Golden Gate Park Tickets

Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California is an urban park for public which has been designed as a rectangle. Golden Gate Park attracts 13 million visitors every year. It is the third most visited city park in USA and its history goes back to the 1860s when the locals envisaged the need for a public park that. Golden Gate Park was developed out of sand dunes then. The park was basically meant for recreation but the main reason for its creation was to gather housing development to achieve expansion of the city.

Golden Gate Park lies beside Haight Ashbury. The park regularly has events held here with large public gatherings. A large event held annually here has been the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival which started in 2001. It is a free festival held in October. Let us look at the features of the park. Kezar Stadium developed in the southeast corner of the park hosts various athletic competitions. The San Francisco 49ers of the AAFC registered it as their home stadium till 1970. The stadium was renovated in 1989 with an overall change. A modern stadium with close to 1000 seats was set up in place of old building. Games like soccer, lacrosse and track & field are held here. It also acts as the host of the annual city high school football championship.

The Conservatory of Flowers is yet another attraction erected at Golden Gate Park which was inaugurated in 1879. It is one of the world's largest conservatories that is constructed out of traditional wood and glass panes. A group of San Franciscans presented it to the city after buying it. In 1883, a boiler exploded and the main dome caught fire. It met with some damage in 1883 when a boiler exploded and the dome caught fire. Later on, it was restored to its original shape. Earthquakes in 1906 and 1918 were further hindrances faced by it. After facing other damages over the years, it was ultimately opened in September 2003.

Next we have AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park that has in picture since 1988. In 1996, it became an associated area of the National Park System. It receives no federal money and is connected with the fight over the controversy of AIDS. The Music Concourse is an open air plaza whose focal point is the Spreckels Temple of Music. Statues of various historic figures are included in it. It has undergone many improvement measures like constructing a 800- car parking garage. De Young Museum is also one of the attractions here which opened in January 1921. The Young building was totally refurbished in 2005.

Golden Gate Park has been the chosen venue for several movies. Two of Charlie Chaplin's movies were filmed here in 1915. Apart from that, a scene in Orson Welles movie "The Lady from Shanghai" was filmed in the Steinhart Aquarium in the old California Academy of Sciences building.

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