan Street tent village. But there appears to be no plan for hundreds of others sleeping on the street.

"It’s happening," District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston wrote on Twitter.

Closed since March 17, the garden will reduce its hours and limit capacity for its reopening.