Golden Gate Park

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.

The zoo has been losing tens of thousands of dollars a day, due to the non-negotiable cost of feeding and caring for its 2,000 animals.

With the bike lane delayed, advocates say the Panhandle path is "crowded and unsafe," and makes social distancing impossible.

A stretch of JFK has now been closed to cars for two months. Advocates are hoping to seize the opportunity to make the change permanent.

To keep interest alive, Outside Lands has already announced its 2021 lineup, with tickets on sale starting tomorrow.

The victim was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and died in the hospital.

The news is welcome to neighbors, whose streets were overwhelmed in recent weeks with beachgoers seeking parking.

Officials say the cyclist was "doored" by a parked car, then struck by an oncoming vehicle.

Now permitted to operate at a fourth of its normal capacity, the garden is seeking donations to support a $1 million revenue shortfall from the closure.

The city's parks and real estate departments have two weeks to identify land where homeless people can camp at a social distance.

As Mayor Breed continues to defy hotel room legislation, many city supervisors are hunting for vacant properties to use as tent camps.